Global Voices online, 12 June 2015.
Friends of Jopi Peranginangin, an Indonesian environmentalist who was stabbed and killed in a bar in south Jakarta, are asking the government to lead a quick and transparent murder investigation. They fear the murder is related to his activism. To monitor the case, his friends and supporters have launched a campaign called “Solidaritas4Jopi” (Solidarity for Jopi).
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Ante los hechos ocurridos en el río La Pasión, en Sayaxché, Petén, Guatemala en donde se ha registrado la muerte masiva de peces y otras especies en su cauce (se habla de afectaciones de hasta 105 kilómetros de contaminación) expresamos:
Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees.
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IUFRO Tree Biotechnology Conference Denounced for Promoting GMO Trees
Press release.Redmanglar Internacional questions the fact that shrimp farms, fish culture ponds and salt mines are considered by the RAMSAR Convention as artificial wetlands.
These industries must be classified in the listings of activities that generate negative impacts against wetlands and other associated ecosystems, as well as against the communities and people that inhabit them.
Climate justice advocates and community and movements’ representatives met in Maputo, Mozambique from 21-23 April 2015 to reflect on the roots, manifestations and impacts of climate change on Africa and on the responses needed in the face of the crises. The conference agreed, among others, to reject false solutions to the climate crisis, like REDD, industrial tree plantations, genetic engineering, agrofuels and geoengineering,
The new issue of the “World Rivers Review”, a magazine from the NGO International Rivers, includes reports about worldwide violations against indigenous peoples for defending rivers and rights; a reflection on the created challenges by framing dams as “solutions to climate change”; and asks what a healthy river means from different perspectives. Currently, no less than 3,700 hydropower projects are under construction or in the pipeline worldwide.
People may be exposed to excessive levels of agrotoxics at work and through food, soil, water or air. Through the pollution of groundwater, lakes, rivers and other bodies of water, agrotoxics can pollute drinking water supplies, fish and other vital sources to human welfare. The “Alert about the impacts of agro toxics on health” is a huge contribution to the fight against silence.
Water justice movements in Asia gathered in Daegu, Korea, for the Alternative Forum “Water for all” on April 13-14 in a common struggle to defend and realize our human right to water and keep water as part of the commons. The Forum challenged “the water privatization and corporatization model that is being imposed on Korea’s public water system and those of many other Asian countries.
The Africa Social Forum that took place in Dakar in October 2014 released the Declaration against Water and Land grabbing, which affirms that “land grabbing is always accompanied by water grabbing”. During the World Social Forum in Tunis in March 2015, the dialogue among African groups continued with movements and organizations from all over the world in order to broaden this convergence.
