Statement of CHR Spokesperson, Atty. Jacqueline Ann de Guia, on safeguarding the rights of environmental defenders
As we commemorate the United Nations World Wildlife Day this week, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) believes that one vital way to protect the environment is to safeguard the rights of our environmental defenders. Environmentalists in the Philippines risk their lives every time they go out in the field to do scientific research. Despite […]