Philippines: Grassroots Push For A New Minerals Management Law

Philippines: Grassroots Push For A New Minerals Management Law With their tambourines and santa suits, about 200 activists coming from mining affected communities, indigenous peoples, church, urban poor organizations and civil society environment groups sang Christmas carols at the south wing gate of the House of Representatives on December 1, 2010 to call for the passage of a new minerals management law. “This bill is the product of years of painstaking consultations and writeshops with...

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