PRESS RELEASE – August 3, 2021 WALHI and Sunspirit for Justice and Peace An amplified wave of protest against the development project that threatens the sustainability of the conservation, local economy, and people’s living space within Komodo National...
Asia is drowning in plastic, with national production and imports from the global north resulting in devastating environmental and human health impacts. Most South and East Asian Countries, including Sri Lanka, do not have proper waste management strategies,...
Today on #InternationalMangroveDay, we shine a light on why mangroves matter. Half of the world’s mangrove forests (more than 30 million hectares) have been destroyed or cleared in the past half-century, for agricultural and destructive development projects, in the...
Reacting to news that the financial or technical assistance agreement (FTAA) with Australian-ownedOceanaGold Philippines (OGPI) for a gold mining project in Nueva Vzcaya has been renewed by the Duterte administration, LRC’s direct services coordinator, Atty. Ryan...
Supporting new Coal Plants in Indonesia and Bangladesh goes against the Agreement Despite the G7’s Statement, stating to “end new direct international government support for unabated coal-fired power generation by the end of 2021”, the Japanese government is still...
Stop the intimidation of forests conservation activists and immediately evict the US military from the Yambaru Forests World Natural Heritage candidate site. Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific expresses its deep concern over the latest news from Japan regarding the...
Hemantha Withanage, Executive Director of the Centre for Environmental Justice in Sri Lanka has been elected as the chair of Friends of the Earth International. Hemantha follows Karin Nansen of Uruguay, whose two terms as chair ended in June 2021. A science graduate...
Friends of the Earth have teamed up with ActionAid and Jubilee Australia to launch the inaugural Cane Toad Award, where you will have the opportunity to have your say on which Australian corporation should be named and shamed for being the biggest Cane Toad. From...
‘Plastic Tray Zero’ campaign called for the removal of unnecessary plastic trays from certain snack products. Lotte, Haitai, Nongshim, and Dongwon all agreed to remove trays. All companies also announced further packaging reductions in other products....
Earlier this year, the Japanese government announced that they would discharge contaminated water at Fukushima Daiichi into the ocean despite the strong criticism from fishing communities in Fukushima, Japanese civil society and the international community. The...
June 8th was World Oceans Day. It was an opportunity to emphasise the importance of our oceans and the many services they provide, as well as raise awareness of the ways in which we are harming them through plastic pollution. Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) attended the...
Rainforests are the lungs of our earth. Their protection is crucial to halt biodiversity loss, tackle climate change, reduce the risk of disaster, and sustain the cultural and livelihood practices of Indigenous Peoples and forest-dependent communities. Yet globally,...
In May 2021, a fire broke out onboard MV X-Press Pearl, a Singaporean container ship near Colombo harbor, causing severe damage to the ocean and coastal belt. Since the disaster, the coastline has been inundated with dead marine life, and micro-plastic nurdles have...
NEW REPORT from The Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center (LRC)/Friends of the Earth Philippines. Our new paper, “Locked In, Locked Out: Indigenous Peoples Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic,” has found that Indigenous Peoples (IPs) are suffocating...
Status of Russia’s foreign agent laws and implications for environmental defenders in 2020. Russia’s civil society has been under pressure since the beginning of the 2000s, with the situation has become increasingly difficult over the years. Since 2012, the...
On 17 April 2021, Bangladeshi police clashed with peaceful demonstrators at the Banshkhali Coal Power Plant in Chattogram, killing 7 workers. The power plant is a joint venture between Bangladeshi industrialists S Alam Group, and Chinese companies SEPCO III Power...
It has been a month since police opened fire on a workers peaceful demonstration at the under-construction Banshkhali Coal Power plant in Bangladesh. They were defending their worker’s rights and payment of their overdue salary. Real World Radio recently spoke with...
Friends of the Earth International condemns the ongoing Israeli attacks on Palestine, including the outrageous targeting of women and children, civilian structures, the bombing of densely populated areas, and attacks on media buildings that threaten the international...
On Monday, 5 April 2021, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksha issued a gazette banning oil palm cultivation in Sri Lanka (gazette No. 2222/13). President Rajapaksha stated that “representations have been made to me that the oil palm cultivation already...
In an en banc resolution, the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) denounced the use of the term ‘Lumad.’ Lumad is a term for non-Moro indigenous peoples in Mindanao. According to the resolution, “the term lumad was chosen to control the...
From Friends of the Earth Melbourne (Australia) The Victorian Climate Change Act 2017 required the Andrews government to prepare the state’s first Climate Change Strategy by 31 October 2020. It’s a key piece of work that will outline how each economic...
Renewable energy is necessary to end carbon dependence. However, it can also be harnessed merely to power the same economic systems and development pathways. In fact, like fossil fuels, it can be implicated in the displacement and marginalization of indigenous...
Friends of the Earth International’s commitment to preventing violence and sexual harassment in our federation. We strive for a world without violence against women in all spheres of life – at work, in public and in private. Our struggle for system change, based on...
The Forest Service plans to allow 72% of forests across the country to be logged as part of a “2050 Carbon-Neutral Forestry Sector” plan. Despite Forest Service’s claims, older trees retain higher carbon absorption capacity. Trees have ecological value beyond carbon...
