News from our member groups
CEJ seek justice for the social and environmental damage caused by MV ‘X-PRESS PEARL’ Cargo Vessel Fire
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...
Locked In, Locked Out: Indigenous Peoples Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
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 under the...
Protest and Pressure in a Pandemic
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 so-called...
Justice for coal power plant workers killed in police shooting
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...
INTERVIEW: FoE Bangladesh calls for independent investigation into coal plant workers police shooting
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...
Internationalist Solidarity with Palestine
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...
Environmentalists applaud ban oil palm cultivation in Sri Lanka
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 widespread...
NEW VIDEO: The Lumad’s Story
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 identification of...
No more violence, no more silence!
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...
KFEM condemns the South Korea Forest Service’s “carbon-neutral” logging policy
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...
New Video: Evacuees in their own land
From Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center (LRC)/Friends of the Earth Philippines As the Bangsamoro edges closer to its long-held aspiration for full autonomy, non-Moro Indigenous Peoples (NMIPs) are in danger of becoming a "minority within a minority." In the...
Statement on the issuance of EO 130 lifting the moratorium on mining
Months after the pandemic struck, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said the Government of the Philippines would pursue mining as an economic recovery strategy for the country. It has delivered on this promise with the issuance of Executive...
Joint Non-Government Organisations Submission to UN’s Periodic Review Committee on Human Rights Abuses in Papua New Guinea
In a recent submission by a joint Non-Government Organization Group (Centre for Environmental Law and Community Rights Inc, Bismarck Ramu Group, Evangelical Lutheran Church and Ozeanien Dialog) to the United Nations’ Periodic Review Committee, the group has put...
South Korean Civil Society Groups Condemn the Japanese Government’s Decision to Release Radioactive Wastewater into the Sea
Joint Statement from South Korean Civil Society Groups On April 13, the Japanese government officially announced its decision to discharge contaminated wastewater from Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean. In the decade since the Fukushima...
FoE Japan strongly condemns the decision by the Japanese government to release contaminated water into the ocean
On April 13th 2021, at a Cabinet meeting, the Japanese government decided to discharge so-called ALPS (Advanced Liquid Processing System) treated water stored in tanks at the site of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the ocean. There have been no public...
NGOs call on Biden and Suga to take strong leadership on ending public support for fossil fuels
The Japanese government announced that the first in-person U.S.-Japan summit between U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will be held on April 16 in Washington D.C. We, as environmental NGOs based in the U.S. and Japan, call on...
