This Covid-19 crisis has affirmed our belief that the centrality of life is and should be our most important value. We know that care is essential for life, both human and nature. The crisis has made visible the interdependence between human beings and the...
Friends of the Earth Australia won some significant outcomes in 2020. They’ve been campaigning on so many fronts and doing their best to support local communities in their fights, from residents opposing new gas operations in western Victoria to locals fighting...
To highlight environmental issues that pose an immediate threat to human life in Gaza during the pandemic, PENGON organized different activities to advocate for environmental rights in Gaza both locally and internationally through a rights-based approach with an...
Tucked in southern Philippines is the largest undeveloped gold and copper open-pit mining project in Southeast Asia. With an area equivalent to the size of 700 football fields, the Tampakan mining project spells disaster for the region’s watershed systems,...
In 2020, the Russian Social-Ecological Union / Friends of the Earth Russia recorded at least 154 episodes of pressure on 429 environmental activists in 25 regions of Russia. One activist died, 15 received injuries of varying severity, 13 criminal cases were initiated...
In 2020, the Korea Federation for Environmental Movements (KFEM), together with 320 citizens, held four neighborhood clean-ups. As well as waste collection, the group conducted surveys on the collected garbage, identifying common brands and rubbish types. Based on the...
The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lock-down had created chaos across the world and among others highlighted the importance of food security, sovereignty and accessibility. As in other countries, Malaysia experienced disruption in our domestic food supply...
MAAR Ltd.’s Toxic Operations Maize Advance Agro Refineries Limited (MAAR Ltd.), a factory producing dry starch from Maize, has allegedly been dumping untreated toxic industrial waste into the Ekhtiarpur canal in Habiganj’s Madhabpur Upazila, Bangladesh. ...
Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA) has secured a major victory against a land grabber in Bangladesh. Approximately 748 acres of farmlands and wetlands in Sonargoan, Bangladesh, had been grabbed by two private companies owned by Mr. Noor Ali, Unique...
Since 1998, the Nuclear-Free Future Award has honored people worldwide who have committed themselves to a future free of nuclear power and nuclear weapons. This year, Andrey Talevlin, Coordinator of the Russian Social-Ecological Union (RSEU) program “Against...
VOTE for PENGON in the Transformative Cities 2020 People’s Choice Award! Majida Sabta, a 40-year-old mother of four children — three of which are blind — remembers the dark nights of the decades long electricity crisis in Gaza. “I was always tired, I was feeling...
On October 15, after a year-long court process, the Sri Lankan Court of Appeal has ordered the repatriation of 243 waste containers imported from the United Kingdom (UK). The Court also requested that government authorities take legal action against the companies...
