Civil society spaces are shrinking. Environmental and human rights defenders face more and more criminalisation. We stand in solidarity with people facing injustice and cooperate across borders to create more sustainable, caring, democratic and equal global society.
Declaration on the abusive use of legal proceedings to silence activists in Armenia
Civil society in Armenia is being silenced by Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation lawsuits (SLAPP), abusive legal cases used to intimidate journalists or activists who exercise their freedom of expression and information on matters of public interest. Since 2018, activists and protesters in Armenia have been issued with an alarming 30 SLAPP suits by mining …
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Statement: Threat to Georgian civil society – foreign agent law proposal
Friends of the Earth Europe deeply condemns a proposed bill in Georgia that will suppress NGO’s and independent media organisations in the country. The Georgian ruling party intends to go ahead with the adoption of the ‘foreign agent’ bill. A piece of legislation that will classify almost any type of civil society organisation as “bearing …
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Bosnia & Herzegovina: solidarity with Kasindolska river activists
Sun?ica Kova?evi? and Sara Tuševljak, two law students from Bosnia & Herzegovina, are being sued by the Belgian-based company Green Invest for fighting against the construction of a toxic hydropower plant and defending the Kasindolska river, East Sarajevo. Members of the Friends of the Earth network, gathered in Banja Luka for a five-day meeting on …
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Study: International solidarity and the struggle against corporate power
This report examines the definition of collective rights and how they relate to the defence of human rights through an environmental justice perspective. It provides reflections from Latin America on COVID-19 and corporate violations of human – and collective rights. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed how unviable neoliberalism – from its doctrine to its actions …
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Solidarity with Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia
War is the worst thing that can happen to people and to nature. The devastating impact of war on people and the environment is being horrifically exemplified by the events of the Russian government aggression in Ukraine. Russian troop attacks on nuclear power plants, seaports, hazardous waste storage facilities, oil depots, gas stations, landfill sites, …
