Philippine youth activist sounds environmental alarm amid threats Duration: 01:34 For climate activist Mitzi Jonelle Tan, trying to get her voice heard on environmental issues in the Philippines means regularly running into security guards and policemen wary of her activism. But Tan, convenor of the Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines, says she will not back down.
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President Rodrigo Duterte signed into law the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 on July 3. The law took effect on July 18.
In a statement, YACAP called the Anti-Terror Law an “unconstitutional attempt of the state to silence their critics.”
“With its vague definitions of ‘terrorism’ as a whole, environmental defenders and activists can easily be tagged and manipulated as terrorists, leading to their illegal detention, and even their deaths,” the youth-led alliance said.
According to YACAP, in Duterte’s first three years in office, a total of 199 land and environmental defenders were killed.
In 2019, 49 more environmental defenders were killed, while 500 cases of human rights abuses were recorded in 2020.
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When Typhoon Vamco battered the Philippines in November last year, unleashing a month s worth of rain on the capital Manila in less than 24 hours, Mitzi Jonelle Tan was on her way home from work. Her mother, scared for her safety as roads flooded, warned her not to come back.