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Press 2016
Letter to Australian Prime Minister on charitable status of environmental organisations
Dear Prime Minister, I am writing to you on behalf of Friends of the Earth International to call on...
06 May, 2016FOEI declaration of support to the World March of Women
We react with strong indignation at the illegal deportation of our World March of Women sister, Eva Anadón Moreno,...
04 April, 2016Travel ban for Gustavo Castro Soto lifted
March 31, 2016 – After being prevented from leaving Honduras for 24 days, the director of Friends of the...
01 April, 2016Development financiers suspend Honduras operations after latest murder
Two major development finance companies involved in the construction of the controversial Agua Zarca dam announced they would suspend...
16 March, 2016Friends of the Earth International calls for the end of impunity of transnational corporations and financiers for their Human Rights violations
GENEVA (SWITZERLAND) March 11th 2016 – Activists from Friends of the Earth International, along with human rights and environmental...
11 March, 2016Concerns for the safety of the witness to Berta Cáceres’s murder
Update - 9 March 2016: Judge Victorina Flores of the First Court of Letters of La Esperanza, Intibucá, decided...
05 March, 2016High profile Honduran activist Berta Cáceres murdered
Berta Cáceres, 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize winner, was murdered last night in her home. Reportedly, her assassins waited until...
03 March, 2016WTO rules against renewable energy and jobs in India – Friends of the Earth reaction
Geneva, Switzerland, February 24 2016 - Today the World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruled against India’s National Solar mission, which...
24 February, 2016TransCanada’s Keystone XL suit illustrates problem with TPP, trade deals
AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS/ WASHINGTON, DC, January 7, 2016 -- Canadian pipeline company TransCanada gave notice Wednesday that it intends to...
07 January, 2016