Latest News Update
July 2, 2019
On the opening day of the G20 Summit, environmental NGOs gathered in Osaka city to demand Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, take effective measures against climate change and urgently phase-out coal. The G20 leaders appeared in the middle of Osaka on the day of G20...
May 24, 2019
Korean CSOs call on Korean Government and corporations to take immediate measures to stop serious deforestation and human rights violations in the palm oil industry Korea Federation for Environmental Movements (KFEM) and Advocates for Public Interest Law (APIL)...
May 14, 2019
6 May 2019, Paris: The world faces ecological collapse and mass extinctions unless dramatic action is taken to change social and economic systems, according to a global assessment launched today by The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and...
December 10, 2018
PRESS STATEMENT By and large, the seventy-year-old Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) remains a “secret document”, still unknown to most of the seven billion beings that the document says declares have rights simply by being human. Starting with the UDHR on...
August 9, 2018
PRESS STATEMENT Stop the violence against Indigenous Peoples; Recognise and Protect the rights of Indigenous Peoples August 09, 2018 Every year, since 1995, August 09 is observed as the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples where every person is...
June 14, 2018
PRESS STATEMENT June 14, 2018 Indian Government must prioritize life over profit; Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific denounces Tamil Nadu massacre and calls for Vedanta to be brought to account for environmental and human rights violations. Friends of the Earth Asia...
May 19, 2018
Friends of the Earth International and Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific are deeply aggrieved by news that dozens of Palestinians have been killed at the Gaza border during the official opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. On Monday 14 May, Israel used...
April 3, 2018
KELANTAN GOVERNMENT SHOULD RESPECT INDIGENOUS PEOPLES LAND RIGHTS The Kelantan State Authorities has been approving logging activities, monoculture plantation projects, land-use conversion to agriculture and mining in the Permanent Reserved Forests (PRF) in the east...
March 14, 2018
PRESS STATEMENT MARCH 14, 2018 STOP REDTAGGING AND CRIMINALISING DEFENDERS OF TERRITORIES Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific (FoE APac) condemns the use of anti-communist and anti-terror laws to silence environmental and indigenous rights activists in the Philippines...
December 24, 2017
In recent decades, Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, had 58 canals flowing through the city, fed by surrounding rivers and lakes. A recorded 50 of these canals worked as the city’s drainage system. The majority of these canals have since disappeared, with the...
December 10, 2017
Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific released the statement for December 10th Human Rights Day. We denounce the increasing number of Human Rights abuses against environmental & political activists, defenders of territories & collective rights. Our statement is...
November 10, 2017
-UNFCCC COP23, Bonn, Germany Seas are rising and many people forced to migrate in the Pacific islands, a fracking company takes a fancy to a drought stricken area, hurricanes cripple a whole country, walls and fences are built to block the free movement of people...
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