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EU fails human rights but stands strong for investor rights
GENEVA/ BRUSSELS, July 8 – The European Parliament today expressed its support for the TTIP trade negotiations between the...
08 July, 2015Nigeria palm oil land grab exposes need for human rights treaty
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, July 8, 2015 – A new report on palm oil land grabs in Nigeria by Asia’s leading agribusiness...
08 July, 2015Activists Campaign for Binding Human Rights Treaty at the UN
GENEVA (SWITZERLAND) 2 July 2015 – Environmental defenders and human rights campaigners attending a key UN gathering tasked with...
02 July, 2015Time to act on climate, ministers told at UN climate assembly
NEW YORK, USA, June 29, 2015 -- Today ministers from around the world gathered at the UN General Assembly...
30 June, 2015Agroecology boosted at pioneering meeting
BRASILIA (BRAZIL), 23 June 2015 – We have reached a landmark moment for the global recognition of ‘agroecology’ as...
23 June, 2015Pope says climate crisis is a matter of justice – reaction
18 June 2015 – Today, responding to the publication of Pope Francis’ papal encyclical on the environment [1], Friends...
18 June, 2015Campaigners mobilize for U.N. treaty to address corporate human rights abuses
GENEVA (SWITZERLAND) 16 June 2015 – Human rights and environmental rights campaigners attending the UN Human Rights Council, UNHRC,...
16 June, 2015UN climate talks close with insufficient progress
BONN, GERMANY, 11 June 2015 – As two weeks of UN climate talks come to a close here today,...
11 June, 2015African and French civil society challenge French funding of dirty energy
JOHANNESBURG (SOUTH AFRICA) / PARIS (FRANCE), 13th May 2015 -- This Friday, 15th of May, over a thousand protesters,...
13 May, 2015Contributions to Green Climate Fund alarmingly low
WASHINGTON, DC, May 1st, 2015 – Friends of the Earth International today demanded that developed nations provide the Green...
01 May, 2015