Tell it to SunStar: The dangerous situation local environment defenders face

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By Karapatan secretary-general Cristina Palabay.As surfaced environmental defenders Jhed Tamano and Jonila Castro face the perjury charges filed against them by their abductors, we are calling on the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Climate Change and Human Rights to “address the dangerous situation of environmental human rights defenders and communities in the Philippines.

A protest action was held at the DOJ where Karapatan and other rights defenders and environmental activists called to stop the judicial harassment and drop the charges against Tamano and Castro, who will submit their counter-affidavits.We would like to cite the case of Daisy Macapanpan who, similar to Tamano and Castro, is facing trumped-up cases. These are alarming examples of political persecution of environmental defenders in the country.

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