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Welcome to the March-June 2012 edition of FoEI's electronic updateInterlinkages.

The Spanish version of this Interlinkages will be sent out soon.

Thanks to Ronnie Hall for editing and designing this issue.

Questions? Contact [email protected]

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action alerts

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secretariat, excom & chair

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Your help needed to protect Colombian activistsFoE ATALC is concerned about the serious situation facing Colombian community leaders and academics, includ-ing those belonging to FoE Colombia/CENSAT. On 8 June, Felix Manuel Banguero, a member of the RegionalCoordination Team for Black Communities development (PCN), the Pilamo Community Council, was arrested andsubsequently indicted on charges of rebellion and conspiracy. Similarly, at the beginning of July, the RegionalOffice of Huila opened a criminal investigation into the distinguished professor Miller Dussan, concerning “the irreg-ular nature of the behaviour of professor Dussan Miller” in the demonstrations that have been held against theQuimbo hydroelectric project. In addition, on 7 July, the home and workplace of Hildebrando Vélez Galeano wasraided. Vélez Galeano, is an environmentalist, professor, and member of PCN Palenke Alto Cauca, and was direc-tor of FoE Colombia and International Coordinator of FoEI’s Climate Justice and Energy Programme in 2009 and2010. Since 17 February 2011, when Sandra Viviana Cuellar went missing, both his and his daughter’s houseshave been simultaneously attacked on two occasions. Computers with information, primarily concerning the searchfor Sandra Viviana have been stolen, along with papers about their academic research and documents relating totheir social struggles.Show your solidarity by writing a letter to the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to protest against this treatmentof Colombia’s community leaders and academics - you can find more information about ATALC’s call to theColombian government, and an address to write to here: http://www.foei.org/en/blog/grave-situation-of-commu-nity-leaders-and-academics-in-colombia

Paraguay: Correa released, but coup opens door to GM and extractivesTensions have been running high in Paraguay for some time as those with commercial interests, especially in thesoy industry, have tried to crush the reformist government of Fernando Lugo, because of his government’s effortsto promote land reform and curb the worst excesses of corporations and the extractive industry. On 15 June policemoved in to evict landless campesinos from land dubiously acquired from the state by a former and long-timeColorado Party (right wing) senator, Blas Riquelme. A gunfight broke out and at least 17 people were killed, includ-ing six police. Miguel Correa, a twenty-year old participant in FoE Paraguay/Sobrevivencia’s community projectwas arrested by police for involvement in the killings, despite having been nowhere near the event at the time. Hewas still in prison weeks later, although he has now been released as a result of an international outcry, includingby means of an action coordinated by FoE EWNI, and support from Amnesty International:http://www.foe.co.uk/news/demand_justice_for_miguel_36422.htmlFollowing the gun battle, President Lugo, who was elected as a champion of the poor, was impeached by theSenate and replaced by Frederico Franco – although other Latin American heads of state have refused to recog-nise the new president and have questioned the constitutionality of the process:http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/06/201262383641605671.htmlKey Lugo ministers were also removed from office, including Environment Minister Oscar Rivas, and MiguelLovera, head of Plant and Seed service SENAVE (responsible, amongst other things, for issuing licences for GMcrops). Both are associated with FoE Paraguay. Lovera was replaced by Jaime Ayala, president of PacificAgrosciences, an agrochemical company. This was almost immediately followed by the approved release of GMcotton Bollgard-BT, and an announcement that four new GM maize varieties, and one new GM soy variety were

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about to be approved:http://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/economia/transgenicos--en-la-recta-final-422004.htmlA wave of other permissions for extractive projects was also announced, including negotiations with RTZon a new aluminium smelter:http://www.ultimahora.com/notas/542132-El-Gobierno-negociará-con-Rio-Tinto-sobre-una-tarifa--de-USD-60-MW/hYou can read an opinion piece by Oxfam International’s Executive Director declaring President Lugo “thelatest victim of Paraguay’s ‘soy war’” here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/opinion/paraguays-destructive-soy-boom.html?_r=2Contact: [email protected]

Insist Shell provides emergency clean up fundThis petition calls on Shell to take responsibility for the devastation it has wrought in the Niger Delta, andprovide a US$1billion emergency clean up fund. The target for signatures is 75,000 people and it’s nearlybeen reached. Your signature could make all the difference. Sign here: http://sumofus.org/campaigns/shell-cleanup/Find out more at http://www.worsethanbad.org, a campaign website launched by FoE Netherlands.

EJRN/corporates: challenging corporate capture of the UNOn 5 June, World Environment Day, FoEI turned the spotlight on to the influence that big business currently wieldsat the UN, urging the institution to limit multinational corporations’ excessive influence in its decision-makingprocesses. FoEI launched an online public petition asking UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to take the stepsneeded to reclaim the UN from corporate capture. 422 civil society organisations representing millions of peoplearound the world signed in support.Download FoEI’s new publication, ‘Reclaim The UN from Corporate Capture’:http://www.foei.org/en/resources/publications/pdfs/2012/reclaim-the-un-from-corporate-capture/viewRead the statement: http://www.foei.org/en/get-involved/take-action/end-un-corporate-captureView the list of signatories: http://www.foei.org/en/get-involved/take-action/signatories-end-un-corporate-cap-ture-statement-22-june-2012Contact: Paul de Clerck, FoEI Corporates Campaign Coordinator, [email protected] or Lucia Ortiz, FoEIEJRN Programme Coordinator, [email protected]

Rio+20: big business interests more important than future of the planetThe subsequent Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro underscored just how tight big business’s grip on the UN agendaactually is. Twenty years after the last Earth Summit in Rio, which launched conventions to tackle climate change,biodiversity and desertification, we now face a situation in which world leaders are prepared to sell out people andthe planet to protect corporate interests. The Rio+20 ‘The Future We Want’ declaration fell way short of the actionneeded to tackle the planetary crisis we face, and did not include any of the real solutions demanded by the alter-native People’s Summit. FoEI was a key player in this latter summit, an alternative space where over 200 civil soci-ety groupings worked together for nine days generating real and equitable solutions to tackle the crisis we face.To view the actions rejecting the final declaration from Rio+20 see this video: http://www.foei.org/en/blog/video-sit-in-and-walk-out-at-the-entrance-of-the-rio-20-summitYou can find the final version of the People’s Summit declaration here:http://cupuladospovos.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Declaracion_final_ESP.pdf (Spanish)http://cupuladospovos.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/FinalDeclaration-ENG.pdf (English)To read FoEI’s final opinion of the Earth Summit go to:http://www.foei.org/en/media/archive/2012/rio-20-summit-condemned-as-sell-out-of-people-and-the-planet(English) and http://www.foei.org/es/media/archive/2012/cumbre-rio-20-condenada-por-vender-la-gente-y-el-planeta?set_language=es (Spanish)

