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Quezon City, Philippines – Three Filipino tribal leaders are presently in Geneva, Switzerland participating in the United Nation’s Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UNCERD) hearing on a complaint filed by the Subanon community against the Philippine Government.

First Time Voters, Elderly, Persons with Disabilities, Internally Displaced Persons, Indigenous Peoples, Overseas Filipino Workers and Detainees - kindly be remided to register until OCTOBER 31, 2009 to be able to vote in the May 2010 Elections.

BORONGAN, Eastern Samar - Today, the Diocese of Borongan convened and hosted the 4th Eastern Samar Peace and Development Forum (ESPDF), which focused on the discussion on infrastructure development and environmental concerns of the province.

BOAC, Marinduque – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is keen in reopening the Marcopper mines in this island province and is seeking support from Gov. Jose Antonio “Bong” Carrion to win popular acceptance for the move.

Benguet president Benjamin Philip Romualdez reported a consolidated net loss of P89 million in the first quarter compared with a net loss of P85 million a year ago. Operating revenue fell to P32.4 million from P41.1 million due to lower sales of chromite.

BAGUIO CITY -- Government geologists have declared a section of the mining town of Mankayan in Benguet a danger zone to speed up the relocation of communities endangered by a June 5 landslide that has continued to eat through the town center.

The Students of Sustainability 2009 (SoS'09) is hosting a forum on the widespread mining in the Philippines by multinational mining companies, and the impacts on communities and the environment at Monash University (Room H1), Melbourne, Victoria on 09 July 2009 at 2.15pm.

The forum will feature Philippine activists Myke Magalang and Rodne Galicha, who are both well versed in the issues of mining and have used local, national and international forums to get justice for the wrongs inflicted by mining.

At the young age of 13, Henry has already joined his father and older brother in looking for the prized element. With their combined income, they are able to feed the rest of their family. Meanwhile, 20-year old Jerry’s main concern is to look after his loved ones through mining. But his dream of lifting his parents out of poverty was suddenly cut short when he was heavily injured last year while planting explosives at the mine.

The government and civilian organizations (CO) fact finding team found positive allegations of illegal operations inside the restricted Butuan City Watershed areas. The team visited the site and investigated alleged illegal mining, illegal cutting of trees and illegal construction of road inside the 4,367.44-hectare government-declared watershed.