June 24

• Liberia: European Investments Assist Land Grabs in Liberia

  BRUSSELS (BELGIUM) / MONROVIA (LIBERIA) - European banks, pension funds and private equity funds have given financial assistance worth more than €450 million to Malaysian palm... Read more »

June 19

• Nigeria: Nigeria - Oil Giant Shell Criticized Over Nigeria Pipelines 'Sabotage' Claims

  Claims by Shell that sabotage is responsible for most oil spilt in Nigeria have come under fire. A Dutch agency found that the oil giant's statements were based on disputed... Read more »

June 17

• Africa: Governments Urged to Limit Weed Killer Found in Humans

  Friends of the Earth International today urged governments around the world to limit the use of the weed killer glyphosate, after laboratory test results released last week showed... Read more »

May 21

• Uganda: European Banks and Pensions Funds Fuel Land Grabs in Uganda

  European banks and pension funds are funding palm oil giant Wilmar International, a company implicated in land grabbing in Uganda, according to new research released today. [1] Read more »

May 08

• Africa: Everest 'Climbing for Climate Justice' Expedition Aims to Break World Records

  A Nepalese expedition 'Climbing for Climate Justice' led by four-time world record climber Pemba Dorje Sherpa will ascend Mount Everest (Nepal) from May 10, 2013. Read more »

February 01

• Liberia: Land Grabs and Human Rights Violations Exposed in Liberia Ahead of Global Development Summit [press release]

  Palm oil companies are grabbing more than 1.5 million acres of land in Liberia and are violating the human rights of local communities, warn Liberian NGOs including Friends of the... Read more »

January 30

• Nigeria: Dutch Court Ruling Against Shell a Partial Victory [press release]

  Today a Dutch court ruled that Shell Nigeria is responsible for polluting farmlands in a landmark case brought by four Nigerian farmers and Friends of the Earth Netherlands. The... Read more »

November 30, 2012

• Africa: Investors Must Stop Land Grabbing, Say Civil Society Groups

  Major farmland investors such as banks and pension funds must stop facilitating land grabs, say civil society groups  on the eve of a global farmland investment conference in... Read more »

November 04, 2012

• Nigeria: Foei Chair Nnimmo Bassey Awarded 2012 Rafto Prize for Human Rights [press release]

  Friends of the Earth International, the world's largest federation of grassroots environmental organisations, is proud to announce that its chair, Nnimmo Bassey, who is also... Read more »

October 19, 2012

• Africa: UN Biodiversity Talks Favor False Solutions to Biodiversity Crisis

  After two weeks of talks, the United Nations Biodiversity Conference [1] comes to a close here today with Friends of the Earth International criticizing negotiators for focusing on... Read more »

October 16, 2012

• Africa: Food Crisis Talks - Govts Should Scrap Biofuels, Not Push GM Crops [press release]

  As Governments gather in Rome today, World Food Day, to discuss the global food price crisis, Friends of the Earth International warns in a new report that agriculture donors such... Read more »

October 12, 2012

• Africa: Biodiversity Talks Should Oppose 'Financialization' of Nature [press release]

  While ministers start gathering here ahead of a second week of United Nations Biodiversity talks [15-19 October], preparing to discuss where to garner billions of dollars needed to... Read more »

October 11, 2012

• Nigeria: Shell Verdict Expected in January [press release]

  For the first time in history, a Dutch court verdict is expected about the case of a European company, Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell, which appeared in court today to account for... Read more »

September 26, 2012

• Nigeria: Key Hearing in Court Case On Oil Giant Shell's Nigerian Oil Pollution [press release]

  For the first time in history, a European company, Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell, will appear in a Dutch court to account for damage it caused abroad, Friends of the Earth... Read more »

September 25, 2012

• Africa: Green Revolution Promotes False Solutions to Hunger in Africa [press release]

  Donors controlling the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) are representing the interests of biotechnology corporations rather than African small farmers, warns... Read more »

June 22, 2012

• Africa: Rio+20 Summit Condemned As Sell Out of People and the Planet [analysis]

  Friends of the Earth International today strongly condemned world leaders for selling out people and the planet in their Rio+20 declaration which falls way short of the action... Read more »

• Africa: Rio+20 - Protest Against 'The Future Corporations Bought'

  Friends of the Earth International delegates joined on June 21 a key protest by a group of young people and civil society organisations denouncing world leaders' failure to tackle... Read more »

June 20, 2012

• Africa: Rio+20 Declaration - a Gift to Corporate Polluters [press release]

  The deal on the table at the Rio+20 Summit [1] does nothing to address the environmental and social crises that the world is facing; it simply allows multinational corporations to... Read more »

June 19, 2012

• Africa: Rio+20 - Friends of the Earth International to Meet With UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon - 'Stop the Business Lobby At the UN'

  On June 22 Friends of the Earth International chair Nnimmo Bassey will meet UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and deliver a civil society statement denouncing the corporate... Read more »

June 18, 2012

• Africa: New Report Exposes 'Corporate Capture' of the UN

  On June 19, 2012, on the eve of a key United Nations Summit due to take place June 20-22 in Rio De Janeiro [1], Friends of the Earth International launched a new report exposing... Read more »

• Africa: Rio+20 Summit Under Corporations' Undue Influence [press release]

  One the eve of the Rio+20 United Nations Earth Summit [1] on June 20-22, Friends of the Earth International warns world leaders that multinational corporations such as oil giant... Read more »

June 16, 2012

• Africa: Rio+20 Summit Must Listen to People's Summit

  While world leaders and the business sector gather for the Rio+20 Earth Summit due to take place here on June 20-22 [1], Friends of the Earth International campaigners are... Read more »

June 15, 2012

• Mozambique: Rio Summit Participant Denied Entry in Brazil

  A participant of the UN Summit in Rio de Janeiero was denied entry into Brazil by the Brazilian authorities. Read more »

June 04, 2012

• Africa: Reclaim the United Nations Campaign Starts Today

  Tomorrow, on World Environment Day, just two weeks before a major United Nations (UN) Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Friends of the Earth International starts a campaign urging the UN... Read more »

May 24, 2012

• Africa: Deforestation Threatens Biodiversity Efforts

  The continuing failure to prevent catastrophic deforestation is hampering global efforts to reverse the loss of biodiversity and has become a major threat to forest-dependent... Read more »