Estrada Seeks Senate Probe into Environmental Defender Killings
Senator Jinggoy Estrada has filed a Senate resolution calling for an investigation into the killings of environmental defenders in the Philippines, a country named the deadliest for activists by Global Witness for the 13th consecutive year.
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