• 27 July 2018 | News

  

  Voices are Action

  It´s Real World Radio´s 15th anniversary and we are celebrating it by making some changes

  On July 30th we will launch a new website with more digital security. Because more digital security means more technlogical sovereignty for the people. Read more

• 25 July 2018 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk

  

  Dangerous Funds

  Activists expose role of Dutch banks in the funding of palm oil industry development

  Milieudefensie – Friends of the Earth Netherlands launched a report where they warn that Dutch Banks ABN AMRO, ING and Rabobank have to take responsibility for the disastrous environmental and social consequences of providing finance to the palm oil sector at large scale. These banks should pull out of this sector, demands the organization. Read more

• 24 July 2018 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Land grabbing

  

  Greenwashing

  Bertrand Sansonnens, of Friends of the Earth Switzerland, on palm oil: “voluntary guidelines do not work, we need binding rules at global level”

  At the end of June, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), which gathers actors from several sectors of the palm oil industry, reported that they had suspended Swiss company Nestlé´s membership for failing to follow the RSPO´s Statutes and Code of Conduct. However, Nestlé “doesn´t seem to care”, warned Friends of the Earth International. Read more

• 19 July 2018 | Interviews | Social activists at risk

  

  Flowers in the Desert

  New multimedia project featuring 10 indigenous women leaders of Mexico

  Among the stories we find the one of Marichuy, spokesperson of the Indigenous Governing Council (CIG) Read more

• 19 July 2018 | Special reports

  

  Environment of Change

  In Havana, Cuba, social organizations and leftist parties share event and receive message from Lula

  The former Brazilian president, a political prisoner in that country, shared a video message where he highlighted the importance of the unity of leftist parties and social movements. Meanwhile, Friends of the Earth Latin America and the Caribbean outlined the role of the anticapitalist environmental struggle together with forces that push for system change. Read more

• 13 July 2018 | News | Financialization of nature | Monitoring transnationals | Land grabbing

  

  In Defense of Peruvian Mountains

  Peruvian government withdraws concession that had been granted on Siete Colores Mountain

  The National Agrarian Confederation denounces mining officials are “taking over the government”. Read more

• 13 July 2018 | Testimonies | Financialization of nature | Monitoring transnationals

  

  Chevron-Texaco Never Again

  The oil corporation will have to compensate the people affected by the pollution caused in the Amazon

  Ecuador´s Constitutional Court has rejected the protection appeal filed by Chevron in 2014. Read more

• 6 July 2018 | Testimonies

  

  Israel’s attempt to demolish Palestinian village Khan al Ahmar contravenes international law

  Israeli forces are forcibly displacing Palestinians as they attempt to demolish the Bedouin village of Khan al Ahmar in the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces are dragging away residents and protesters and attacking people as they resist being forcibly displaced from their homes. The Palestinian Red Crescent has reported 35 people wounded, with four taken to hospital. Our comrades at the Israeli rights group B’Tselem report nine people have been arrested. Read more

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