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Environment defenders’ alliance born

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Environment defenders’ alliance born


By ALDWIN QUITASOL with reports from LARA CARTUJANO
www.nordis.net

BAGUIO CITY — More than 500 anti-mining activists and advocates from different towns of Northern Luzon expressed unity on programs to save the environment and resources together in the first Northern Luzon Mining and Human Rights Summit held from December 13-15 of 2011 at the Quirino Hall, Teachers’ Camp.

On the theme “Defend and preserve our national patrimony against foreign big business plunder! Assert our rights to life, land, culture, food security and development!”, the three-day summit aimed to study the relation of mining projects to the human rights situation in Northern Luzon, vis a vis national and international developments..... MORE

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Jesusa Bernardo said...

mahalaga talagang tingnang maigi at pagusapan itong isyu na ito.

""On the theme “Defend and preserve our national patrimony against foreign big business plunder! Assert our rights to life, land, culture, food security and development!”, the three-day summit aimed to study the relation of mining projects to the human rights situation in Northern Luzon, vis a vis national and international developments."

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