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UN right to a healthy environment “is ammunition for campaigners”
A new resolution declares that everyone has the right to a healthy environment – a right that was not included in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. It's been described as...
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Free, prior and informed consent required as clean energy threatens Indigenous Peoples
A new coalition of Indigenous Peoples is calling for free, prior and informed consent to be negotiated without exception as...
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Ecuador’s Indigenous Peoples: we are protecting our territories
Indigenous protestors in Ecuador remain wary, despite the agreement which has ended 18 days of strikes in which at least...
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Re-direct farm subsidies to help consumers buy healthy food: UN
The world’s US$630 billion a year in food and agriculture subsidies should to be re-directed, helping consumers to afford healthy...
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Indigenous Peoples side lined at UN, opening the door to land grabs under 30×30
Indigenous Peoples are being side lined at High Level UN meetings taking place this month in New York, in an ongoing pattern that threatens their rights, say Indigenous leaders. Absence from decision making will...
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Fertilisers: going cold turkey in a time of crisis
Farmers across the world began shunning fertiliser in late March as prices skyrocketed, so much so that now stockpiles are growing as prices fall. Will fertilisers find their way back onto the land? English...
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“Sustainable” UK food labels will be mandatory, says leaked strategy
A leaked copy of England’s new food strategy says data transparency, to be adopted across the UK, will incentivise the food sector to "produce healthier and more ethical sustainable food". Campaigners have expressed despair...
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Call for ideas: White House seeks to end hunger in the US by 2030
The White House in America has announced conference pillars and consultation dates ahead of President Biden’s Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health in September. Consultations, called listening sessions, will be held from June 1st and...
Read moreFree, prior and informed consent required as clean energy threatens Indigenous Peoples
A new coalition of Indigenous Peoples is calling for free, prior and informed consent to be negotiated without exception as the world transitions to clean energy. Cultural Survival, First Peoples Worldwide, Batani Foundation, Earthworks, and the Society for Threatened Peoples launched Secure Indigenous People’s Rights in a Green Economy or SIRGE...
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