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International Environment NGO Submits Petitions Against the Construction of Henoko US Military Base Both in Japan and the US. Voices of 19,406 US and Japanese citizens
International environment NGO Friends of the Earth Japan, and members of the Preserve and Protect Henoko and Takae! NGO networks have submitted a petition with names of 19,406 citizens to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Minister of Defense Takeshi Iwaya, calling for the...
Joint Letter calling for PNG Government to cancel deep sea mining licences and to ban seabed mining in PNG
The Center for Environmental Law and Community Rights (CELCOR) have penned a joint letter to the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea asking the Government to cancel all Nautilus Minerals deep sea mining licences and to ban seabed mining in PNG. Dear Hon. Prime...
Environmental Activists around Asia protested against Abe’s pro-coal policy
On the opening day of the G20 Summit, environmental NGOs gathered in Osaka city to demand Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, take effective measures against climate change and urgently phase-out coal. https://twitter.com/FoEJapan_en/status/1144410884510322688...
Press Release for World Environment Day: Air Pollution is a silent killer in Sri Lanka.
Press Release from the Centre for Environmental Justice. The theme of the World Environment day 2019 is #Beat Air Pollution. Air pollution is one of the silent killer in Sri Lanka. According to the Health Authorities over 45% of the admissions of children to hospitals...
Does Spring Come To Stolen Forests?
Korean CSOs call on Korean Government and corporations to take immediate measures to stop serious deforestation and human rights violations in the palm oil industry Korea Federation for Environmental Movements (KFEM) and Advocates for Public Interest Law (APIL)...
VICTORY! UN Decides to Control Global Plastic Waste Dumping
VICTORY! 187 countries have just taken major step forward in curbing the plastic waste trade by adding plastic to the Basel Convention in Geneva Countries now have the right to know about and refuse plastic exported to their shores. #breakfreefromplastic...
Change the system or face global ecological collapse says global biodiversity assessment
6 May 2019, Paris: The world faces ecological collapse and mass extinctions unless dramatic action is taken to change social and economic systems, according to a global assessment launched today by The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and...
Solidarity with the people of Sri Lanka
Friends of the Earth International and Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific condemn the recent brutal attacks in Sri Lanka which have left more than 250 innocent people dead and over 500 wounded. With a bloody history of over three decades of civil war, Sri Lanka has...
Stop Reclaiming Our Seas!
Press Statement 27th February 2019 SAM launches report on Impacts of Coastal Reclamation in Malaysia Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) calls upon the Malaysian government to cancel all proposed coastal reclamation projects in the country. The call is based on findings of...
Human Rights Day 2018 – Struggle On!
PRESS STATEMENT By and large, the seventy-year-old Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) remains a “secret document”, still unknown to most of the seven billion beings that the document says declares have rights simply by being human. Starting with the UDHR on...
Stop the violence against Indigenous Peoples; Recognise and Protect the rights of Indigenous Peoples
PRESS STATEMENT Stop the violence against Indigenous Peoples; Recognise and Protect the rights of Indigenous Peoples August 09, 2018 Every year, since 1995, August 09 is observed as the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples where every person is...
Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific denounces Tamil Nadu massacre and calls for Vedanta to be brought to account for environmental and human rights violations.
PRESS STATEMENT June 14, 2018 Indian Government must prioritize life over profit; Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific denounces Tamil Nadu massacre and calls for Vedanta to be brought to account for environmental and human rights violations. Friends of the Earth Asia...
Statement: The international community must end its silence in the face of Israeli atrocities against Palestinians
Friends of the Earth International and Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific are deeply aggrieved by news that dozens of Palestinians have been killed at the Gaza border during the official opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. On Monday 14 May, Israel used...
KELANTAN GOVERNMENT SHOULD RESPECT INDIGENOUS PEOPLES LAND RIGHTS
KELANTAN GOVERNMENT SHOULD RESPECT INDIGENOUS PEOPLES LAND RIGHTS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYMc0hRrYcU&feature=youtu.be The Kelantan State Authorities has been approving logging activities, monoculture plantation projects, land-use conversion to agriculture...
STOP REDTAGGING AND CRIMINALISING DEFENDERS OF TERRITORIES
PRESS STATEMENT MARCH 14, 2018 STOP REDTAGGING AND CRIMINALISING DEFENDERS OF TERRITORIES Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific (FoE APac) condemns the use of anti-communist and anti-terror laws to silence environmental and indigenous rights activists in the Philippines...
Restoring 50 Canals in Dhaka: High Court Decision
In recent decades, Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, had 58 canals flowing through the city, fed by surrounding rivers and lakes. A recorded 50 of these canals worked as the city’s drainage system. The majority of these canals have since disappeared, with the...
