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VIDEO Testimony: Farming Organically In Nihonmatsu City, Fukushima Prefecture
Friends of the Earth Japan (FoE Japan) have launched a new video interview in their series of video testimonies of the current situation in Fukushima. The fifth multilingual installment in this series is an interview with Sugeno Seiji, an organic farmer in Nihonmatsu...
FoE Japan launch NEW website: Fukushima Mieruka Project
Friends of the Earth Japan (FoE Japan) has launched a new international website called the “Fukushima Mieruka Project.” “Mieruka” means to visualize or make visible. The aim of this project is to show the world the current situation in the aftermath of the Fukushima...
What will be the future of food?
The global pandemic has exposed the flaws in our current highly concentrated, inequitable, industrial food system. At this moment, we stand at the crossroads with two starkly different, and fundamentally incompatible, visions for the future of food. One leads us to...
Israeli Occupation and Forced Annexation: How Palestinians will further lose their lands and livelihoods
Join Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific, Friends of the Earth International, and Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network (PENGON/Friends of the Earth Palestine) for this online event to discuss the Israeli Occupation and Forced Annexation: How Palestinians will further...
Palestine: poisoned by Israel’s nuclear industry?
Research in the Hebron region of Palestine shows its inhabitants are suffering the effects of nuclear radiation contamination – and that this radiation is almost certainly emanating from nuclear activities taking place nearby in Israel, and the suspected dumping of...
Principles for a Just Recovery from the COVID crisis
Recovery does not mean going 'back to normal'. This is the time to prioritise justice, sustainability, human rights, and the protection of livelihoods and the planet. This article is the culmination of collective debates and work from Friends of the Earth...
New Report shows that the Strzelecki Koala Faces an Uncertain Future
Between December 2019 and July 2020, Environmental group, Friends of the Earth, carried out 200 koala surveys in the Strzelecki Ranges and Gippsland Region. The surveys hoped to better understand habitat utilisation by koalas in the region. The surveys add to other...
A #JustRecovery from COVID-19
The COVID-19 crisis is the result of an economic system that prioritises profits over peoples’ rights and the environment. The systemic, inter-related socio-ecological crises we face — climate, biodiversity, food, water, economic and care — and...
Online Event: 10 years after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
Next year marks 10 years since the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011 and the subsequent nuclear accident at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The accident robbed people of their lives, livelihood, communities, and precious time with their...
Ocean Grabbing in Malaysia is Destroying Coastal Zones
Healthy oceans are critical for sustaining life, eliminating poverty and promoting prosperity. They also sequester carbon dioxide from our climate. Yet despite their importance they continue to be devastated by human activities, including coastal development and...
A Green New Deal without clear goals can never respond to the climate crisis
The Korean government recently released details of its Green New Deal. Here is the translated response from the Korea Federation for Environmental Movements and the Climate Crisis Emergency Action network. On July 14, the South Korean government announced a detailed...
LRC files petition on behalf of indigenous peoples against Anti-Terrorism Law
A group of indigenous and Moro leaders has filed the 26th petition against the government-backed Anti-Terrorism Law (ATL). The petitioners, composed mostly of women, assailed the constitutional overreach of ATL. The petitioners, who are involved in the defense of...
Malaysian Government must not relax on conditions for Lynas operations
Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) calls on the current government not to relax on the conditions imposed by the previous government for the operations of Lynas Corporation in Gebeng, Pahang. Public health and environmental safety concerns must remain the focus of government...
New coal power plant threatens Yokosuka
"Coal is not the energy of the future. It is the energy of the past."Dipti Bhatnagar, Climate Justice & Energy program co-coordinator, Friends of the Earth International English Watch the video from Friends of the Earth Japan here (with English subtitles). JERA...
Coffee in the time of impunity
Coffee is being touted as the next ‘big thing’ in the Philippines. Yet blood has already been shed over this seemingly innocuous drink, as coffee-growing companies attempt to grab fertile ancestral lands from indigenous peoples. Brewing Tensions The Philippines is an...
A Briefing on Longxing 629: A case of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing activities and related human rights abuses on a tuna longliner
Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) fishing activities have been among the most critical threats to marine ecosystems. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recognised the threat and announced the International Plan of Action to Prevent, Deter, and...
