PMPI calls for end to corporate harassment, stronger protection of EHRDs and rights of nature

THE Philippine Misereor Partnership Inc. (PMPI) issued a strong call to government duty bearers, corporations and the Filipino public to end the escalating pattern of corporate intimidation, ecological destruction and legal harassment targeting environmental human rights defenders (EHRDs) across the country. Communities and partner organizations of PMPI have long documented the severe impacts of extractive operations, including on Homonhon Island in Eastern Samar, where decades of large‑scale op