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When courage means being vulnerable
Last Friday, I joined a group of activists in blockading Shell’s refinery at Batangas for more than 10 hours–it was not easy (physically and mentally). For years, I’ve been supporting the…
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Update on the Blockade at Shell
The Greenpeace activists have removed their human-alarm blockade at Shell’s Batangas refinery around 3:00 p.m. yesterday and the climbers have taken down their banner at the site, as the Climate…
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Filipino People’s Climate Justice Declaration
Today, at a time of climate emergency, we, communities and Filipinos from across the country, are raising the alarm for climate justice. Our fundamental rights to life, food, shelter, health…
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Community reps, Greenpeace activists blockade Shell facility in Batangas to call for climate justice
Batangas City, Philippines – Ahead of the coming week’s global mobilizations for the climate, representatives from climate-impacted communities, together with Greenpeace activists, blockaded the entrance to the Batangas refinery of fossil…
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World’s first climate change and human rights liability inquiry nears closure
Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines; 19 September 2019 – The world’s first legal investigation into the responsibility of fossil fuel companies for human rights impacts resulting from climate change is…
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An open letter to Shell
Have you seen this boy? Tarin could have been 9 years old by now, if not for the storm that snatched him away from the arms of his mom. I…
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Live blog: Climate impacted communities stage solo protests at Shell’s headquarters in the Philippines
September 16, 2019, Monday 08:20 AM Joanna Sustento makes her way to the Philippines headquarters of Shell in a bustling financial district in Metro Manila. Walking past her are wage…
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Filipino activist and super typhoon survivor demands Shell to face up to the climate emergency
Taguig City, Metro Manila, Philippines – Ahead of this month’s global climate strikes, climate activist and super-typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) survivor Joanna Sustento[1], started an indefinite lone protest today in front of…
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Greenpeace PH reactive to the recent Statement on Climate Change by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Quezon City – Early this week, United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights Michele Bachelet said of climate change, “The world has never seen a threat to human rights of this…
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We must put an end to modern-day slavery at sea
Every year, on the 23rd of August, the world remembers the slave trade and its abolition. It is a haunting reminder of humanity’s ugly past- of how millions of people…
