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Why are Indonesian fishing crews dying?
With easy access to mobile technology, migrant fishers are able to document their mistreatment and often, evidence of illegal fishing and bycatch, such as shark finning. It’s led to an outpouring of attention and renewed focus on forced labour, human trafficking, and other forms of exploitation that have been commonplace on industrial fishing vessels for…
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Forest Fires Haze: New Greenpeace report reveals alarming health impacts and links to severity of COVID-19
Governments in Southeast Asia have massively downplayed the health impacts of Indonesia’s forest and peatland fires according to a new report released today by Greenpeace Southeast Asia.
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Warning: Omnibus Law is Threatening Indonesia’s Sustainable Investment
Indonesia’s civil society groups sent Investment Warning statements to the international financial institutions and several investor and cooperation countries.
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Greenpeace Philippines on President Duterte’s State of the Nation Address: ‘No mention of coherent policy agenda for recovery and beyond’
The government needs to realize that protecting the environment also means protecting the rights of people and communities--their right to life, health, livelihood, and the right of present and future generations to a healthy environment and a stable climate.
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Greenpeace Philippines statement on the signing into law of the Anti-Terror Bill
We at Greenpeace believe that activism is essential for a better normal. We will continue to speak out and act in solidarity, ensuring that those whose voices remain unheard will be heard. We will not be silenced.
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Job Opening:Regional Insights Coordinator
Greenpeace Southeast Asia is looking for a Regional Insights Coordinator
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Greenpeace Philippines joins calls to scrap anti-terror bill
“Activism is not a crime--it is a prerequisite to a green, just and peaceful society. Empowered participation and collective citizen action in political discourse, including in opposing harmful government policies and business practices, are vital in protecting the health and well-being of Filipinos and the environment on which we depend."
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Protecting nature means protecting ourselves
Healthy and undisturbed nature, especially intact ecosystems such as forests and other wilderness areas, provides a shield against dangerous new diseases emerging and spreading to humans. By contrast, exploiting nature creates the conditions for diseases similar to COVID-19 to emerge and spread.
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Govt-led COVID recovery plans must lead us to ‘better normal’ – Greenpeace
At present, trillions are earmarked for infrastructure projects and to support a private sector “recovery” phase in order to “restart” the economy. There is a real danger that governments and industries could reinvest in a business-as-usual scenario, including more dirty investments, and will exacerbate inequitable socio-economic conditions by developing private-for-profit services that neglect the needs,…
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The city of our post-COVID future
While we are in the midst of this pandemic, a powerful act is to start imagining what kind of city we might be living in when this pandemic slows down.