Rio+20: fisherfolk murdered in Rio for environmental strugglesIt seems paradoxical that just days after the end of Rio+20 - a summit supposed to find solutions to environmentalconflicts - two fishermen from Rio were murdered. On Friday 22 June, activists of Associação de Homens eMulheres do Mar (AHOMAR), Almir Nogueira de Amorim and João Luiz Telles Penetra (Pituca) disappeared. Theirbodies were found days later with indications that they had been murdered. Real World Radio interviewedAHOMAR’s chair, Alexandre Anderson de Souza, about the murder of the two fishermen and the situation sufferedby the fishing communities in Bahía de Guanabara in recent years. It is a story of loss of common goods, andthreats and persecution, but also of struggle and resistance.

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You can read more and listen to the interview here:http://radiomundoreal.fm/5717-rio-death?lang=en (English)http://radiomundoreal.fm/5716-rio-muerte?lang=es (Spanish)

Rio+20/RMOG: FoE Mozambique campaigner refused entry to BrazilJeremias Vunjanhe, a journalist and member of FoE Mozambique/Justiçia Ambiental, was denied entry toBrazil where he was planning to attend the Rio+20 summit and the parallel People’s Summit. As a miningactivist he was scheduled to participate in the People’s Summit to expose the negative impacts ofBrazilian mining corporation Vale, at the third International Meeting of People Affected by Vale. JustiçiaAmbiental and Vunjanhe have supported hundreds of Mozambican families that have been resettled byVale in the Moatize district of Mozambique, and Vale has failed to comply with the promises made whenthe works began. Vale was one of the official sponsors of Rio+20. You can find out more at Real WorldRadio:http://www.radiomundoreal.fm/5598-illegal-practices?lang=en (English)http://www.radiomundoreal.fm/5596-asi-no-vale (Spanish)

FS: Demanding food sovereignty at FAO summitFoEI’s Food Sovereignty programme participated in the 3rd Special Conference for Food Sovereignty,Rights and Life, organised by the International Committee for Food Sovereignty - Regional CoordinationLatin America and the Caribbean (IPC-LAC) on 22-25 March, and the 32nd Regional Conference of theFood and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), 26-30 March. Both were held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Thecivil society organisations united around a declaration questioning the industrial, intensive, large scale,concentration model, which is aimed at the export of raw materials and led by transnational companies.They also rejected the FAO’s definition of forests, which encourages land grabbing to expand monocul-ture plantations. And while they recognised the FAO voluntary guidelines on the ‘Tenure of Land,Fisheries and Forests in the context of National Food Security’ as a step in the right direction, they reject-ed the report ‘Land Market Dynamics in Latin America and the Caribbean’. Drafted by FAO-LAC, thisreport states that the issue of land grabbing is restricted to just two countries, Argentina and Brazil. On 29March, a delegation of the IPC, which included Martín Drago on behalf of FoEI, met with FAO DirectorJose Grazziano to address a range of issues. A Real World Radio team was also present at the meetings,covering the activities and gathering testimonies of the members of the social organisations, social move-ments and indigenous peoples present. FoEI’s Food Sovereignty Program coordinators would like toknow if member groups from other regions have participated in or are interested in participating in region-al processes involving the FAO and their policies.You can read - and listen to - the civil society declaration here: http://www.radiomundoreal.fm/5335-por-un-presente-y-futuro-sin?lang=es (in Spanish)And read more here: http://www.radiomundoreal.fm/5326-real-solution (in English)For a more detailed report please contact: Martín Drago, FoEI FS Programme Coordinator,[email protected]

RMOG: building the movement against mining in MesoamericaATALC members in the Central American region have joined forces with other organisations in the area toform a coordinated and concerted campaign against extractive mining, the Movimiento Mesoamericanocontra el Modelo Extractivo Minero (the Middle America Movement Against the Extractive Mining Model)also known as ‘Movimiento M4’. One of their key strategies at present is the campaign against GoldCorp,which demands the closure of the Marlin Mine in Guatemala. To find out more and to keep abreast ofnews about anti-mining campaigns in the region go to: http://www.movimientom4.org/Contact: Gustavo Castro, FoE Mexico/Otros Mundos, [email protected]

Meeting of all FoEI programmes in BrazilFrom 25-28 June a FoE International Programmes Meeting took place in Vassouras, Brazil. The aim ofthe meeting was to bring together people from across the FoEI federation who are coordinating and steer-ing FoEI's programmes (including campaigns and cross-programme projects) for four days of reflection ontheir work and to develop proposals for priorities, strategies and plans for the coming years. This was animportant opportunity to evaluate jointly the work we have been doing together during the past few years,take lessons learned on board, take stock of the changing context in which we work, and consider our pri-orities for moving forward. People engaged in the international programmes are now following up on thework done at the meeting to develop programme workplans for the coming year. More information on thestrategies and activities that FoEI’s programmes will be focusing on in the coming period will be sharedwith the federation at the upcoming Biennial General Meeting in El Salvador this November.

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CJE: coordinators and steering group meetThe CJE Coordinators, Steering Group members and programmes and communications representativesfrom the FoEI IS met for four days in London at the end of April, to discuss the regional feedback on thestrategy options paper, and make progress on developing and refining the draft strategy, and on position-ing. The meeting involved two types of positioning discussions: further work to agree a position on a glob-al temperature target, and early exploration of positioning issues around effort-sharing for global emis-sions cuts and negative emissions technology.Contact: Sarah-Jayne Clifton, FoE EWNI, and Dipti Bhatnagar, FoE Mozambique, CJE ProgrammeCoorinators, on [email protected] and [email protected] respectively.

