The Asia Pacific region of Friends of the Earth is the most diverse region, encompassing groups from the global North and the global South. Member groups from the region are very active in community-based struggles against mining and other extractive industries. They work hand-in-hand with indigenous peoples, peasant farmers, and fisherfolk to secure sustainable livelihoods and fight against vulnerability to environmental disasters.
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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...
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