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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...
12 December, 2012Doha climate talks: industrialised countries block climate action
DOHA, QATAR, December 8, 2012 – Friends of the Earth International has strongly condemned the governments of industrialised countries...
08 December, 2012Investors must stop land grabbing, say civil society groups
LONDON (UK), November 30, 2012 – Major farmland investors such as banks and pension funds must stop facilitating land...
30 November, 2012New report: smartphones devastating Indonesian island people, forests, and corals
LONDON (UK) / BANGKA (INDONESIA) 24 November 2012 – Smartphones sold by best-selling brands almost certainly contain tin from...
24 November, 2012International mission in Guatemala and El Salvador: ‘transnational corporations pillage natural resources and violate human rights’
SAN SALVADOR (EL SALVADOR), November 19, 2012 - An international mission organized by environmental federation Friends of the Earth...
19 November, 2012FoEI chair Nnimmo Bassey awarded 2012 Rafto prize for human rights
BERGEN (NORWAY) / LAGOS (NIGERIA), November 4, 2012 – Friends of the Earth International, the world's largest federation of...
04 November, 2012UN biodiversity talks favor false solutions to biodiversity crisis
HYDERABAD, INDIA, October 19, 2012 - After two weeks of talks, the United Nations Biodiversity Conference [1] comes to...
19 October, 2012Food crisis talks: governments should scrap biofuels, not push gm crops
ROME (ITALY) / LONDON (UK), October 16, 2012 – As Governments gather in Rome today, World Food Day, to...
16 October, 2012Biodiversity talks should oppose ‘financialization’ of nature
HYDERABAD, INDIA, October 12, 2012 - While ministers start gathering here ahead of a second week of United Nations...
12 October, 201230 January: verdict expected in court case on oil giant Shell’s Nigerian oil pollution
THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS, OCTOBER 11, 2012 -- For the first time in history, a Dutch court verdict is...
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