CJE: new co-coordinator from MozambiqueFollowing a recruitment process in February-March the FoEI Excom appointed Dipti Bhatnagar of JA!/FoEMozambique to the position of coordinator of the FoEI Climate Justice and Energy (CJE) programme.Dipti has more than ten years experience working with grassroots movements on issues of social andenvironmental justice in India, the United States and in Mozambique. Dipti will be jointly coordinating theCJE program with Sarah-Jayne Clifton of FoE EWNI.If you'd like to reach Dipti, her e-mail is: [email protected] addition, Jose Eloseguí from FoE Uruguay and Tatiana Roa from FoE Columbia have taken over as theATALC representatives on the CJE Steering Group.

CJE/F&B: update on coordination arrangements for FoEI REDD workIn the interests of clarity over responsibilities, and taking into account that FoEI’s work on REDD focuseson supporting grassroots struggles and the rights of communities in relation to forests and forest gover-nance - both areas of work that are being driven forward by the F&B programme – it has been agreedthat it makes sense for the Forests and Biodiversity programme to lead FoEI work on REDD. TheClimate Justice & Energy and other programmes will feed in as and when appropriate. For those of youactive in the CJE programme who are interested in REDD work, please note that there is a specific FoEIREDD working group for information-sharing and campaigning plans, with its own e-list. To sign-up to this e-list, or if you have any questions about or would like to get involved in the work onREDD, please contact: Isaac Rojas, FoEI Forests & Biodiversity Programme Coordinator, [email protected]

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Africa: FoE Africa drafts strong declaration at regional meetingFoE Africa held its Annual General Assembly 9-12 May in Accra, in Ghana. Representatives of FoE groups fromGhana, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tunisiaand Uganda attended. They demanded respect for the right to land in Africa, as well as food and energy sovereign-ty. In a concluding declaration they stated that climate change, the push for natural resources of the region, gasand oil extraction, land grabbing, forest and biodiversity degradation and the imposition of genetically modified foodare some of the main challenges faced by the continent. They also demanded equity and justice principles atRio+20, due to take place in June in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. To read more: http://www.radiomundoreal.fm/5496-africa-unitedTo download the declaration: http://www.nape.or.ug/lib/FOE_%20Africa_Statement_2012.pdfFor more information contact: George Awudi, FoE Ghana, [email protected]

Australia: spectacular victory for community in coal seam gas struggleThere has been steadily growing momentum and support for the call for a moratorium on coal seam gas extraction,pending a full state inquiry into the likely impacts of the industry in Victoria. The most recent victory occurred whencouncillors from South Gippsland Shire unanimously supported a motion calling for a moratorium on CSG after aspirited community campaign. More than 130 community members packed the Council meeting to listen to thedebate. The Council joins those from Bass Coast, Colac/Otwa, Port Phillip and Yarra in opposing CSG operationpending a full inquiry. You can read more here: http://www.melbourne.foe.org.au/?q=node/1124 and here: http://www.melbourne.foe.org.au/?q=node/1164Contact: Cam Walker, FoE Australia, [email protected]

Australia: 500 people protesting at Olympic Dam uranium mineJim Green is the national anti nuclear campaigner for FoE Australia. Check out his video report from the ‘LizardsRevenge’ protest at Olympic Dam uranium mine in South Australia:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It-qr8lnurY&feature=youtu.be

Europe: Young FoEE’s fifth birthdayThis summer Young FoE Europe is celebrating being five years old. The Young FoEE network officially started inJune 2007 after a group of young activists from national Young FoE and FoE groups came together to initiateyouth cooperation across the Europe region. To mark the birthday they asked Young FoE groups across Europe toplant five trees, as well as celebrating by having a small party and sharing a cake on the 27 June.They collectedsome beautiful pictures which can be seen at: www.youngfoee.org and made a special photo gallery of all thetrees that have been planted: http://www.flickr.com/photos/youngfoeeContact: Sophie Manson, Young FoE Europe, [email protected]

France: new campaign on the ‘financialisation of nature’On 5 June, World Environment Day, and two weeks before the opening of the UN summit in Rio, FoE Francelaunched a new campaign to denounce the dangers associated with the financialisation of nature. In a booklet"Nature is not for sale!"(available in French, English and Spanish), they explain what the issues at stake are, andwhat the social and environmental impacts of the ‘green economy’ are. To download the leaflet (in English, French and Spanish) and for more information: http://www.amisdelaterre.org/Campagne-La-nature-n-est-pas-a.html

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Together with their European partners they also made a short animated film:http://www.amisdelaterre.org/Une-video-pour-comprendre-la.html (French)http://vimeo.com/43398910 (English)http://vimeo.com/44407434 (Spanish)http://vimeo.com/44485947 (German)Contact: Juliette Renaud, FoE France, [email protected]

Germany: pushing for a 30% CO2 reduction goalFoE Germany/BUND, along with six other German environmental and development NGOs, organised aseries of protests, press conferences, and meetings with politicians in Germany to encourage ChancellorMerkel to ‘get to work’ on climate change and put pressure on other EU member states to support a 30%CO2 reduction goal. FoEE joined up with the European counterparts of participating German NGOs toorganise a protest in Brussels. The campaign garnered attention in the press, most notably in Poland, thecountry currently blocking talks on the issue. The campaign helped strengthen ties between NGOs andreceived positive attention from the Chancellor’s Office. Contact: Monika Falkenberg, FoE Germany/BUND, [email protected]

Hungary: government scores badly on environmental policies42 environmental NGOs in Hungary assessed the government’s environmental performance at its mid-term point. The preparation of the 32-page evaluation document was led by FoE Hungary. The overallenvironmental performance was rated at 1.89 (on a 1-5 scale), which shows how bad it is! The most prob-lematic areas are energy and climate, and environmental governance issues.For more information (in Hungarian only): http://www.mtvsz.hu/zold_szervezetek_ertekeltek_a_kormany_felidei_munkajatContact: Istvan Farkas, FoE Hungary/MTVSZ, [email protected] address for photos: http://www.mtvsz.hu/kormanyertekeles_felidoben

