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The website of Friends of the Earth International - the world's largest grassroot's environmental network
- 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.
- Friends of the Earth International report on Palestine welcomed at Eco-Justice conference
- Friends of the Earth International's support for the people of Palestine struggling against environmental violations of the Israeli occupation, was welcomed by participants at a three day conference in Bethlehem.
- our groups on the world map
- We are the world's largest grassroots environmental network, uniting 74 national member groups and some 5,000 local activist groups on every continent. With over 2 million members and supporters around the world, we campaign on today's most urgent environmental and social issues. We challenge the current model of economic and corporate globalization, and promote solutions that will help to create environmentally sustainable and socially just societies. Find out more about the group nearest you in our groups pages.
- Bulgaria
- Za Zemiata (For the Earth in English) is a Bulgarian environmental non-governmental organisation determined to work for self-sustainable lifestyles, for responsible personal and political decisions for our planet, while combating exploitation of people and nature.
- Social and environmental organizations expose new trade agreements between the EU and Central America, Peru, Colombia
- BRUSSELS (BELGIUM), SAN JOSE (COSTA RICA), December 11, 2012 – Today, in response to the European Parliament’s passing of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Colombia and Peru, and an Association Agreement with Central America, social and environmental organizations warn in a public statement [1] about the negative impacts of these agreements on the people and the environment [2].
- December 10 is international human rights day: FoEI remembers environmental activists
- Friends of the Earth International marks December 10 – the international day for human rights – by reflecting on the sacrifices and victories of environmental activists around the world. Human rights abuses perpetrated against environmental activists have gained more and more attention in recent times.
- Open letter from European Youth to Connie Hedegaard
- On the last day of the COP 18 UN climate talks, European youth gathered in Brussels have drafted this open letter to Connie Hedegaard, the EU commissioner for climate action. Please read the letter we have sent to her, and forward it far and wide.
