Philippines: Groups Protest Against DENR, Reject Mining Policy

Philippines: Groups Protest Against DENR, Reject Mining Policy   Indigneous peoples shout ‘no to mining our ancestral lands!’   About a hundred protestors held a rally in front of DENR yesterday, demanding that the government stop the entry of large-scale mining in ancestral lands of indigenous peoples. The event coincided with the 4th anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples or UNDRIP.   Indigenous peoples from the Cordillera region, Central Luzon, and the...

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