Japan: responding to the Fukushima nuclear disasterA year after the nuclear disaster, high levels of radiation continue to threaten people in Fukushima, espe-cially residents of the Watari District in Fukushima City. They have been faced with a difficult choice: eitherto evacuate by bearing evacuation-related expenses themselves or to stay in the district fearing radiationexposure. To solve this difficult situation, Watari residents and supportive NGOs mobilised a civic move-ment to hold the government and nuclear company TEPCO responsible for compensating voluntary evac-uees. Together with Citizens Against the Fukushima Aging Nuclear Power Plants, FoE Japan also pub-lished an English language booklet "Citizen's Movement for Establishing the Rights to Evacuate: Watari,Fukushima and Beyond.” You can download the booklet at:http://www.foejapan.org/en/news/120308.htmlFoE Japan also launched the Poka-Poka Project in January 2012. Thanks to generous donations fromacross Japan and overseas, they have been able to help children, pregnant women, and their familymembers - more than 1,600 people in total between January and March - stay in Tsuchiyu Hot Springs tospend time away from their severely contaminated home areas. The second term of the Poka-PokaProject began in early May 2012. The Project is also offering seminars on radiological protection, andpolitical developments regarding compensation and long-term evacuation programmes.For details, please visit: http://www.foejapan.org/en/news/120419.htmlContact: Eri Watanabe, FoE Japan: [email protected]

Liberia: major success on ArcellorMittal corruption case!FoE Liberia scored a major victory with respect to the ongoing ArcellorMittal corruption campaign, whenthe Government of Liberia welcomed a report from FoE Liberia/Sustainable Development Initiative (SDI),which claimed that over US$300,000 had been mis-managed by officials. The government is now going toconduct its own audit of Liberia’s Social Development Fund with a view to redressing the matter. You can read more here: http://www.micat.gov.lr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=315:government-to-audit-social-development-fund-the-government-of-liberia-says-it-will-soon-begin-an-audit-of-the-social-development-fund-for-counties-a-civil-society-organization-sustainable-development-initiative-sdi-recently-released-a-report-claim&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=111Contact: Silas Kpanan’Ayoung Siakor, FoE Liberia, [email protected]

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Netherlands: launch of ‘worsethanbad.org’How much worse does the biggest oil disaster in the world have to get before the offender starts cleaningup? Apparently even worse than it is now, because Shell has still taken no action. FoENetherlands/Milieudefensie believes this is unacceptable and has started an international campaign tobring attention to the oil disaster in Nigeria. Its new 'Worse than Bad' campaign, launched in May, showsthe suffering that the Dutch oil concern has been causing in the Niger Delta for decades and asks site visi-tors to support FoE in its struggle against the Dutch multinational. Many ways to do so are shown onworsethanbad.org. For those who want to know the facts, there is also a 'Timeline of Shell's oil pollution inthe Niger Delta', filled with unique documents and photos.For more information, contact: Geert Ritsema, FoE Netherlands, [email protected]

Switzerland: urban sprawl campaign scores two successesFoE Switzerland recently achieved two important victories in its campaign again urban sprawl and for sus-tainable land use. The Swiss parliament has introduced new legal provisions that will stop the expansionof land that can be built on for 20 years. In addition, the people of Switzerland have decided, through areferendum, to stop the unrestricted development of tourism. Municipalities will have to make sure thatless than 20% of the houses in their area are second homes. This is a clear signal that people want tostop the destruction of nature for the profit of a few. Contact: Bertrand Sansonnens, FoE Switzerland/Pro Natura, [email protected]

Uruguay: examining foreign investment and sovereigntyTogether with Sustainable Uruguay, FoE Uruguay/REDES organised an event on 7 June, on “Investmentand sovereignty in Uruguay and the regional context”, with the participation of Ec.Jorge Notaro and KinttoLucas (Ex Vice Chancellor of Ecuador). Contact: Sebastian Valdomir, FoE Uruguay, [email protected]

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Make sure you are sure about BGM dates!The dates for the BGM were changed earlier in the year, so make sure you have the correct dates in your diary.November 3 and 4: ExCom meeting in El SalvadorNovember 5 and 6: BGM pre-conference in El Salvador, on Climate Change, Social Movements and TerritoriesNovember 7: Regional meetings in El SalvadorNovember 8-11: BGM in El SalvadorNovember 12: solidarity visit in Central AmericaThe BGM will also see the election of a new FoEI Chair and ExCom.Contact the IS team working on the BGM: Loreto (logistics) [email protected] and Wieke Wagenaar (finance)[email protected]

David Hirsch has started as FoEI’s International CoordinatorDave has taken up his post as FoEI’s International Coordinator and relocated to Amsterdam. You can contact himon: [email protected]

ExCom discussion about financial crisis and critique of capitalismThe ExCom’s March meeting began with a discussion of the current global context and what it means for FoEI.Many nations are facing debt crises and increased austerity measures, which are hurting the poor in particular, asthe gap between the very rich and everyone else increases. We are seeing increased militarisation aroundresources, and attacks on activists. FoEI sees this for what it is: power is concentrated in the hands of corporationsand nature has been turned into a commodity. The situation in the world presents an opportunity for FoEI, becausethere is now a more open critique of capitalism happening. This means that we need to develop our analysis fur-ther and embed it more into our work. We need to provide local answers and find a way to communicate them onthe national and international scale. We need to create new tactical alliances, including with unions. And we needto clarify our position in the world: in some places, we are known only as environmental advocates and our socialjustice message is lost. By pushing us into the ‘green box’ our opponents are able to marginalise us. We need tolook at how we communicate and what messages we are sending.Contact: Nnimmo Bassey, FoEI Chair, [email protected]

Young FoE Europe at FoEI ExCom meetingSophie Manson from Young FoEE attended the March ExCom to share information about the structure and activi-ties of the youth organisation. The ExCom is interested in integrating Young FoEE more into the federation, includ-ing the possibility of having a youth delegation attend FoEI's BGM in November in El Salvador. The ExCombelieves that youth programmes should be encouraged and developed by all regions, if possible, with the IS play-ing a supporting or facilitating role. Contact: Sophie Manson, Young FoEE, [email protected]

