Justice for the surfaced environment and human rights defenders Eco and Jak!

March 28, 2024

STATEMENT

The attacks against Eco, Jak and other environmental defenders only serves the interests of big business promoting destructive projects. These undermine the people’s well-being and the environment, exacerbating existing issues.

Marcos Jr admin fails to respect, protect, and fulfill social and economic rights

December 9, 2023

FEATURE

The Marcos Jr government fundamentally fails to respect, protect and fulfil social and economic rights by its insistence on the same anti-people market-driven policies.

Trouble in fishers’ waters

May 4, 2023

Whether or not the government’s rehabilitation efforts will be sufficient to return Laguna de Bay to its former state and capacity as a major source of food, water and livelihood will be tested.

Sibuyan’s reminder: People, not profit, should drive the mining industry

March 3, 2023

As long as pro-people policies are non-existent and unenforced, more communities like Sibuyan will be under the gaze of exploitative mining firms that take advantage of the industry, run it for profit, and leave us with nothing for very little.

Fight Against Climate Injustice

November 18, 2022

The United Nations’ 27th Conference of Parties (COP27) in Sharm-el Sheikh, Egypt is focused on the implementation of each country’s nationally determined contribution towards the prevention of global warming. The Philippines is considered a low emitter compared to other nations, yet it ranks among the most vulnerable to climate-related disasters.

Duterte government’s green smokescreen

November 7, 2021

STATEMENT

At the COP 26, the Duterte administration pledges to cut local carbon emissions and transition to a low-carbon and climate-resilient society according to its Sustainable Finance Roadmap and its Guiding Principles. Yet its mining and energy policies go in the opposite direction and ruin the environment.

Big business plundering the environment

April 22, 2021

Giving traditional Chinese medicine a bad name

April 27, 2020

The Department of Health has recently stated that it is looking into traditional Chinese medicine as a means to treat the country’s over 7,700 COVID-19 patients. However, the government’s attitude towards the otherwise renowned traditional Chinese medicine is closely tied up to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which some researchers say is bad for the environment.

Four years after Yolanda: Better lives for whom?

November 2, 2017

It has been four years since super-typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) struck several provinces in the Eastern Visayas region. After the huge influx of aid, it may be hard to believe but a huge percentage of the survivors still live in temporary shelters, are underserved in terms of social services and public utilities, and are either unemployed […]