Tag: Environmental Defenders

For Filipino delegates at COP26, their pursuit for climate justice will continue in their respective campaigns in the coming months

"When I was a child, we could see the bottom of the lake. When I was thirsty, I drank the water from the lake -- we used it for cooking"

The activists met with Church officials to discuss the situation of communities and the need for funding to help victims of climate crisis

Environmental activists claim that a 'river rehabilitation project' in the northern Philippines is actually a black sand mining operation

All are icing on the cake. We cannot eat their empty words. At the end of the day, the people and the planet suffer.

For local youths of Odiongan, the battle against plastic waste pollution is "a mission"

Lawyer Juan Macababbad, vice chairperson of the Union of Peoples’ Lawyers in Mindanao, was shot dead in front of his house

“Companies and governments must be held accountable for the violence and persecution of land and environmental defenders,” said Greenpeace

The Global Witness report ranked the Philippines third overall with 29 killings of environmental defenders in the past year