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Solidarity visits in 2012FoEI has successfully raised funding to help the member groups when they are under threat and for soli-darity visits and activities. After discussing the conditions faced by many of our member groups theExCom has prioritised a trip to one or more Central American countries, after the BGM. The staff of the ISwill also work to develop a rapid response mechanism for when our member groups are threatened. Theyenvision a system to help the impacted group send letters, contact embassies and address other urgentneeds. Currently, if groups are threatened and need urgent help, they should contact their regional struc-tures. Regional ExCom members can take a request to the IS.With respect to the process, contact: David Hirsch, FoEI International Coordinator, [email protected]

Welcome to FoEI’s new Web and E-Communications Editor!Denis Burke joined the International Secretariat as the new Web and E-Communications Editor at thebeginning of July. He has worked in media and communications with several organisations including theWorld AIDS Campaign. Denis is from Ireland and has lived in Amsterdam for several years. Outside ofwork he enjoys acting, reading and travelling. He says he’s delighted to be part of the team at Friends ofthe Earth!You can contact Denis on: [email protected]

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FoEI publishes new corporate capture reportTwenty years after the first Rio Earth Summit there are real concerns about the increasing influence of major cor-porations and business lobby groups within the UN. FoEI aims to challenge this corporate capture with a new cam-paign launched in June, and the publication of a report, ‘Reclaim the UN from Corporate Capture’.Download the report: http://www.foei.org/en/resources/publications/pdfs/2012/reclaim-the-un-from-corporate-capture/view (English)http://www.foei.org/es/resources/publicaciones/pdfs-por-ano/2012/liberemos-a-la-onu-de-la-cooptacion-empresarial/view (Spanish)

Check out the new FoE Europe websiteThe new FoE Europe website is a place to keep up-to-date with news from FoEE’s campaigns in Brussels andfrom all the groups in the European region. The new site is a platform where all European groups can share news,successes and campaign developments. Young FoE Europe also have a new site: www.youngfoee.org, whichcelebrates who they are, what they do and why they do it. If you have comments you can leave them on FoEE’sFacebook page: http://www.facebook.com/FoEEurope If you spot anything that ought to be changed then pleasesend this feedback direct to Francesca Gater, FoE Europe, [email protected] They would alsoreally appreciate it if you would help them promote the new site by sharing it with your friends, supporters, and net-works. Finally, they would like to say a massive ‘thank you’ to everyone who has helped with the new website proj-ect, especially Gina in Hungary, Job in Netherlands, Martin in Malta, Marci in Hungary, Chris in the UK, and Phil atFoEI, who all gave them fantastic support.

Real World Radio reports on Rio+20During the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the Real World Radio (RWR) team has worked around the clock tocover the alternative Peoples' Summit, record protests in the streets of Rio, and document the views of a wholehost of people, including FoE campaigners. Check out the features section at the RWR website:http://www.radiomundoreal.fm/hacia-rio-20#pagination_articles_ultimas

Australia: new reports on pesticides in Melbourne and TasmaniaFoE has released two reports investigating risks associated with pesticides in drinking water in Melbourne andTasmania. The first focuses on the Sugarloaf Reservoir, Melbourne's only reservoir, which is supplied from theYarra River, downstream of one of Australia's most intensively farmed (and sprayed) regions. Sugarloaf suppliesdrinking water to over 1.5 million Melbournians living in the north and west of the city. The herbicides Atrazine andSimazine were both detected above European Guideline levels and above levels which have been determined toimpact on hormones.You can find the report here: http://foe.org.au/articles/2012-06-12/pesticides-and-melbournes-drinking-water-new-report-releasedWith respect to Tasmania, FoE Australia found that the major concern appears to be relatively high levels of chlo-

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Young FoE Europe planting five trees in the Netherlands for theirfifth birthday, June 2012. Koen glotzbach.

rine disinfection by-products from four communities in Southern Tasmania. Check here for the report and release: http://foe.org.au/articles/2012-06-04/pesticides-and-drinking-water-tasmaniaContact: Cam Walker, FoE Australia, [email protected]

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Don’t forget to submit MSF applications by 19 August!FoEI has secured funding to support a number of member group projects in 2013. This funding is administeredthrough the Membership Support Fund (MSF). The call for proposals is open to associate and full member groupsfrom the Africa, APac and ATALC regions. Member groups in non-DAC recipient countries cannot apply for thisfund except for legal support. Member groups with outstanding financial obligations to FoEI are not eligible. Tocheck if your group is up-to-date with its FoEI membership fees and reporting obligations please inquire at the sec-retariat by sending a message to [email protected]. The budget for project proposals should not exceed €10,000. Ifthe budget does exceed €10,000 the applicant group needs to have secured co-funding for the project. You willsee that the format is different from last year. Please choose which category is the most relevant for your work andthen fill in the appropriate application. Please do not use forms from previous years!The categories are:- Development and promotion of alternatives- Defending rights and livelihoods- Challenging corporate power- Legal support to protect environmental justice defenders at the community levelCompleted application and budget forms need to be received by 19 August and sent to [email protected] further information you can also contact: Nina Ascoly, FoEI IS Programmes Facilitator, [email protected]

Send in your proposals for Pinocchio awardsFoE France is preparing for its annual Pinocchio Sustainable Development Awards in November. The award isintended to illustrate and denounce the negative impacts of those French companies that claim to support sustain-able development but act to undermine it. Companies can be nominated in the following categories:- ‘Greener than green’ – for the most misleading communications campaign- ‘One for all, all for me’ – for the most aggressive resource-grabbing policy- ‘Dirty hands, pocket full’ – for the most successful in terms of lobbying and lack of transparencyThey are currently looking for interesting case studies. The companies much be French and primarily involved inthe extractive industry. Send in your ideas!Contact: Romain Porcheron, FoE France, [email protected]

Kate Horner moves to EIACongratulations to Kate Horner from FoE US, who announced in May that she was moving on to a new post, asDirector of Forest Programmes at the Environmental Investigation Agency. She hopes to continue working withmany of you on the forest work that you have already collaborated on over the last few years. She counts you allas close friends and hopes to see you regularly! Her personal email is: [email protected].

New staff at FoE Chile/CODEFFFoE Chile has a new president, Rudolf Thomann, and a new Executive Director, Mr José Miguel Torrico. You cancontact them on [email protected] and [email protected] respectively.

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Protesters challenge unsustainable biomass outsideHolyrood. Maverick Photo Agency, FoE Scotland.

