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by HOMEf | Oct 12, 2014 | Fossil Politics, Press Release
Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) welcomes the agreement by Shell, to pay a penalty of about 55 million Pounds Sterling (about N16bn) to 15, 600 Bodo fishermen and community...
by HOMEf | Oct 6, 2014 | Fossil Politics
A clear message is coming from mining affected communities the world-over: No More! In a statement released today by the growing Yes to Life, No to Mining movement – a...
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...
by HOMEf | Aug 9, 2014 | Fossil Politics
Reported by Cadmus Atake, Zaid Shopeju and Oluwafunmilayo Oyatogun Before the sun rose in the Ogoni sky, veterans of epic ecological struggles were already making their way to Bori, to...
by HOMEf | Jul 23, 2014 | Hunger Politics
By Nnimmo Bassey , Million Belay and Mariam Mayet The recent article, GM scaremongering in Africa is disarming the fight against poverty, published in the Guardian’s (London) PovertyMatters Blog on...
by HOMEf | May 25, 2014 | Ikike
The Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) held its sustainability academy from May 20 – 24, 2014, visiting three cities over a period of five days. In continuing with the...
by HOMEf | Mar 30, 2014 | Ikike
The third in the series of Health of Mother Earth’s Sustainability Academy #03 (HOME School #03) is here! Keeping with established traditions, HOME School #03 will be holding in three...
by HOMEf | Mar 12, 2014 | Fossil Politics, Press Release
Nairobi – The No REDD in Africa Network (NRAN) and hundreds of international allies strongly condemn the massive evictions and forced relocation of the Sengwer Indigenous Peoples Programme, as well...
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...
by HOMEf | Dec 6, 2013 | Fossil Politics, Press Release
Bali, Indonesia – December 6th, 2013 We, the undersigned Indigenous Peoples, peasants, fisherfolks, immigrants, women, youth, cooks and civil society of the world gathered in Bali to protest the WTO,...
by HOMEf | Dec 2, 2013 | Hunger Politics
Being overweight has long been associated with eating preferences as well as sedentary and less active lifestyles. For long obesity, as well as the problem of being overweight, was seen...
by HOMEf | Nov 30, 2013 | Ikike
During the Roundtable on the UNEP Report held in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, on Wednesday 28 November 2013, Celestine Akpobari made a telling statement, “To destroy a people, you destroy their...