425 posts
by HOMEf | Aug 1, 2013 | Fossil Politics
Two whole years after the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) issued a damning assessment of the Ogoni environment, the Ogoni people are forced to continue wallowing in the toxic broth...
by HOMEf | Jul 25, 2013 | Fossil Politics
“Since our people’s livelihoods have been destroyed through oil spillage and gas flaring, coupled with the poor quality of human potential owing to poor education, the easiest option is illegal...
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,...
by HOMEf | Jul 21, 2013 | Hunger Politics, Press Release
It is with shock and extreme disappointment that we note the position of two ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that the country should import and consume genetically modified...
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,...
by HOMEf | Jul 12, 2013 | Fossil Politics
Mining always leaves its footprints in both the sands of time and on the lives of the people and their lives. You may think you have seen it all- especially...
by HOMEf | Jul 5, 2013 | Hunger Politics
Myths and outright lies about the alleged benefits of genetically engineered crops (GE crops or GMOs) persist only because the multinationals that profit from them have put so much effort...
by HOMEf | Jun 30, 2013 | Fossil Politics, General
The United Nations climate negotiations in Bonn are more of the same and we are running out of time. Everybody recognizes that there is a “gap”, but there are no...
by HOMEf | Jun 25, 2013 | General
Nnimmo Bassey Eti uwem is a concept in Ibibio, one of the several languages in Nigeria, which literally means good life or good living. Within it is the idea of living in harmony with...
by HOMEf | Jun 19, 2013 | Ikike
HOME SCHOOL 01 with Ambassador Pablo Solon Gets Nearer Our inaugural Sustainability Academy also known as HOME School (HS01) kicks off on 19 August 2013 in Abuja with policy makers....
by HOMEf | Jun 14, 2013 | Fossil Politics
California’s climate change law, AB32, currently includes domestic REDD offsets, and may soon be broadened to also include international REDD offsets from countries like Mexico, Brazil and Nigeria. We denounce...
by HOMEf | Jun 13, 2013 | Hunger Politics
Civil society organisations from the SADC region, and around the world have condemned the SADC draft Protocol for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (Plant Breeders’ Rights) as spelling...