We cannot effectively demand a ceasefire in Gaza, in Ukraine, or elsewhere, when even at our doorsteps we cannot insist on one.
The climate crisis, the degradation of our environment, and the plight of vulnerable communities should become front and center issues as we head towards the national elections in May 2022.
This Christmas 2021, we reflect on Jesus’ birth in the aftermath of Typhoon Odette. Our people— our real church—are still in the throes of the typhoon’s destruction.
We remember Zara and the hundreds and thousands, whose most basic and God-given right, the Right to Life, were violated.
Under the proposed law, the ICC/IP shall be paid not more than 2% of the gross output of minerals produced from the ancestral domain
Earlier this month, the Department of Health said that TVI had not yet submitted the required HIA for its planned third coal plant
Global Witness pointed out that “more environmental defenders have been killed in the country than anywhere else in the region over the past 11 years.”
Mainstreaming L&D will likely take years, even decades, given various challenges that also make popularizing climate change difficult
Data from Kalikasan PNE indicates even graver figures, with 21 defenders killed and 11 abductions of 19 defenders reported.