We stand in solidarity with #RightLivelihood Laureate and its co-founder Ritwick Dutta who are facing a criminal case in #India 🇮🇳 on alleged violations of the Foreign Contribution Act.
Their work towards social and environmental justice must continue unabated ✊
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11 May 2023
Update re. Temporary Stop Order
Letter of concern about delay sent to the Civil Court.
Every day of delay increases risks to our living environment and right to a safe and sustainable future.
#DhivehiMiveshi
#Miveshi
#StopGulhifalhuEcocide
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According to statistics from , plastic waste represents roughly 10 percent of the six million tonnes of waste produced every day in Cameroon and its effects are extremely hazardous as some of it still gets burned. #Plasticfreecity #plasticpollution
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Video de con nuestra directora Ana Lucia Maya Aguirre, ex becaria Fulbright, sobre la importancia de estudiar postgrados sobre cambio climático y su experiencia como becaria.
Interpretación en lengua de señas
#BeFulbright
👉bit.ly/CharlaFullbrig
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Congratulations to the communities in Ecuador's Intag Valley that recently secured a court order canceling a license to mine copper in one of the world's most #biodiverse forests! Read more: bit.ly/intagvalleyecu
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As global temperatures shoot up,
ramps up dredging+reclamation works with #Dutch corporations #Boskalis & #VanOord
with projects that will completely destroy or decimate marine protected areas in multiple locations.
#StopGulhifalhuEcocide
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🚨 The East African Court of Justice reserves judgment on jurisdiction objection in the #EACOP case. The case challenges environmental, social justice, and climate justice concerns. The ruling is to be handed down in June/August 2023. 🌍👥💪#StopEACOP!
stopeacop.net/our-news/east-
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Announcing the 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize winners. 🌎🏆
Discover their stories: goldmanprize.org
#GoldmanPrize
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Water sources in Buliisa have been submerged due to floods from 's Tilenga CPF Area, communities say. This compromises community health as women & girls look for water elsewhere, including from unsafe sources. #StoptheFloods #UgandaHealthExhibition
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On Earth Day, I condemn India's completely inappropriate persecution of the superb environmental lawyer Ritwick Dutta and the Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE). Dutta is a hero battling for human rights and a sustainable future.
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Congratulations to the 2023 winners! Discover the stories of six grassroots environmental leaders who prove that ordinary people can
have an extraordinary impact on the planet. 🏆🌎 #GoldmanPrize2023 goldmanprize.org/2023
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Reflecting, from #Guyana, on the Deepwater Horizon blowout. bit.ly/43QiIiK #guyana #KeepItInTheGround
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Empowering Indigenous Women in Climate Action: Exploring Opportunities and Strategies in Accessing Climate and Biodiversity Finance #climatefinance #greenwashing #indigenouswomenadvocates #indigenouswomenleaders #indigenousknowledge #indigenousexpertise
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📌 Ya está disponible el #InformeCEMDA2022 sobre la situación de personas y comunidades defensoras de los derechos ambientales en México. 🔗 cemda.org.mx/informe-2022/
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I look forward to speaking at UN OHCHR event "United Nations treaty bodies: Comparative experience for the implementation and compliance of the #EscazuAgreement".
🗓19/4 11am Argentina time
💻youtube.com/ONUderechos
Simultaneous interpretation Spanish-English
#COP2 Side event
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@ONU_derechos estará en la #COP2 del #AcuerdoDeEscazú
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Acompáñanos en el evento paralelo “Los órganos de tratados de las #NacionesUnidas: experiencia comparada para la aplicación y cumplimiento del Acuerdo”.
19/04
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Verifying status of Individual Forest Rights and Community Forest Rights in Odisha.
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Join us in welcoming our new #ELAWFellows -- Fatima Diallo #Senegal, Ahmed Elseidi #Egypt, Frank Tumusiime #Uganda elaw.org/welcome-elaw-f
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"The deep sea is nothing less than the common heritage of humankind.” bit.ly/41Bg920 #Jamaica #StopDeepSeaMining
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"Many Canadian oil companies advertise that their operations will be “net-zero by 2050” – but don’t mention that this rosy calculation fails to count greenhouse gases from end use of the oil and gas." bit.ly/3L7HwLY #Canada #KeepItInTheGround
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Interview with #ELAWPartner Olivier Ndoole: "Collaboration with our neighbouring countries Rwanda and Uganda is necessary to protect our common forests and wild animals, but the lack of clear public policies is preventing that." bit.ly/3UKYnHH #DRC
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FEDEV attends a public hearing on an Environmental Impact Assessment to exploit a quarry in Biou by CIMENCAM from the 10th to the 15th of April 2023 at the Limidad of Biou.