Acting director in place at FoE ScotlandStan Blackley, FoE Scotland’s previous Chief Executive, left the organisation in May. FoE Scotland thendecided to take the opportunity to consider the best structure for the organisation to move forward, soDavina Shiell is now Interim Operational Director. Her role is mainly to manage the organisation’s staff,finances, and campaigns and to focus on fundraising.Contact: Davina Shiell, FoE Scotland, [email protected]

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11,000 Nigerians sue Shell in London CourtsOn 23 March 2012, six months after Shell admitted liability following two massive oil spills in the NigerDelta, law firm Leigh Day & Co served formal legal proceedings on the oil giant in the High Court inLondon for compensation on behalf of over 11,000 Nigerians after negotiations broke down the previousweek. This is the first time Shell or any oil company has faced claims in the UK from a community fromthe developing world for environmental damage caused by its oil extraction operations.Read more: http://www.leighday.co.uk/News/2012/March-2012/11,000-Nigerians-sue-Shell-in-London-Courts

Brutal murders of anti-mining activists in Mexico and the PhilippinesAnti-mining activists continue to be brutally repressed in countries such as Mexico and the Philippines. OnMarch 5, 2012, Jimmy Liguyon, an indigenous leader and human rights advocate, was killed by suspectedparamilitary forces and the Philippines Army. Liguyon was a local government official who staunchlyopposed the entry of mining companies in his province. Liguyon is the ninth anti-mining activist killed sinceJuly 2010, under the repressive Aquino government. In Mexico, social and environmental activist BernardoVásquez Sánchez was also killed, on 15 March, in an ambush by suspected paramilitary agents of a min-ing company. Two of his companions during the ambush, Rosalinda Dionicio Sánchez and AndresVésquez Sánchez, were also seriously wounded. Sanchez was the second anti-mining activist killed inMexico this year for opposition to mining operations in Oaxaca. On 19 January, community activistBernardo Méndez Vásquez also died from bullet wounds when the municipal government ordered thepolice to fire at people protesting against the Fortuna Silver mining project. Contact: [email protected]

Cambodian forest campaigner killedChut Wutty was the director of the Natural Resource Protection Group and one of Cambodia’s leadingcampaigners against illegal logging and land grabs. He was shot dead by military police on 25 April. Hewas guiding two journalists from the Cambodia Daily to investigate illegal logging in the CardamomMountains in Koh Kong province. Chut Wutty had taken the journalists to look at the Stung Atay dam inPursat province. The dam is being built by China National Heavy Machinery, in an area that was untilrecently dense forest. The company that has the contract to clear the reservoir area, MDS Import Export,has, according to Chut Wutty, been illegally logging outside the reservoir area and inside the CentralCardamom Protected Forest.To read more go to: http://www.redd-monitor.org/2012/04/27/environmental-activist-chut-wutty-shot-dead-in-cambodia/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Redd-monitor+%28REDD-Monitor%29

Introducing Critical Information CollectiveA new organisation, Critical Information Collective (CIC), has been set up by Ronnie Hall and JosephZacune (ex-programme coordinators with FoEI). CIC aims to be a resource for you all, providing socialmovements, NGOs and communities campaigning against corporate globalisation with a single ‘one stopshop’ of incisive, political and campaign-oriented analysis, images and tools – as well as more visibility forour collective effort to challenge the prevailing economic paradigm. It covers a broad range of criticalissues related to corporate-led globalisation, including agrofuels, climate change, deforestation, food,GMOs, land, mining, poverty, rights, and trade and investment. You can visit CIC here: http://www.criticalcollective.org/ You should find it easy to find publications,including by putting the name of the topic, the publication, or the author or the organisation into the searchengine. It is also easy to move between the English and Spanish parts of the site.You can also follow CIC on twitter, @cic-info, if you want to be notified when new materials are uploadedto the site.Contact Ronnie Hall or Joe Zacune at: [email protected]

Research mediation programmeTo stimulate knowledge sharing between Wageningen University and civil society organisations worldwide,and to enhance the learning effect of internships and thesis assignments of students of Wageningen UR,OtherWise have designed a Research Mediation Programme (RMP). They aim to share academic knowl-edge in such a way that it can be made applicable to the practical needs of civil society organisationsworking at the grass-roots level. To this end they will (1) mediate and facilitate thesis and internshipassignments as part of practically-oriented research projects; and (2) challenge, stimulate and facilitate

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students to make academic knowledge useful in practice.To read more: http://www.st-otherwise.org/research-mediation-programme/rmp-in-wageningen/Contact: Margriet Goris, [email protected]

New ‘Age of Yasuní’ video game and appOilwatch has created a video game called ‘Age of Yasuní’ in which they present the conflict that originalpeoples have with petroleum activity in a range of cases (Yasuní, in the Amazon, the Niger Delta of Africa,Southeast Asia, Alaska, and the North Sea). If you can prevent the construction of the oil well you win, butif you can’t get the oil companies out of your territory, you lose. The game is simple, appropriate for allages and for a broad public with little knowledge of these issues. The game is already in the iTunesAppstore and on Google Play and they will soon release a PC and Linux version on Oilwatch websites.There is a free version and a paid one (US$0.99 or the equivalent in Euros). Proceeds from the paid ver-sion will support community-led efforts around the world to keep oil and gas developments off their lands.Paid versions - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/age-of-yasuni-full/id509942480?mt=8 and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.cocos2dx.aoyfullFree versions - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/age-of-yasuni-lite/id507396178?mt=8https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.cocos2dx.aoylite&feature=search_result -?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsIm9yZy5jb2NvczJkeC5hb3lsaXRlIl0Contact: Esperanza Martínez, Oilwatch, [email protected]

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August

30 August-5 September

UNFCCC intersessional

Bangkok

September

3-7 September

Second Global Conference on Agriculture, FoodSecurity and Climate Change

Hanoi, Vietnam

6 September

IUCN World Conservation Congress 2012

Jeju, Republic of Korea

October

1-5 October

Biosafety Protocol COP/MOP 6, and

Fair on National Experiences with theImplementation of the Cartagena Protocol onBiosafety

Hyderabad, India

8-19 October

COP 11, Convention on Biological Diversity

Hyderabad, India

16 October

World Food Day (focus on AgriculturalCooperatives)

Rome, Italy

21-23 October

Pre-COP 18 Ministerial Meeting (UNFCCC)

Seoul, Republic of Korea

22-24 October

World Energy Forum

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

November

3-4 November

FoEI ExCom meeting

El Salvador

5-6 November

Climate Change, Social Movements and Territories

FoEI BGM Pre-Conference

El Salvador

8-11 November

FoEI BGM

El Salvador

12 November

FoEI solidarity visit

Central America

6-7 November

Climate Investment Funds Partnership Forum

Istanbul, Turkey

26 November-7 December

UNFCCC COP 18

Doha, Qatar

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foe international listserves

Up-to-date information about all the FoEI listserves

can be found at https://lists.foei.org

foe europe listserves

To subscribe to or find out more information aboutFoE Europe’s listserves please send a messagewith your contact details to Stine Nielsen [email protected].

