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News | Environmentalism | Aug 26, 2010
The world's first really green oil deal
Esmé McAvoy / The independentEcuador's $3.6bn scheme to save its rainforest from exploitation could point the way to sparing other threatened landscape
Press release | Environmentalism | Aug 25, 2010
Outrage at Shell-funded UN report on Nigeria oil spills
Friends of the Earth InternationalLAGOS (NIGERIA) / AMSTERDAM (THE NETHERLANDS), August 24, 2010 – Friends of the Earth International is outraged by reports that a major UN investigation into Nigeria oil spills funded by oil giant Shell relies more on figures produced by oil companies and Nigerian state statistics than on community testimony and organizations on the ground who work with communities. [1]
Analysis | Mining Industry | Jul 14, 2010
Mercury Poisoning, The Dark Side Of Colombia 's Gold Boom
Diana DelgadoColombia 's gold bonanza has a dark side, U.N. experts said on Tuesday: mercury poisoning spreading from miners to the population of a northwest state where they use mercury to extract the precious metal, U.N. experts said on Tuesday.
News | General | Jun 24, 2010
Peru leader rejects indigenous land rights law
BBC NewsPresident Alan Garcia of Peru has refused to sign a law that would give indigenous people more power to stop oil and mining projects on their lands.
News | Mining Industry | Jun 21, 2010
Indigenous Guatemalans to UN: No to mining, yes to life
The Esperanza Project
Analysis | Energetic Sovereignty | Jun 18, 2010
Brazilian Dams in Peru's Jungle, to Supply Brazil
Milagros Salazar / IPSNewsLIMA, Jun 17, 2010 (IPS) - An energy deal that Peru and Brazil signed this week in the Amazon city of Manaus in Brazil is opposed by environmentalists and local indigenous communities in Peru where the planned hydroelectric dams will be built. What is at stake?
Press release | Environmentalism | May 22, 2010
Biodiversity Lost at Unprecedented Rate
Friends of the Earth InternationalMay 22, 2010
BIODIVERSITY LOST AT UNPRECEDENTED RATE
On the day of biodiversity Friends of the Earth International calls for urgent action to tackle biodiversity loss
BIODIVERSITY LOST AT UNPRECEDENTED RATE
On the day of biodiversity Friends of the Earth International calls for urgent action to tackle biodiversity loss
News | Forests and biodiversity | May 07, 2010
Colombian Forest Project Reaps Credits... and Criticism
Stephen Leahy / Noticias IPSUXBRIDGE, Canada, May 6, 2010 (Tierramérica) - The "Procuenca Initiative" in the Andes region of western Colombia may be the first in the world to sell certified forest carbon credits with a biodiversity protection component. But alarms are sounding about the potential negative social and environmental consequences.
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Life as Commerce
The impact of market-based conservation on Indigenous Peoples, local communities and women
Press release | Mining Industry | Feb 26, 2010
Colombian Network Against Transnacional Mining is born
Colombian Network Against Transnacional Mining
News | Forests and biodiversity | Feb 15, 2010
Argentina's Agrofuels Start Their Engines
Marcela Valente / TierraméricaWith biodiesel from soybeans playing the leading role, Argentina is beginning to require plant-based fuel blends for all vehicles.
News | Mining Industry | Feb 15, 2010
Vedanta in India: Don’t mine us out of existence
Intercontinental Cry / Amnesty InternationalUK-based mining company Vedanta Resources threatens the human rights of indigenous communities in the Indian state of Orissa. Email the Indian authorities now: http://bit.ly/vedantareport
Denunciation | General | Dec 24, 2009
Legal kidnapping?
Radio Mundo RealInternational condemnation of detention of Palestine activist by Israeli forces
News | Climate Justice | Dec 21, 2009
COP15: A deficit of ambition
Friends of the Earth InternationalNnimmo Bassey, Chair of Friends of the Earth International sums up the last two weeks of climate talks in Copenhagen from the backroom deals to rise of the Climate Justice movement.
