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RSEU member wins Nuclear-Free Future Award
Since 1998, the Nuclear-Free Future Award has honored people worldwide who have committed themselves to a future free of nuclear power and nuclear weapons. This year, Andrey Talevlin, Coordinator of the Russian Social-Ecological Union (RSEU) program "Against Nuclear...
SRI LANKA: Raiding Resources, Criminalising Defenders
Country Context The political situation in Sri Lanka is in flux, and space for civil society is shrinking. This situation is exacerbated because Sri Lanka’s environmental laws are poorly enforced, and people lack faith in the legal system. Environmental, resource, and...
Pari Island Hit by Tidal Floods Twice in a Year
Press Release by Wahana Lingkungan Hidup Indonesia (WALHI) On Monday, 16 November 2020, tidal floods hit Pari Island, Kepulauan Seribu, Jakarta. The tourist island has been submerged in water for two days. This is the second tidal flood to occur this year. The head of...
Communities say NO to MAAR Ltd.’s toxic waste
Maize Advance Agro Refineries Limited (MAAR Ltd.) has allegedly been dumping untreated toxic industrial waste into the Ekhtiarpur canal in Habiganj’s Madhabpur Upazila, Bangladesh. MAAR Ltd. started operation in Bangladesh in 2012. The local environment administration...
CEJ wins Wilpattu judgment
In 2015, the Centre for Environmental Justice/Friends of the Earth Sri Lanka filed a legal action against the Conservator General of Forest, former Minister Rishard Badiuddin, and five others regarding forest destruction north of Wilpathu national park. The area...
Campaigning to make Victoria a Climate Action Leader
It is undeniable that the impacts of climate change will indiscriminately affect communities in the Asia Pacific region. Yet some countries within the region continue to deny the severity of the climate crisis. Australia is one of these countries. Even after suffering...
Female empowerment: Women are helping to generate clean energy in the besieged Gaza Strip
VOTE for PENGON in the Transformative Cities 2020 People’s Choice Award! Majida Sabta, a 40-year-old mother of four children — three of which are blind — remembers the dark nights of the decades long electricity crisis in Gaza. “I was always tired, I was feeling...
RUSSIA: Rosatom exporting deadly nuclear technologies
Rosatom is a Russian state-owned transnational corporation that builds and operates nuclear power plants in Russia and globally. It deals with all aspects of the nuclear technological chain, from uranium mining to managing nuclear waste and spent fuel, creating...
CEJ warns lead pollution sources still exists in Sri Lanka
In Celebrating the International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week of Action, Centre for Environmental Justice (CEJ)/Friends of the Earth Sri Lanka and IPEN (International Pollutants Elimination Network) reminds the public to avoid sources of lead poisoning in order to...
Stop the Ocean Discharge of Fukushima Radioactive Water
The Japanese government must create a long-term storage plan, instead of releasing radioactive water into the ocean.The Korean government should actively oppose the ocean discharge of radioactive water from Fukushima, Japan.The Korean government must prepare follow-up...
Local court upholds ban on open-pit mining
A local court has thrown out a motion to invalidate a local environmental code that bans open-pit mining in the province of South Cotabato. In a court ruling issued recently, Judge Vicente Peña upheld the legality of the code, citing provisions in the Constitution,...
VICTORY: Sri Lankan court orders waste containers to return to the UK
On October 15, after a year-long court process, the Sri Lankan Court of Appeal has ordered the repatriation of 243 waste containers imported from the United Kingdom (UK). The Court also requested that government authorities take legal action against the companies...
TAKE ACTION TO KEEP COAL OUT OF PNG
CELCOR/Friends of the Earth Papua New Guinea (PNG) initially launched its NO COAL IN PNG CAMPAIGN in November 2018 in response to the interest of an Australian ASX-listed company Mayur Resources Ltd, in developing a coal industry in Papua New Guinea. This year, CELCOR...
New VIDEO Testimony: Konno Sumio, Fukushima Evacuee
Friends of the Earth Japan, in cooperation with the NGO Peace Boat have launched a new video testimony of the current situation in Fukushima. This latest video features an interview with Mr Konno Sumiko, who evacuated from his home in the town of Namie, Fukushima....
Media Release: NEW REPORT ‘The Coal Agenda: Mayur Resources and the push to start a coal industry in PNG’
A new report from CELCOR (Centre for Environmental Law and Community Rights Inc) and the Jubilee Australia Research Centre has raised significant concerns about a proposal from an ASX listed Australian energy company, Mayur Resources, to build the Pacific’s first...
FILM LAUNCH: Gaza waiting the worst
PENGON/Friends of the Earth Palestine invites you to participate in the online launch of the short documentary film “GAZA WAITING FOR THE WORST”. The online discussion will focus on the environmental and health situation in the Gaza Strip in light of the COVID-19...
