With biodiesel from soybeans playing the leading role, Argentina is beginning to require plant-based fuel blends for all vehicles.

International condemnation of detention of Palestine activist by Israeli forces

Nnimmo 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.

Honduran coup government continues repressive tactics on election day (Report from San Pedro Sula)

CENSAT ‘Agua Viva’ strongly condemns the murder of Mariano Abarca

WASHINGTON, 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".

GENEVA, 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.

The undersigned human rights NGOs and civil society networks condemn the violations of human rights by the de facto government in Honduras.

*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:

27/07/2009. – 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.

On 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

Young 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..