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Global Environmental Politics, Human Rights and Conflicts
Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) in collaboration with the Right Livelihood College, Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Center for Conflict and Gender Studies at the University of Port Harcourt organized the 2019 Right Livelihood Lecture on 28 May, 2019 with the...
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University Students Call for Alternatives to GMOs
Once again, students of Agriculture have called for a ban on products of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Nigeria. This call was made at the recent Dialogue organised by Health of Mother Earth Foundation with the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of...
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Reject Bill to Include Extreme Biotechnology in Biosafety Act-Experts Implore President Buhari
Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), the GMO-Free Nigeria Alliance and over 40 Non-Governmental Organizations representing millions of Nigerians have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to not sign into law, the recently passed Bill for an Act to amend the...
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Biodiversity-Key to Healthy Societies, Says HOMEF
The ecological Think Tank, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) in a statement which was made available to the media on 21 May 2019, to mark the International Day of Biodiversity called for concerted efforts towards the preservation of biodiversity and towards...
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HOMEF Dialogues with the Department of Climate Change, Federal Ministry of Environment on Geoengineering
Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) on 13th May 2019 met with officials at the Climate Change Department of the Federal Ministry of Environment in a roundtable session to discuss HOMEF’s concerns about Geoengineering (GE). HOMEF had on the 25th of February,...
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Students of Agriculture Reject GMOs; Call for Protection and Promotion of Indigenous Farming Systems
Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) in collaboration with the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Benin, Edo State on 30 April, 2019 organized a Dialogue with students to examine issues with food and farming systems in Nigeria; the implications of genetically...
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A Journey with Ken Saro-Wiwa
Conversation with Ken Saro-Wiwa took place at the offices of We The People in Port Harcourt on Thursday 25 April 2019. The room was packed out and yet more seats had to be brought in. One seat only had a book on it. That book was Silence Would by Treason – the last...
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Resolutions from Conference and Workshop on Seeds, Foods and Biosafety in Nigeria
Held at Apo Apartments, Apo, Abuja on 10/11 April 2019 The state of biosafety in Nigeria does require critical interrogations as concerns mount up about the implications of modern agricultural biotechnology. These concerns are further increased as Nigeria begins move...
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In memory of Larry Bowoto, community leader and human rights hero
We were greatly saddened to learn of the passing of Larry Bowoto, who died on Tuesday night in Nigeria, his home. Larry was the lead plaintiff in Bowoto v. Chevron Corp., a landmark human rights case in San Francisco, which EarthRights and others litigated for over 10...
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Memorandum on the Proposed NBMA Review to include Extreme Biotech
The CBD made a landmark decision as one of the outcomes of the Conference of Parties (COP14) of the UN Convention on Biological held in November 2018. The decision called on governments to conduct strict risk assessments and to seek indigenous and local peoples’...
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