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Marine reclamation in #Maldives :
#Debt, destruction and damage in a #ClimateEmergency.
The superficial✔️box approach to EIAs plus their lack of integrity tells us that ecosystem #LossAndDamage is not an important concern to #Maldives authorities.
#SaveMaldives🪸🐟🦈🐠🌴🎣🌊💙
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Marine reclamation in #Maldives :
#Debt, destruction and damage in a #ClimateEmergency
"CORAL RELOCATION"
IS PURE, UNADULTERATED #GREENWASHING.
Promoted by dredging corportns & tourism tycoons to #MvCoralGrab!
'Coral relocation' is actually #MarineDeforestation.
#SaveMaldives🌊
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The believes that ordinary people
can have an extraordinary impact for the planet.🌎Tune into the live ceremony on Monday, April 24, at 5:30 pm PDT / 8:30 pm EDT on the #GoldmanPrize YouTube channel youtube.com/goldmanprize
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Zero Waste goes beyond individual lifestyle changes; it’s ultimately a system that can end the plastic pollution crisis by addressing the problem at the source. 🙌🏾
#InternationalZeroWasteDay2023 #BreakFreeFromPlastic
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Some alarming reports from Thar:
Water testing was conducted for 9 locations (visible on the map) around Thar coal mining operations. The water results show that many toxic chemical elements are found far beyond the permissible limits set by WHO and the Sindh-EPA EQSs. #SaveThar
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"Authored by Dr Mark Chernaik of the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide... the report states excessive levels of selenium, arsenic, mercury, chromium and lead is of recent origin and associated with coal activities in the Thar coalfields." bit.ly/3K8qsnc #Pakistan
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04 April 2023 - Case Update
Request Made for Temporary Stop Order (TSO)
to the Civil Court
For #GoM - only the project matters - environment is dispensable - so it carries on #businessasusual.
We believe our law protects env.
#StopGulhifalhuEcocide
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⚖️Tomorrow, 5 April 2023, we appear at the EACJ to argue against the objection to the court’s jurisdiction in response to the case challenging the construction of #EACOP
📑naturaljustice.org/eacop-east-afr
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The East African Court of Justice (EACJ) will hear key arguments supporting or against the preliminary objection in the #EACOP case on 5th April 2023. Will share more updates in the coming days. In the meantime, see the attached timeline of the EACOP case before the EACJ.
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First climate case heard at the European Court of Human Rights, via
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Nepal has 100+ distinct ecosystems & 35 forest types across various altitudes & climates. ELAW partner Prakash Mani Sharma has spent a lifetime defending Nepal’s rich biodiversity. See examples of his work in the Spring 2023 #ELAWAdvocate bit.ly/prakashnepal
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FEDEV celebrates the International Day of Zero Waste with the pupils of G. S Bamenda Up Sation.#ZeroWasteDay. Types of waste, waste sorting and the fight against plastic waste particularly.
#plasticfree #wastefree #noplastic #zeroplastic #zerowastehome #zerowastelife
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Oregon Senator Merkley collaborated on a resolution calling for US leadership against human rights abuses targeting environmental defenders & urging the international community to stand with them. Our colleague Bach is mentioned: bit.ly/3KjvUVK #StandWithBach
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Upcoming event......
We are ready for the first edition of the #energy transition dialogue happening tomorrow at 3pm C.A.T. Don't miss it, register in advance
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist
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Did you know what a #coral is? Here we present their forms of reproduction, feeding and how they are composed ⬇ 🪸 Read and share.
Know, value and act in favor of the conservation of the #MAR. #GuatemalaMegadiverse #MARFund, #SomosRedLAC
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Through litigation, advocacy & activist support and training, we seek to advance our vision of a more equal society, free of fossil fuels, in which environmental and climate justice is realised and all people and the planet flourish #Gettoknowus #Section24 cer.org.za
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