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Tourism in the Philippines: A View from the Underside
At a recent consultation, organized by Peace for Life and ECOT in Quezon City, Manila / Philippines, the participating civil society groups elaborated the following statement:
We are individuals and representatives of the church and of NGOs from labor, environment, culture and arts, rural development, health, indigenous peoples, women, and children’s rights in the Philippines participating in the Ecumenical Coalition on Tourism Consultation entitled Tourism in the Philippines: A View from the Underside on October 21-22, 2008.
Amid the global financial crisis and the domestic economy’s stagnation, there is widespread poverty, a rise in joblessness, deterioration of the health and education systems, further displacement of people due to human-made disasters and vulnerability to natural calamities, increasing h ...more >> |
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Trouble in Paradise - MRG Campaign Kenya
On the eve of World Indigenous Peoples’ Day MRG launches new online “Trouble in Paradise” Campaign calling for the tourism industry to respect indigenous rights in Kenya.
Minority Rights Group International (MRG) is a non-governmental organisation working to secure the rights of ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities and indigenous peoples worldwide.
On the eve of World Indigenous Peoples’ Day on 9 August, Minority Rights Group International (MRG) is re-launching the online Trouble in Paradise campaign, in support of the Endorois, an indigenous community from Kenya, evicte ...more >> |
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Climate Change, Tourism and Social Justice
Some reflections from the South by TT Sreekumar
Both Global tourism and domestic tourism are deeply interlinked and pose serious threats to the livelihood options of local communities. They also have enormous impacts on carbon emissions and consequently on global warming. In most discussions, the complicity of the national capital and conspicuous consumption of the new middle class does not get adequate attention although it is both politically and economically a significant phenomenon to reckon with. It is our experience that the local struggles against exploitative tourism will have to strategically respond to the new phenomenon.
What is also less debated is the localized impact of climate changes, particularly how local communities will be impacted and in the eventuality of erupting disasters, how they would be able to co ...more >> |
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