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Key hearing in court case on oil giant Shell’s Nigerian oil pollution
THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS, OCTOBER 10, 2012 -- For the first time in history, a European company, Anglo-Dutch oil...
10 October, 2012Nnimmo Bassey to be awarded Rafto prize for human rights
BERGEN (NORWAY) / LAGOS (NIGERIA), September 27, 2012 – Friends of the Earth International chair Nnimmo Bassey will be...
27 September, 2012Gates foundation-led green revolution promotes false solutions to hunger in Africa
Friends of the Earth International warns against damaging industrial farming promoted by the Gates Foundation at the Agricultural Green...
25 September, 2012Rio+20: protest against ‘the future corporations bought’
RIO DE JANEIRO (BRAZIL), June 22, 2012 – Friends of the Earth International delegates joined on June 21 a...
22 June, 2012Rio+20 summit condemned as sell out of people and the planet
RIO DE JANEIRO (BRAZIL), June 22, 2012-- Friends of the Earth International today strongly condemned world leaders for selling...
22 June, 2012Rio+20 declaration: a gift to corporate polluters
RIO DE JANEIRO (BRAZIL), June 20, 2012 – The deal on the table at the Rio+20 Summit [1] does...
20 June, 2012New Report Exposes ‘Corporate Capture’ of the UN
RIO DE JANEIRO (BRAZIL) – On June 19, 2012, on the eve of a key United Nations Summit due...
19 June, 2012Rio+20: Friends of the Earth international to meet with UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon: “stop the business lobby at the UN”
RIO DE JANEIRO (BRAZIL), 19 June 2012 – On June 22 Friends of the Earth International chair Nnimmo Bassey...
19 June, 2012Rio+20 summit under corporations’ undue influence
RIO DE JANEIRO (BRAZIL), JUNE 18, 2012 – One the eve of the Rio+20 United Nations Earth Summit [1]...
18 June, 2012Rio+20 summit must listen to people’s summit
RIO DE JANEIRO (BRAZIL), JUNE 16, 2012 – While world leaders and the business sector gather for the Rio+20...
16 June, 2012