The report revealed that the country is at risk of losing a total of P1.04 trillion annually, or equivalent to 28% of the country's national budget in 2019, should the critical landscapes and seascapes protected by environmental defenders from extractive and destructive interests be degraded or destroyed.
"At least 19,498 environmental defenders were subjected to a wide range of human rights abuses under the Duterte administration," said Clemente Bautista Jr, the international network coordinator of Kalikasan PNE. Kalikasan PNE emphasized in the report that these rights abuses were driven by"economic policies on mining, agribusiness, forestry, and other industries under Duterte, whose policies provided guarantees, incentives, and rights to big businesses."
The group recommended in its report that the United Nations"consider initiating an International Fact Finding Mission or establishing a Commission of Inquiry to probe deeper into this situation and come to binding resolutions to alleviate the national human rights crisis," specifically looking into"the link between destructive projects of big business and government and the counter insurgency and other internal security programs.
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