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WHY A LEGALLY BINDING TREATY ON TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS IS SO IMPORTANT

THE DEVIL WILL ACTUALLY BE IN THE DETAILS UN CLIMATE CHANGE NEGOTIATIONS KICK OFF

Stumbling TTIP Friends of the Earth Europe assesses the situation

Small community in Liberia stands strong against land grabbing

SHELL ORDERED TO CUT ITS CO2 EMISSIONS IN HALF BY 2030

REVIVING INDIGENOUS AGROECOLOGY IN THE PHILIPPINES SULAGAD

MONOCULTURE PLANTATIONS DESTROYING FORESTS AND COMMUNITIES ACROSS EAST ASIA

LAND RIGHTS REVOLUTION IN LIBERIA

JUSTICE FOR GOLFRID

INDUSTRIAL MONOCULTURES IN HONDURAS CONFLICT LANDGRABBING AND PERSECUTION OF PEASANTS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

INDIA ONGOING REPERCUSSIONS AND DEMANDS AFTER MASSIVE FIRE IN OIL WELL

FRIENDS OF THE EARTH WINS HISTORIC RULING AGAINST SHELL IN NIGERIA

COMMUNITIES IN ASIA UNITED IN THE FIGHT AGAINST COAL

8 MARCH WE MUST MARCH TOGETHER

June 30th marks the full circle of the first year under Philippine president Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr., son of previously deposed dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. The Philippines is both a globally critical hotspot of biodiversity and natural resources, and a historic beacon of democracy and people power in Asia. But the environmental and human rights situation has deteriorated over the past de...

Asia is drowning in plastic, with national production and imports from the global north having devastating environmental and public health impacts. According to a report by Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific, most South and East Asian countries lack proper waste management strategies, regulations and facilities to deal with the plastic waste crisis. Often, communities are forced to resort to open d...

Climate litigation is an increasingly common area of environmental law that people are using to hold countries and public corporations to account for contributing to the climate crisis. In 2021, Friends of the Earth Netherlands, known locally as Milieudefensie, won a landmark victory for climate justice in the People VS Shell climate case. Now, Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific member groups are t...

The Philippines has 421 principal rivers spread across 119 proclaimed watersheds. Aside from providing water to drink for 110 million Filipinos, these are also the source of irrigation for almost a million hectares of agricultural lands across the nation, and a significant source of electricity, comprising 10% of the current power mix.

Starting on Monday 10 October through to Thursday, the United Nations Committee on World Food Security (CFS) will hold its 50th session, in Rome, Italy. This year, it faces the challenge of the third massive hunger crisis to hit the world in the past 15 years. But, will it be able to put in motion the structural changes needed to solve this human crisis?

Peace-building is one of the items on the agenda of social movements and organizations in Colombia. After the indigenous uprisings in the north of Cauca department that indigenous representatives called “territorial control actions”, a “Political Seminar for the Construction of a Social Solution and Peace Conference” was organized in the area on August 3 and 4.

Farming in Europe is increasingly dominated by monocultures and factory farms. So what does it mean to be a young small-scale farmer in this context? How can they get the power and resources to produce and distribute food sustainably?

Under the Israeli occupation, the Palestinian people have been denied access to and control over their land and natural resources, especially water, for decades. “Several studies estimate that the benefits for Israelis from natural resources in Palestinian territories amount to more than US$70 billion since 1967,” said the Chairperson of PENGON – Friends of the Earth Palestine , Dr. Abedelrahman&n...

The former head of DESA will be sentenced on 3 August. COPINH highlights that the masterminds still need to be prosecuted

The Latin American Coordination of Rural Organizations (CLOC-LVC) denounced the “arbitrary detention” by the Attorney General’s Office of Colombia of three well-known leaders of the National Agricultural Coordination (CNA) on December 15.

In early November, Elsa Nury Martínez, Chair of the National Agricultural Union Federation in Colombia (FENSUAGRO) and member of the Latin American Coordination of Rural Organisations (CLOC-Via Campesina), received death threats against her and her family.