Tag Archive | Philippines
Bosses were not heard, rights and green groups dismayed for non-inclusion of AMMB in PNoy’s list of priority measures
PRESS RELEASE August 1, 2014 Bosses were not heard, rights and green groups dismayed for non-inclusion of AMMB in PNoy’s list of priority measures Human Rights and environmental defenders are saddened that the legislation of the proposed Alternative Minerals Management Bill (AMMB) that would scrap the Mining Act of 1995 was not included […]
![[Photo] SOS YB’s Placards dance](https://taomunahindimina.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/sos-ammb-tmhm.jpg?w=100&h=75&crop=1 "[Photo] SOS YB’s Placards dance")
[Photo] SOS YB’s Placards dance
Mimicking a “Placards dance” usually seen in Football games ceremony, the group performed their own to creatively deliver to the government and to the public their demands and to reiterate the state of the peoples’ rights and environment in mining affected communities. Photo shot last July 23, 2014 at Mendiola (Legarda-Recto crossings). Photo by Rommel […]
PRESS RELEASE: Green activists and rights groups launch campaign asking PNoy to prioritize peoples’ rights and environment over profit from mining
PRESS RELEASE July 19, 2014 Green activists and rights groups launch campaign asking PNoy to prioritize peoples’ rights and environment over profit from mining A week before President Benigno Aquino’s 4th State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 28, rights groups, environmental activists and advocates intensified their call for PNoy to act decisively on […]
SA SONA: DAPAT TAO MUNA HINDI MINA! DAPAT AMMB ISABATAS NA!
SA SONA: DAPAT TAO MUNA HINDI MINA! DAPAT AMMB ISABATAS NA! Dear friends, We are launching a nationwide letter barrage campaign for the 10 point Human Rights Agenda on Mining, endorsed by different human rights, environmental, indigenous peoples and women’s’ groups and which we aim to reach President Benigno Aquino III, the two Houses of […]
Sample letter to PNoy
DAPAT TAO MUNA HINDI MINA SA SONA DAPAT AMMB ISABATAS NA! Dear friends, We are launching a nationwide letter barrage campaign for the 10 point Human Rights Agenda on Mining, endorsed by different human rights, environmental, indigenous peoples and women’s’ groups and which we aim to reach President Benigno Aquino III, the two Houses of […]
Join us in urging the Philippine government to support the resolution filed by a group of countries led by Ecuador in the UNHRC calling for a legally binding treaty on human rights and transnational corporations
Friends, let’s ask the Philippine government to “once again demonstrate leadership and commitment to human rights at the June 2014 UN Human Rights Council session by showing its support for a resolution that will seek to begin a process of developing an international treaty on business and human rights – the first binding international legal […]
“kalikasan at tao muna – hindi mina.” dahil hindi dapat tubo at kita ang inuuna sa pamamahala
“KALIKASAN AT TAO MUNA – HINDI MINA.” DAHIL HINDI DAPAT TUBO AT KITA ANG INUUNA SA PAMAMAHALA Dear friends, The Task Force Detainees of the Philippines is launching a letter barrage campaign for the 10 point Human Rights Agenda on Mining, endorsed by different human rights, environmental, indigenous peoples and women’s’ groups and which we […]
Groups blame mining companies for killings, HRVs in Tampakan: “Their blood is in your hands!!!” -Tampakan Forum
Tampakan Forum Press Release 8 November 2013 Groups blame mining companies for killings, HRVs in Tampakan: “Their blood is in your hands!!!” Members of the Tampakan Forum blamed the mining investments of Glencore, Xstrata, Indophil and Sagittarius Mines Inc of the Tampakan Gold Copper Project as the root of all human rights violations against indigenous […]
#Remember Rabenio Sungit, Palaw’an tribal leader, IP rights advocate against large-scale mining
#Remember Rabenio Sungit, Palaw’an tribal leader, IP rights advocate against large-scale mining He championed the indigenous rights for ancestral lands against encroachments of large scale mining companies and other environmentally-destructive projects. On September 5, 2011 at around 1:30pm, Rabenio Sungit was shot dead by unidentified motorcycle riding man wearing bonnet using a .45 caliber pistol […]
#Remember Fr Fausto “Pops” Tentorio, PIME, missionary, champion for indigenous peoples and the landless
#Remember Fr Fausto “Pops” Tentorio, PIME, missionary, champion for indigenous peoples and the landless Oct 17, 2011: shot to death between 7:15 – 7:30 am at the garage area in the compound of Mother of Perpetual Help Parish, Arakan Valley, North Cotabato Province. (Source: http://www.justiceforfatherpops.org) He said: “It is clear that it is the military […]
Tao Muna-Hindi Mina! 