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Campaign Update – Philippines: SLAPP Suit Against Ifugaos In Didipio Dismissed

Date: 09/13/2011

A municipal judge in the Philippines dismissed charges against nine Ifugao Indigenous people who are members of the Didipio Earth Savers Mulitpurpose Association (DESAMA). DESAMA has long claimed that the charges were trumped up in an attempt to intimidate and harass Indigenous people who oppose construction of an OceanaGold mine in their community.  Mine construction has displaced Indigenous landowners and threatens the water supply in this agricultural region.

Campaign Update – Philippines: Indigenous Legislator Introduces Bill to Strengthen Free, Prior, and Informed Consent

Date: 09/12/2011

Citing the documented negative effects of mining operations on indigenous communities, Ifugao Congressman Teddy Brawner Baguilat is pushing for a new mining law that respects and protects the rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Philippines Campaign Update: New Financing Threatens to Re-start Didipio Copper Mine

Date: 04/05/2011

The OceanaGold mining company, which is building a mine in the Philippine community of Didipio, has announced plans to use $140 million from one of its New Zealand operations to restart and speed up construction of the Didipio mine, even as the Philippine Commission on Human Rights has recommended that the government revoke the company's license there. The mine is the subject of Global Response campaign and threatens the Indigenous inhabitants of Didipio and the forests of the mountain.

Human Rights Commission finds OGPI in violation

Date: 01/20/2011

The following letter from Christopher Louie Ocampo, of the Commission on Human Rights, Philippines, was sent to Cultural Survival's campaign partner Jeff Nettleton, of the organization PIPlinks.

Campaign Update: Philippines Human Rights Commission Recommends Mine Closure

Date: 01/17/2011

Cultural Survival is celebrating good news with the Indigenous Peoples of Didipio in the Philippines! The Philippines Human Rights Commission has asked the government to consider cancelling an Australian company’s mining permit because of “gross violations of human rights” that they have committed against

Fighting for Rights in the Philippines

Joan Umaming Carling has been an indigenous rights activist in the Philippines for 20 years, and has been associated with the Cordillera Peoples’ Alliance (CPA), an indigenous organization, for more than 12 years. Thanks in part to her work there has been a growing recognition of indigenous issues in the Philippines, but also a growing repression from the government. In the five years since Gloria Arroyo became president, 115 activists and journalists have been killed by armed men who are widely believed to be working for the government.

Didipio Campaign Update: Indigenous Groups in the Philippines are Hoping New President-Elect Will Make Good on His Campaign Promise

Date: 05/13/2010

Indigenous groups in the Philippines are hoping that president-elect Senator Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III will make good on his campaign promise to investigate illegal mining activities that affect Indigenous communities.

In response to Aquino’s April 26 campaign pledge, Manon Peter Duyapat, Chairperson of Didipio Earth Savers Multi-purpose Association and one of the Indigenous Peoples’ representatives to last year’s United Nations Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UNCERD) summit, said, “We welcome Senator Noynoy’s concern over the devastation brought by mining

Bridging the Gap

During the first United Nations International Decade on the World’s Indigenous People (1995-2004), there were a number of positive developments for the world’s indigenous peoples. Many countries adopted legislation concerning land, resources, culture, language, education, justice, intellectual property rights, and in some instances, legal pluralism, autonomy, and self-governance. In 1989, just before the decade began, the International Labor Organization adopted Convention #169 on indigenous and tribal peoples, and since 1996 the U.N.

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