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CAMPAIGN FOR
HUMAN RIGHTS IN
THE PHILIPPINES
09 March 2016
Project on Glencore-Xstrata
CHRP participated in a joint project with War On Want and UNISON, along with its partner in
the Philippines, the environmental group Kalikasan (Peoples Network for the Environment).
This focused on the activities of Glencore-Xstrata, owner of a controlling stake in the
Tampakan mining project which planned to build a huge copper and gold mine in Mindanao,
southern Philippines.
These operations threatened to displace thousands of people and destroy 10,000 hectares
including precious areas of rainforest. Security forces have committed atrocities against local
B'laan indigenous communities which have opposed the project.
On 7 May, around 20 CHRP
activists
joined
with
other
organisations to picket the
Glencore
Headquarters
in
Mayfair. This was part of a
coordinated international protest
against the company on the date
of
its corporate AGM in
Switzerland.
On 16 May, a public meeting and
showing of Glencores Deadly
Mine - a documentary made by
the joint project, took place at the
Unison
Centre.
Speakers
included Gloria Holguin of Pensamiento y Accion Social in Colombia where Glencore-Xstrata
also has operations, and via video link Enteng Bautista of Kalikasan Peoples Network for the
Environment. The film is now available for viewing on Youtube. (Search Glencores Deadly
Mine.)
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Annual General Meeting 2015 Campaign for Human Rights in the Philippines
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Annual General Meeting 2015 Campaign for Human Rights in the Philippines
Public meetings were held in UNISON Centre and at St Johns Church in Notting Hill,
organised in coordination with the Kanlungan Filipino Consortium and the UNISON-Filipino
Activists Network. A meeting with Amnesty International was also held.
These meetings were the first in a series of actions and events in Europe being held over a
two or three weeks period coordinated by the International Coalition for Human Rights in the
Philippines (ICHRP), and which focused on human rights abuses in Mindanao.
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