by HOMEf | Nov 1, 2014 | General
We are glad to announce the commencement of our Community Dialogues (CD). These are diagnostic exercises that provide space for community members to review the environmental situation of their communities and to identify needed areas of action to preserve/defend their...
by HOMEf | Sep 30, 2014 | General
Renowned Nigerian activist and poet, and long term Gaia ally, Nnimmo Bassey, has been honoured as a Member of the Order of the Federal Republic (MFR) in Nigeria. The recognition comes for his long-term commitment to environmental justice. One of Africa’s leading...
by HOMEf | Jan 31, 2014 | General
January 31, 2014 Last year the Government of Kenya was getting “ready” for REDD in the Embobut Forest, now it is violently evicting the Sengwer People and forcing them “into extinction.” According to Survival International, “as many as a...
by HOMEf | Aug 30, 2013 | General
Launched in 1995, the World Trade Organization (WTO) completed the Bretton Woods trio with the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund in promoting neoliberalism and corporate globalization. The WTO was particularly special in its power to legally enforce and...
by HOMEf | Jul 23, 2013 | General
NORWICH DECLARATION ON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: Money Can’t Buy Environmental Justice 10/07/2013 THIS DECLARATION EMERGED FROM A WORKSHOP HELD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA IN NORWICH, ENGLAND ON JUNE 20-22, 2013, ON GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE. WE, AN INTERNATIONAL...
by HOMEf | Jul 16, 2013 | General
When we speak of Nigeria, and of the Nigerian people’s inspired resistance to the devastation wrought by multinational oil companies such as Shell, the name of the late, and great, Ken Saro-Wiwa is inescapable. But many others have continued to toil in the shadows...