Video | Mining Industry | Dec 09, 2009
Video: Interview with Mariano Abarca Roblero, murdered for his resistence to mining
REMA
News | General | Dec 04, 2009
Honduras: An election validated by blood and repression
The Real News NetworkHonduran coup government continues repressive tactics on election day (Report from San Pedro Sula)
Denunciation | Mining Industry | Dec 02, 2009
México:Public condemnation of murder of Mariano Abarca
CENSAT AGUA VIVA - Amigos de la Tierra ColombiaCENSAT ‘Agua Viva’ strongly condemns the murder of Mariano Abarca
Analysis | General | Nov 20, 2009
Listen to the Earth, Say Indigenous Peoples
Valentina Martínez Valdés - IPSNewsMÉRIDA, Mexico, Nov 19 (IPS/IFEJ) - The idea of wilderness is "an interesting concept; it is a Western concept. Our people have always lived and interacted in the environment," said Illion Merculieff, an environmental activist from the Aleut community in the north-western U.S. state of Alaska
News | Energetic Sovereignty | Oct 28, 2009
Ecuador: Oil Giant Is Gone, Legal and Environmental Mess Remains
Matthew Berger / IPSNews.netWASHINGTON, Oct 28 (IPS) - The story began almost 40 years ago, but when filmmaker Joe Berlinger "saw villagers eating canned tuna fish because the fish in their rivers were too contaminated to eat, [he] knew [he] had to do something".
News | General | Oct 15, 2009
COLOMBIA: Indigenous People Troubled by U.S. Military Presence
Gustavo Capdevila - IPSGENEVA, Aug 13 (IPS) - The head of Colombia's biggest association of indigenous people is concerned that allowing U.S. troops to use military bases in his country will signal a regression to former times when the United States exercised control over Latin America, while a native activist warned of an increase in the number of cases of sexual abuse of young indigenous women by foreign soldiers.
Press release | General | Sep 04, 2009
Human rights NGOs and European civil society networks call on EU to take strong position regarding human rights violations in Honduras
FOEI, APRODEV, FIDH, CIFCA, FIAN, GRupoSurThe undersigned human rights NGOs and civil society networks condemn the violations of human rights by the de facto government in Honduras.
Denunciation | Mining Industry | Aug 06, 2009
African descent community faces eviction by Anglo Gold Ashanti in Colombia
PCN*URGENT ACTION!*
From the human rights team of the Process of Black in La Toma, in the
Suárez municipality in north Cauca, Colombia. La Toma´s Afro-descendant
inhabitants, Communities and other organisations declare:
From the human rights team of the Process of Black in La Toma, in the
Suárez municipality in north Cauca, Colombia. La Toma´s Afro-descendant
inhabitants, Communities and other organisations declare:
Denunciation | Energetic Sovereignty | Jul 29, 2009
Fian International, Friends of the Earth International and La Via Campesina condemn the forced eviction of the community of Las Pavas
Fian International, Friends of the Earth International and La Via Campesina27/07/2009. – FIAN International, Friends of the Earth International and La Via Campesina condemn the forced eviction that occurred on July 14, 2009 of 120 families settled in the rural area known as Las Pavas, located in the Buenos Aires district, jurisdiction of the municipality of El Peñón, in the South of the Bolivar province.
News | General | Jul 27, 2009
EU Presidency Statement on Honduras
EU PresidencyEuropean Presidency makes Statement on Honduras
News | Mining Industry | Jul 06, 2009
Gold Conflict in Colombia's Central Mountains
Helda Martínez / TierraméricaThe Colombian authorities could determine this month whether they will move forward on a giant gold mining project in a nature preserve in the central mountain range.
Press release | General | Jul 01, 2009
Europe Urged to reconsider its role in Central America
Friends of the Earth InternationalOn the day that the European Union was expected to announce the suspension of its new free trade negotiations with Central America, Friends of the Earth International calls for an end to the process of free trade negotiations that the EU is promoting in Central America, and recommends a full reconsideration by the EU of its role in the region
Denunciation | General | Jun 30, 2009
Friends of the Earth expresses its deep concern over situation in Honduras
Friends of the Earth InternationalFriends of the Earth Europe condemns the illegal expulsion of the Honduran President and expresses its solidarity with the democratic forces and the people of Honduras, as well as with Friends of the Earth Honduras / Movimiento Madre Tierra.
Denunciation | Climate Justice | Jun 23, 2009
Young Friends of the Earth comment on Bonn Climate talks
Young Friends of the Earth Europe / Friends of the Earth InternationalYoung Friends of the Earth write school reports on nation’s willingness to act on Climate Change during the recent Climate Talks in Bonn. Several of them get very bad notes..
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TWN Bonn News Update
TWN Bonn News Update
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