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Japanese government plans to release radioactive contaminated water
The Japanese government is planning to release radioactive contaminated water, that has been accumulating since the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in 2011, into the ocean. At present, more than 70% of the water which is being stored in the tanks...
Environmental Defenders Under Threat
Russian Social-Ecological Union (RSEU) has been monitoring the persecution of environmental defenders since 2012. RSEU has reported during the first 5 months of 2020, 63 new attacks were recorded, concerning more than 170 eco-activists, groups, and NGOs, in 20 regions...
New REPORT Anti–nuclear resistance in Russia: problems, protests, reprisals
Russian Social Ecological Union (RSEU) have released a report which highlights a collection of events and details about the resistance to Rosatom’s pollution of the environment and violation of human rights. Social and environmental conflicts created by Rosatom have...
Japan must not support Vung Ang 2 Coal Power Plant in Vietnam
Japanese environmental NGOs, including Friends of the Earth Japan, have submitted a petition to the Japanese public and private sectors for the cancellation of the Vung Ang 2 Coal-fired Power Generation Project in Vietnam. The petition was signed by 127 organizations...
Solidarity with victims of the LG gas leak
On May 7th 2020, a deadly gas leak occurred at a LG Corp Polymers plant in Andhra Pradesh, India. The incident, reminiscent of the 1984 Bhopal disaster, has reportedly affected over 1000 people, killed at least twelve and has allegedly damaged the environment. The...
FoE APac uses education as a tool to strengthen regional campaign on food sovereignty
The School of Sustainability The liberating character of education was the inspiration of the Friends of the Earth Asia-Pacific (FoE APac), Food Sovereignty and Digital Communications, School of Sustainability (SofS), held in Pulau Pari, Indonesia, February 2020....
Activists mobilise online against the import of German uranium waste to Russia
In the fall of 2019, environmentalists revealed nuclear and toxic waste (uranium hexafluoride, UF6) was being imported from Germany to Russia. In response, Russian Social-Ecological Union, Ecodefense and Greenpeace Russia called on Russian organizations, movements and...
Marking 34 years since the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
Friends of the Earth Japan, in cooperation with Peace Boat, are launching a series of video testimonies of the current situation in Fukushima in 6 languages. This will begin on April 26, marking 34 years since the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster. Nine years have passed...
COVID-19: An Opportunity for System Change
In light of International Seeds Day today, we want to plant a seed of hope for a better planet. Covid-19 has revealed the urgent need for system change and solidarity. It has shown that all our struggles are interconnected. It has been more than a month since the...
Use of bear bile in COVID-19 treatment should be stopped
Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) is gravely concerned to learn that the National Health Commission of China has recommended the use of bear bile in the treatment of severe and critical cases of COVID-19. This move is a blow to conservationists worldwide, as on...
Police clash with community barricading Oceana Gold mining operations
According to Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center (LRC)/Friends of the Earth Philippines, on 6 April 2020, approximately 100 members of the police accompanied fuel tanks entering an Oceana Gold mining facility in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya. The provincial and...
Protect the welfare of indigenous communities in Sarawak amid the MCO
Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) has been receiving reports from indigenous communities in interior Sarawak, which describe how the movement control order (MCO) has affected them. The communities are currently anxious over the dwindling supply of essential food items,...
The concerning presence of “Kenka” boats in the Kerian River
It is well known that river lobsters are the main catch for 200 to 300 riverine fishers in the Kerian River in Nibong Tebal, regardless of whether they are full time or part-time fishers. Their daily income and catch depend on the harvest from the river. At present,...
Statement on 9th Anniversary of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster: Don’t Let the Olympics Obscure the True Impacts
Nine years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami struck the Tohoku region, causing the TEPCO Daiichi nuclear power plant accident. The impacts of this nuclear accident continue to this day.Radiation from the accident contaminated a...
Why Gender Justice and Dismantling Patriarchy?
Friends of the Earth sees system change as crucial for the transformation of our societies. We recognise gender justice and the dismantling of patriarchy as key to achieving this transformative change. This new booklet from Friends of the Earth International...
Political and Legal Threats to Community Land Rights in Malaysia
In the early twentieth century, Malaya was an important global exporter of rubber and tin. Between the 1980s and 1990s, the country transitioned into being the world’s leading exporter of tropical logs. Initially, industrial logging began to intensify in Peninsular...
