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May 28, 2020
Japanese environmental NGOs, including Friends of the Earth Japan, have submitted a petition to the Japanese public and private sectors for the cancellation of the Vung Ang 2 Coal-fired Power Generation Project in Vietnam. The petition was signed by 127 organizations...
April 26, 2020
In light of International Seeds Day today, we want to plant a seed of hope for a better planet. Covid-19 has revealed the urgent need for system change and solidarity. It has shown that all our struggles are interconnected. It has been more than a month since the...
April 24, 2020
Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) is gravely concerned to learn that the National Health Commission of China has recommended the use of bear bile in the treatment of severe and critical cases of COVID-19. This move is a blow to conservationists worldwide, as on...
April 3, 2020
Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) has been receiving reports from indigenous communities in interior Sarawak, which describe how the movement control order (MCO) has affected them. The communities are currently anxious over the dwindling supply of essential food items,...
March 19, 2020
It is well known that river lobsters are the main catch for 200 to 300 riverine fishers in the Kerian River in Nibong Tebal, regardless of whether they are full time or part-time fishers. Their daily income and catch depend on the harvest from the river. At present,...
March 11, 2020
Nine years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami struck the Tohoku region, causing the TEPCO Daiichi nuclear power plant accident. The impacts of this nuclear accident continue to this day.Radiation from the accident contaminated a...
February 4, 2020
Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) calls on the Federal government and its relevant agencies to ensure that there is complete transparency and public feedback and consultations before approving any permanent disposal facility (PDF) of Lynas Corporation for its water leach...
January 23, 2020
Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific urgently calls on the Government of Nepal to immediately launch an independent and thorough investigation into the murder of Dilip Kumar Mahato, which occurred early on 10 January 2020. We strongly condemn this tragic event, and...
December 12, 2019
Seoul, December 12, 2019 – Today Korean Transnational Corporations Watch (KTNC Watch), Yayasan Pusaka (Indonesia), WALHI Papua (Indonesia), and SKP KAMe (Indonesia), filed a complaint at Korea’s National Contact Point (NCP) for the OECD (Organization for Economic...
December 9, 2019
Today, on International Human Rights Day, Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific (FoE Asia Pacific) launches its latest publication, Defending Territories, Defending Our Lives – a grim reminder that everyday, somewhere on this planet, environmental human rights...
October 11, 2019
Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific stands with the Indonesian Civil Society Coalition for Human Rights Defenders Protection in urgently calling on the Indonesian government to immediately launch an independent, thorough investigation of Golfrid Siregar’s death.Golfrid...
September 23, 2019
Monoculture plantations in the face of climate emergency September 21 is the International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Tree Plantations, a day for civil society and community movements around the world to honor the resistance against the expansion of...
