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Despite COVID19 limitations, civil society drives momentum for historic UN binding treaty.
Press release issued by the Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity.
Read MoreOil company Total back in Court for human rights violations in Uganda
First of its kind appeal hearing starts in France
Read MoreStop corporations profiting from the pandemic. Stop ISDS.
Our call to suspend all ISDS cases during and beyond the COVID-19 crisis.
Read More‘Junk agroecology’: How corporations are co-opting peoples’ solutions to the food crisis
Report exposes how agribusiness corporations like Nestle, Cargill, Unilever and Pepsico, together with the World Economic Forum, are using public private ‘sustainable agriculture’ initiatives to promote an environmentally and socially destructive model of food production, while undermining genuinely sustainable food systems and their democratic governance.
Read MoreGlobal coalition releases liability roadmap for governments to Make Big Polluters Pay
WORLDWIDE – Today, a global coalition released a “liability roadmap”: a first-of-its-kind tool outlining how local to global decision makers, including government officials, can hold polluting industries liable for the climate damage they knowingly cause, while unlocking climate finance needed to address the climate crisis and implement solutions. This roadmap, released just one week before…
Read MoreSecond revised draft of UN binding treaty has “lost its soul”
Global Campaign statement on the second revised draft of the binding instrument to regulate the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises with regard to human rights
Read MoreInternationalist solidarity with the Garifuna community in Honduras
Friends of the Earth International condemns and voices deep concern and outrage over the kidnapping of four comrades from Triunfo de la Cruz community in Honduras: Alberth Snaider Centeno Tomas (Chair of the Board of Trustees), Milton Joel Martínez Alvarez, Suami Aparicio Mejía and Alber Sentana Thomas. Our letter to the Honduran government From the…
Read MoreFood Sovereignty and Agroecology in Uruguay
From discourse to action: safeguarding native seeds and agroecology in the fight against agribusiness in Uruguay.
Read MoreThe military model destroying the Brazilian Amazon
“Scorched land is basically vacant land, it has nothing on it. This allows speculation to come in to play. Forested lands can be made in to preservation areas, but once scorched, the lands become empty, and ready for more people to come and grab them.” This is Sávio Freitas Araújo, a peasant farmer and student…
Read MoreFriends of Earth International condemns Israel’s plan to annex the major part of the Palestinian West Bank
Friends of the Earth International condemns Israel’s move to forcefully annex significant parts of the occupied Palestinian territories from 1 July 2020. The forced annexation plan would control Palestinian lands and natural resources, and isolate Palestinian communities in the governorates of the occupied West Bank. It would also undermine and violate most importantly the Geneva…
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