Tag: #RepealATA

[STATEMENT] Defend Environmental Defenders, Junk Twin Terror Laws!

Six years ago, Republic Act No. 11479—the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020—was signed into law. What followed has been a systematic assault on those who dare defend our country’s natural resources. Today, we mark six years not of countering terrorism, but of weaponizing state power against environmental human rights defenders under both the ATA and its companion legislation, the Terrorism Financing Prevention and Suppression Act of 2012.