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The website of Friends of the Earth International - the world's largest grassroot's environmental network
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strategic guide: strategic tips for filing complaints with international financial institutions
- Friends of the Earth International and International Accountability Project, April 2004: This brochure is designed to provide an overview of some strategic considerations at stake in deciding whether to file a claim to the World Bank Inspection Panel, or to utilize any of the accountability mechanisms at other international financial institutions. It also provides guidance for claimants and their allies on navigating the process and strategic engagement after a claim has been filed.
- Life as Commerce
- Report on a side event on the impacts of the commodification of biological and cultural diversity organized by the Global Forest Coalition, in cooperation with the World Rainforest Movement, Oilwatch and Friends of the Earth International
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Flying with Big Business: The European Investment Bank and The Aviation Industry
- A report by Friends of the Earth International & CEE Bankwatch Network with contributions from Milieudefensie, Za Zemiata and HACAN ClearSkies, November 2003: The report examines the European Investment Bank’s (EIB) financial supporting of the aviation industry and looks closely at three case studies: 1. Schiphol Airport Extension, The Netherlands 2. Heathrow Airport Extension, United Kingdom 3. Sofia Airport, Bulgaria
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Extracts from the EIR draft report version II
- Friends of the Earth International, August 2003: From chapters 7, 8, 9: CONVERGING ISSUES AND DIVERGING VIEWS, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS from the World Bank Groups Environmental Impact Report.
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the world trade system: how it works and what’s wrong with it
- Friends of the Earth International, August 2003: This report offers a deep analysis of the current drive to liberalise trade promotes inequality, is undemocratic, and degrades the environment, social structures and cultural diversity. Critically, the underlying principles on which the free trade system is based are fundamentally flawed. The present trading system promotes the free movement of goods, services and capital as a goal in itself, rather than ensuring that such international trade promotes sustainable and equitable development.
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Playing with Hunger: The reality behind the shipment of GMOs as food aid
- Friends of the Earth International, July 2003: A controversy over genetically modified (GM) food aid arose in 2000 and grew increasingly in 2002, when several Southern African countries refused GM food aid during a food crisis. African countries were presented with a false choice of either accepting Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) or watch- ing people starve. This situation, where GM food aid was presented often as the only solution to hunger was advanced primarily by the US which is also aggressively marketing Genetically Modified (GM) crops in developing countries.
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Stop playing with hunger! - factsheet
- Friends of the Earth International, June 2003: The US Government is promoting GM crops as the primary solution to improving food security and solving hunger in developing countries. The US Administration and biotech corporations will be strongly promoting GM crops at the Ministerial. Friends of the Earth opposes the Bush administration position on this issue, and is calling on all Governments attending the Ministerial to challenge US and corporate pressure to accept and promote GM food. This paper exposes the problems around the shipment of US GM food aid to developing countries and the hypocrisy behind the US Government argument that GM crops are needed to solve hunger in Africa.
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water for life and livelihoods: briefing paper
- Friends of the Earth International, March 2003: This report is a detailed observation of the worlds growing crisis concerning fresh drinking water.
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Summary of OED Draft Review of the World Bank Group’s Activities in the Extractive Industries: Factoring in Governance
- Friends of the Earth International, January 2003: This report offers a devastating critique of the Bank’s basic strategy in the extractive industries in most of the countries in which it operates. If implemented, OED’s recommendations would require a radical transformation of the Bank’s current operations in the extractive industries.
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water justice for all: global and local resistance to the control and commodification of water
- Friends of the Earth International, January 2003: This report highlights the inequities in the way that water is consumed around the world.