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foei secretariat

Address for mail: PO Box 191991000 GD AmsterdamThe NetherlandsVisiting address: Nieuwe Looiersstraat 313rd floor, 1017 VA, AmsterdamTel 31 20 622 1369 Fax 31 20 639 2181E-mail [email protected]://www.foei.org

international coordinatorDavid Hirsch, [email protected]

international secretariat management team

communications coordinator Maarten van den Berg, [email protected] and personnel managerWieke Wagenaar, [email protected] membership developmentcoordinator Erick Burke, [email protected] programmes facilitatorNina Ascoly [email protected]

media coordinatorNiccolo Sarno, [email protected] managerPauline Vincenten, [email protected] officer and fundraising assistantMarta Zogbi, [email protected] mobilisation coordinatorPaige Shipman, [email protected] support facilitatorJoukje Kolff, [email protected] coordinatorPhil Lee, [email protected] programmes and membership assistantElise Le Guil, [email protected] bookeekperGrace Nijbroek, [email protected]

foei ombudspeopleOtto Sieber, SwitzerlandThuli Makama, Swaziland

foe international executive committeeChair: Nnimmo Bassey, NigeriaVice Chair: Karin Nansen,UruguayTreasurer: Jagoda Munic, CroatiaRicardo Navarro, FoE El SalvadorHemantha Withanage, FoE Sri LankaElaine Gilligan, FoE England, Wales and NorthernIrelandMeena Raman, FoE MalaysiaBobby Peek, FoE South AfricaDavid Hirsch, FoE United States

foe africa

consultative board

Bobby Peek (South Africa)[email protected] Makama (Swaziland)[email protected] Bassey (Nigeria) [email protected] Wadzah (Ghana) [email protected]

secretariat

George Awudi (Ghana) [email protected]

foe apac

majelis

Hemantha Withanage (Sri Lanka)Theiva Lingam (Malaysia)Derec Davies (Australia)Jeong Kim (South Korea)Prakash Sharma (Nepal)

convenor

Hemantha Withanage (Sri Lanka) [email protected]

foe europe

executive committee

Andy Atkins/Elaine Gilligan (EWNI)Oisin Coghlan (Ireland)/Ellie Cijvat (Sweden)Georgina Gal (Hungary)/Bertrand Sansonnens(Switzerland)Lawrence Sudlow/Liliane Spendeler (Spain)Hester Schoute/Hans Berkhuizen (Netherlands)

secretariat

Magda StoczkiewiczMundo-B Building, Rue d'Edimbourg 261050 Bruxelles, BELGIUMTel 32 2 893 1000 / Fax 32 2 893 1035E-mail [email protected]://www.foeeurope.org

foe latin america and caribbean

excom

Isaac Rojas (Costa Rica) [email protected] Nansen (Uruguay) [email protected]úcia Ortíz (Brazil) [email protected]

secretariat

Mario Godinez (Guatemala) [email protected]

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international activities

programmes and campaigns

economic justice: resistingneoliberalism programmeLucia Ortiz, Brazil, [email protected]

Steering group: Hemantha Withanage, APAC [email protected] Peek, Africa, [email protected] Garcia Munoz, ATALC,[email protected] Orenstein, US, [email protected]

corporates campaignPaul de Clerck, Netherlands, [email protected]

forests & biodiversity programmeIsaac Rojas, Costa Rica, [email protected]

Steering group: Shamila Ariffin, APAC, [email protected] Mutsitsa Kureeba, Africa, [email protected] Sanchez, ATALC, [email protected] Sansonnens, Europe,[email protected] Horner, US, [email protected]

food sovereignty programmeMartín Drago, Uruguay, [email protected] Chandrasekaran, EWNI (also represents Europe)[email protected]

Steering group:Mariann Bassey, Africa, [email protected] Germonimo, ATALC, [email protected] Hoffman, US, [email protected] Carvalho, APAC, [email protected] Sanchez, Europe, [email protected]

climate justice and energy

programmeSarah-Jayne Clifton, EWNI, [email protected] Bhatnagar, Mozambique, [email protected]

Steering group: FoE Korea/FoE Nepal - names to be confirmed Jose Elosegui and Tatiana Roa, ATALC,[email protected] and [email protected] Kamese and Siziwe Khanyile, Africa,[email protected] and [email protected] Schebarth and Asad Rehman, Europe,[email protected] [email protected] Orenstein, US, [email protected]

resistance to mining, oil & gas Romel de Vera, LRC/FoE [email protected]

Steering group: Reinford Mwangonde, Africa, [email protected] Ritsema, Europe, [email protected] Castro, ATALC, [email protected]

agrofuels campaign

Steering group: Damien Ase, APAC, [email protected] Rosenoer, US, [email protected] Richter, Europe, [email protected] Diaz Pena/Simone Lovera, ATALC,[email protected] Bassey and Daniel Ribeiro, Africa,[email protected], [email protected]

cross-programme projects

land rights, land grabbing and unsus-tainable consumptionKirtana Chandrasekaran, EWNI, [email protected], Romel de Vera, LRC/FoE Philippines

[email protected]

climate and biodiversity financeIsaac Rojas, Costa Rica, [email protected]

Sarah-Jayne Clifton, EWNI, [email protected]

transformationSarah-Jayne Clifton, EWNI, [email protected]

