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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...
Recognise, Respect and Protect Environmental Human Rights Defenders
Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific released the statement for December 10th Human Rights Day. We denounce the increasing number of Human Rights abuses against environmental & political activists, defenders of territories & collective rights. Our statement is...
The untold stories of climate impacted peoples
-UNFCCC COP23, Bonn, Germany Seas are rising and many people forced to migrate in the Pacific islands, a fracking company takes a fancy to a drought stricken area, hurricanes cripple a whole country, walls and fences are built to block the free movement of people...
Calls for Just solutions for climate induced migration in Asia Pacific
Untold stories of people impacted by climate change Countries in the Asia Pacific region are threatened climate change impacts; floods, landslides and severe droughts. Impacts that could fuel a rise in food and water prices, increasing competition and conflicts among...
APAC presented at the UN Treaty Negotiations
Hemantha Withanage, Executive Director of Centre for Environmental Justice (CEJ) - FoE Sri Lanka was part of a session panel titled Voices of the Victims at the UN Treaty on Transnational Corporations Session in Geneva, Switzerland. Hemantha highlighted 2 main cases...
Soga needs no coal power plants – The new construction plan on a land with a history of pollution
Day of Action in Japan Friends of the Earth Japan raised voice with local communities in Soga, Chiba against the construction of new coal power plant as a part of the global fight against climate change, joining with over 30 grassroots groups across six continents....
No to Rampal coal plant!
https://www.facebook.com/foeint/videos/10155539778465280/ Bangladesh plans to build 28 coal power plants. The people of Bangladesh have seen the damage coal plants do to the environment and communities. One of these planned power plants, Rampal, is close to...
Communities unite against coal mining in Indonesia
 Indonesia is one of the world’s largest coal exporters. In 2015, the country mined over 460 million tonnes of coal. Today more than 5,000 mining permits have been issued. The Indonesian government wants to produce an additional 35.000 MW of energy, mostly from coal...
Letter: Stop the Prosecution of Students of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras
Members of Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific (FoE APac) released the letter to demand them to stop the Prosecution of Students of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras. Yunior Alexander Oyuel and fellow students were detained on September 8 while exercising their...
International Day of the World’s Indigenous People
Today on International Day of the World’s Indigenous People, Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific (FoE APAC) groups from 13 countries are celebrating the stories of the indigenous communities. Globally, there are an estimated 370 million indigenous peoples, the majority...
