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Marcos Jr., NTF-ELCAC’s counterinsurgency program endangers workers’lives, rights

Karapatan Press Release –https://groups.google.com/g/karapatan-updates/c/q0lKb4OS00s?pli=1 24 January 2023 The counterinsurgency program that is being implemented by the MarcosJr. administration, which it continues from previous regimes includingthe Duterte government, through the National Task Force to End LocalCommunist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) has resulted in gross violations onthe working people’s right to life and to their freedom of associationand

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Glencore to go into mineral processing in the Philippines

By: Doris Dumlao-Abadilla – Business Features Editor / @philbizwatcher Philippine Daily Inquirer / 07:44 PM January 18, 2023 DAVOS – Glencore, one of the largest and most diversified natural resource companies in the world, is expanding into mineral processing in the Philippines. This was announced by Communications Secretary Cheloy Velicaria-Garafil on Wednesday. “They see the Philippines as a potential

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Glencore to go into mineral processing in the Philippines

By: Doris Dumlao-Abadilla – Business Features Editor / @philbizwatcher Philippine Daily Inquirer / 07:44 PM January 18, 2023 DAVOS – Glencore, one of the largest and most diversified natural resource companies in the world, is expanding into mineral processing in the Philippines. This was announced by Communications Secretary Cheloy Velicaria-Garafil on Wednesday. “They see the Philippines as a potential

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MANIFESTO OF UNITY: STAND WITH SARAH “BESTANG” DEKDEKEN!

Cordillera Peoples AlliancePublic Information CommissionMANIFESTO OF UNITY: STAND WITH SARAH “BESTANG” DEKDEKEN!We, as peace-loving and rights-upholding people, express our support and solidarity for indigenous rights defender Sarah ‘Bestang’ Dekdeken as she faces continuous judicial harassment for her activism and work as the secretary-general of the Cordillera Peoples Alliance.   Bestang was convicted of cyber libel after

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MANIFESTO OF UNITY: STAND WITH SARAH “BESTANG” DEKDEKEN!

Cordillera Peoples AlliancePublic Information CommissionMANIFESTO OF UNITY: STAND WITH SARAH “BESTANG” DEKDEKEN!We, as peace-loving and rights-upholding people, express our support and solidarity for indigenous rights defender Sarah ‘Bestang’ Dekdeken as she faces continuous judicial harassment for her activism and work as the secretary-general of the Cordillera Peoples Alliance.   Bestang was convicted of cyber libel after

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Ailing political prisoner is victim of false arrest, planted evidence

Press Release12 January 2023 Reference:Cristina Palabay, Karapatan secretary general, 0917-3162831Karapatan Public Information Desk, 0918-9790580 Ailing political prisoner is victim of false arrest, planted evidence Human rights alliance Karapatan slammed the continued detention of an ailing political prisoner who was illegally arrested on the basis of a warrant that does not contain his name, planted pieces

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A World of Poets: Ericson Acosta

In celebration of World Poetry Day, all this week we are paying tribute to poets who have been persecuted or imprisoned in violation of their right to free expression. Today we are honouring poet Ericson Acosta, who has been held without trial in the Philippines since February 2011. Ericson Acosta is not only a poet, but

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