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- 1Philippines minerals boom raises old human rights concerns●A new minerals push confronts an old human rights problem in the Philippines
A renewed push to extract minerals in the Philippines is colliding with long-standing human rights problems, according to Oxfam America's Politics of Poverty blog. The piece argues that expanded mining, driven by global demand for critical minerals, risks repeating abuses against local and indigenous communities that have marked the sector in the past.