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- FoE Mozambique/Justiçia Ambiental!
- 'Justiça Ambiental’ (JA!) means environmental justice, while ‘JA’ means ‘now’, in Portuguese. JA! was formally registered in 2004, but founded in the late 1990s by a group of friends who were concerned about the manner in which Mozambique was developing in the unregulated global economy. In particular, we were concerned that our leaders were uncritically adopting a pattern of destructive foreign-investment-driven industrial development.
- Dutch Court ruling against Shell a partial victory
- THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS, January 30, 2013 – Today a Dutch court ruled that Shell Nigeria is responsible for polluting farmlands in a landmark case brought by four Nigerian farmers and Friends of the Earth Netherlands.
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Fact Sheet - Sime Darby and land grabs in Liberia
- The contracts for land concessions signed by Sime Darby and the Liberian Government violate several Human Rights principles in conventions ratified by the Liberian Government as well as principles enshrined in Liberian Law. Affected communities and civil society have organised to demand from the company and Liberian Government that communities’ rights are recognized and contracts between Sime Darby and the Government are renegotiated. Read more in this fact sheet.
- Summit of the Peoples - Santiago de Chile
- The Summit of the Peoples of Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe will take place in Santiago, Chile from January 25 to 27.
- Verdict due in case against Shell
- Four Nigerians who have been victims of multinational oil giant Shell’s polluting activities in the Niger Delta are striving for justice. They are hoping a Dutch court will issue a verdict in their favour on 30 January, as part of a ground-breaking legal case filed against the Anglo-Dutch oil corporation.
- Solidarity with the victims in the resistance against agribusiness in Argentina
- Friends of the Earth International, the world's largest federation of grassroots environmental groups, expresses its solidarity with the families of Cristian Ferreyra and Miguel Galván, members of the Peasant Movement of Santiago del Estero (MOCASE), and to all who support the fight against the advance of agribusiness in Argentina.
- Real World Radio: It Should Not Be a Secret
- Costa Rica: Ecologist Movement Challenges GM Law
- Real World Radio: “They Shall Not Pass”
- Uruguayan environmental activist warns about advance of agribusiness and land grabbing in the world
- Interactive map: forty years of struggles and successes
- Forty years is a long time to struggle - and struggles can sometimes seem endless when we are in the middle of them - but Friends of the Earth International’s fortieth anniversary offers us a wonderful opportunity to stand still for a moment, together with our friends and allies around the world, and simply reflect, marvel even, at just how much we - friends of the earth all - have achieved in the last four decades.
