Protect Diwalwal’s Small Miners from Foreign Firms, Pimentel Urges Gov’t

Mindanaoan senator Aquilino Pimentel Jr. today warned the Arroyo government not to neglect the rights of small-scale miners as the government opens the Diwalwal gold-rush site to big mining companies, among them foreign-owned.

Pimentel said small-scale miners ?want an assurance that their means of livelihood and their welfare will be protected with the entry of mining firms and their foreign partners.?

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?2006 Worst Year for Human Rights in Davao Regions? — 4. Intensifying Trade Union Repression

4. Intensifying Trade Union Repression "2006 Human Rights Situation of Southern Mindanao" Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Main Trends in the Human Rights Situation * Impunity in Extrajudicial Killings *…

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