TAMPAKAN, Philippines For nearly a decade, Nora Sukal was the public face of Indigenous opposition to the Tampakan project, a planned gold and copper mine on Blaan tribal land in Mindanao in the southern Philippines. “The proposed copper and gold open-pit mining project within our ancestral domains poses serious risks to our survival as […]
The NUG's Minister of Human Rights said the arrest of volunteers at the Karuna (compassion) Dispensary in Christ the King Cathedral compound at Naung Ya Ward in Loikaw township, Kayah State is a war crime. He said it has been enacted to attack and arrest humanitarian aid workers.