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June 15, 2021
In May 2021, a fire broke out onboard MV X-Press Pearl, a Singaporean container ship near Colombo harbor, causing severe damage to the ocean and coastal belt. Since the disaster, the coastline has been inundated with dead marine life, and micro-plastic nurdles have...
June 11, 2021
NEW REPORT from The Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center (LRC)/Friends of the Earth Philippines. Our new paper, “Locked In, Locked Out: Indigenous Peoples Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic,” has found that Indigenous Peoples (IPs) are suffocating...
June 1, 2021
On 17 April 2021, Bangladeshi police clashed with peaceful demonstrators at the Banshkhali Coal Power Plant in Chattogram, killing 7 workers. The power plant is a joint venture between Bangladeshi industrialists S Alam Group, and Chinese companies SEPCO III Power...
May 22, 2021
It has been a month since police opened fire on a workers peaceful demonstration at the under-construction Banshkhali Coal Power plant in Bangladesh. They were defending their worker’s rights and payment of their overdue salary. Real World Radio recently spoke with...
May 20, 2021
Friends of the Earth International condemns the ongoing Israeli attacks on Palestine, including the outrageous targeting of women and children, civilian structures, the bombing of densely populated areas, and attacks on media buildings that threaten the international...
May 18, 2021
On Monday, 5 April 2021, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksha issued a gazette banning oil palm cultivation in Sri Lanka (gazette No. 2222/13). President Rajapaksha stated that “representations have been made to me that the oil palm cultivation already...
May 11, 2021
In an en banc resolution, the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) denounced the use of the term ‘Lumad.’ Lumad is a term for non-Moro indigenous peoples in Mindanao. According to the resolution, “the term lumad was chosen to control the...
Friends of the Earth International’s commitment to preventing violence and sexual harassment in our federation. We strive for a world without violence against women in all spheres of life – at work, in public and in private. Our struggle for system change, based on...
May 4, 2021
The Forest Service plans to allow 72% of forests across the country to be logged as part of a “2050 Carbon-Neutral Forestry Sector” plan. Despite Forest Service’s claims, older trees retain higher carbon absorption capacity. Trees have ecological value beyond carbon...
April 19, 2021
From Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center (LRC)/Friends of the Earth Philippines As the Bangsamoro edges closer to its long-held aspiration for full autonomy, non-Moro Indigenous Peoples (NMIPs) are in danger of becoming a “minority within a...
Months after the pandemic struck, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said the Government of the Philippines would pursue mining as an economic recovery strategy for the country. It has delivered on this promise with the issuance of Executive...
In a recent submission by a joint Non-Government Organization Group (Centre for Environmental Law and Community Rights Inc, Bismarck Ramu Group, Evangelical Lutheran Church and Ozeanien Dialog) to the United Nations’ Periodic Review Committee, the group has put...
