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Environmen-tal Defenders Face Trumped-Up Charges.

April 28, 2024 Environmental Defenders Face Trumped-Up Financing Terrorism Charges. Kalikasan PNE and ENVIDEFCON condemn this. In an alarming development, two young human rights defenders from Quezon are now facing trumped-up charges of financing terrorism. Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment and the Environmental Defenders Congress strongly condemns this unjust targeting. Tanggol Quezon Spokesperson Paul […]

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Stop bombing fragile Key Biodiversity Areas! Joint Statement

Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment and Environmental Defenders Congress April 6, 2024 REFERENCE: Danilova Molintas +639602315340 WhatsApp/Viber Stop bombing fragile Key Biodiversity Areas! Ban indiscriminate aerial strikes! Investigate the environmental impacts of military operations! Defend our environment! Defend our people! The Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment and the Environmental Defenders Congress decry the

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Environmental defenders abducted on March 24, released

Subject: Re: Alert: 2 Environmental Defenders in the Philippines abducted Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2024 12:14:59 +0800 From: ‘Jax Bongon’ via IBON International Climate Justice Mailing List <ii-climate-justice@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: jbongon@iboninternational.org Dear friends and comrades, The fact-finding mission team for Eco Dangla III and Jak Tiong, environmental defenders abducted on March 24, released an update saying both individuals

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Environmental defender group amass local and international support to surface and release Eco Dangla and Jak Tiong

PRESS RELEASE March 27, 2024 Environmental defender group amass local and international support to surface and release Eco Dangla and Jak Tiong Contact person: lia@cecphils.org ; 09097273371 As of March 27, 2024 10:10 in the morning, a total of 257 organizations and 416 individuals have signed the petition for the safe and immediate surfacing of our fellow

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UK’s Standard Chartered assailed for financing Philippines coal boom

BankTrack, the Philippines Movement for Climate Justice, Inclusive Development International and Recourse file complaint over Standard Chartered coal financing Manila, February 29, 2024According to the complaint filed with the UK government by BankTrack and partners, on behalf of communities affected by the projects, Standard Chartered violated international guidelines for responsible business conduct by co-financing four coal-fired power plants

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Environmental Defenders Congress Statement

22 February 2024 Dismiss the charges against Jhed and Jonila! Investigate abductions of environmental defenders! Stop the practice of false surrenders! We strongly denounce the persistent injustice and harassment faced by environmental defenders Jhed Tamano and Jonila Castro, aimed at silencing their opposition to projects such as the New Manila International Airport and other reclamation

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International and local groups urge Supreme Court: grant petition of abducted activists Jhed and Jonila

Kalikasan People’s Network for the EnvironmentPRESS RELEASE 5 February 2024 Int’l and local groups urge Supreme Court: grant petition of abducted activists Jhed and Jonila Environmental and human rights groups held a protest action at the Supreme Court and Department of Justice today in support of abducted anti-reclamation activists Jonila Castro and Jhed Tamano, decrying

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