Martín Drago, Uruguay, [email protected]

corporate capture of un institutions and governments

Lucia Ortiz, Brazil, [email protected]

Paul de Clerck, Netherlands, [email protected]

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Argentina Amigos de la Tierra

[Eduardo Sánchez]Av. Córdoba 5051C1414BAI, Buenos AiresARGENTINATel 5411 4773 [email protected]

www.amigos.org.ar

Australia Friends of the Earth

[International Liaison Office:Derec Davies and MarisolSalinas] PO Box 2223065 FitzroyAUSTRALIATel 61 39 419 8700Fax 61 39 416 [email protected]

Austria Global 2000

[Christina Hirschbeck]Neustiftgasse 36A-1070 ViennaAUSTRIATel 43 1 812 57 300 Fax 43 1 812 57 [email protected]

Bangladesh BELA

[Syeda Rizwana Hasan]House no. 15/A Road no. 3Dhanmondi R/A, Dhaka-1205BANGLADESHTel 880 2 861428Fax 880 2 [email protected]

Belgium Les Amis de la Terre

[Ezio Gandin]Mundo Namur - 98, rue Nanon 5000 Namur BELGICA Tel 32 81 390639 Fax 32 81 390638 [email protected]

www.amisdelaterre.be

Brazil Nucleo Amigos da Terra

[Lucia Ortiz Childs]The CASANATRua Olavo Bilac 192CEP 90040-310Porto AlegreRio Grande do SulBrazil 90040-310Tel 55 51 3332 8884Fax 55 51 3332 [email protected]@natbrasil.org.br

Cameroon Centre for

Environment and Development

[Samuel Nguiffo]PO Box 3430YaoundeCAMEROONTel 237 222 38 57/ 996 57 98Fax 237 222 38 59www.cedcameroun.org

Canada FoE/Les Amis de la

Terre

[Beatrice Olivastri]260 St. Patrickstreet., Suite300K1N 5K5 Ottawa, Ontario CANADATel 1 613 241 0085Fax 1 613 241 [email protected]

Chile CODEFF

[Jenia Joffre]Ernesto Reyes 035,ProvidenciaSantiagoCHILETel 56 2 7772534Fax 56 2 [email protected] [email protected]

Colombia Censat Agua Viva

[Tatiana Roa Avendaño]Diagonal 24 No 27A-42Bogota DCCOLOMBIATel 57 1 244 24 65 / 244 05 81/ 337 77 09Fax 57 1 2442465 / 2440581 /[email protected]@[email protected]

Costa Rica Asociacion

Comunidades Ecologistas la

Ceiba / Amigos de la Tierra /

COECOCEIBA

[Isaac Rojas]Partado 124231000 San JoseCOSTA RICATel 2 506 223 3925Fax 2 506 223 [email protected]

Croatia Zelena Akcija /

Green Action

[Jagoda Munic]Frankopanska 1 pp. 9521000 Zagreb CROATIATel 385 99 4813 096Fax 385 1 4813 [email protected]

Curaçao Amigu di Tera

[Lloyd Narain]PO Box 4688WillemstadCURAÇ[email protected]

Cyprus Friends of the Earth

[Savvas Zotos] PO Box 534113302 LimassolCYPRUSTel 357 25 347042Fax 357 25 [email protected]

Czech Republic Hnutí Duha

[Vojtech Kotecky]Pratele Zeme CR Udolni 33602 00 BrnoCZECH REPUBLICTel 420 5 4521 4431Fax 420 5 4521 [email protected]

Denmark NOAH

[Kim Ejlertsen] Norrebrogade 39/12200 Kobenhavn NDENMARKTel 45 3536 1212Fax 45 3536 [email protected]@noah.dkwww.noah.dk

El Salvador Centro

Salvadoreo de Tecnologa

Apropiada

[Ricardo Navarro]Apartado 3065San SalvadorEL SALVADORTel 503 2213 140Fax 503 2220 [email protected]

England, Wales & NorthernIreland Friends of the Earth

[Contact Mike Childs]26-28 Underwood StreetN1 7JQ LondonUNITED KINGDOMTel 44 207 490 1555Fax 44 207 490 [email protected]

Estonia Eesti Roheline

Liikumine

[Jaanus Valja]Tiigi 8-2451003 TartuESTONIATel 372 7 422532Fax 372 7 [email protected]

Finland Suomen Maan ystävät ry

[Soile Koskinen]Kirkkotie 6-1020540 TurkuFINLANDTel 358 45 886 3958Fax 358 2 237 [email protected]

Flanders and BrusselsFriends of the Earth

Vlaanderen & Brussel / FoE

Flanders and Brussels

[David Heller]Maria Hendrikaplein 59000 GentBELGIUMTel 32 9 242 87 52Fax 32 9 242 8751 [email protected]

France Les Amis de la Terre

[Martine Laplante]2 B Rue Jules Ferry93100 MontreuilFRANCETel 33 1 48 51 3222Fax 33 1 48 [email protected]

Georgia The Greens

Movement of Georgia

[Mrs Ketevan Kiria]10a Nutsubidze str.0177, Tbilisi GEORGIATel/fax: 995 32 [email protected]

Germany BUND/FoE

Germany

[Antje von Broock]Am Koellnischen Park 110179 BerlinGERMANYTel 49 30 27 58 64 0Fax 49 30 27 58 64 [email protected] www.bund.net

Ghana Friends of the Earth

[Theo Anderson]Private Mail BagGeneral Post OfficeAccraGHANATel +233-21030-512312Fax 233 21 512 [email protected]@yahoo.com

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[Joseph Antoine]PO Box 521Lucas StreetSt. George'sGRENADA, WEST INDIESTel 1 473 440 7192 Fax 1 473 440 7192

Guatemala CEIBA

Km. 56.5 CarreteraInteramericanaCasa 1-265, Aldea BuenaVistaChimaltenangoGUATEMALATel 502 7839 60 33Fax 502 7839 [email protected]

Haiti Haiti Survie

[Aldrin Calixte]Delmas 65, Rue Durandis #2Port-au-princeHAITITel 509 2137973Fax [email protected]

Honduras Movimiento Madre

Tierra

[Juan Almendares]PO Box 2035TegucigalpaHONDURASTel 504 232 4204Fax 504 235 [email protected]

[email protected]

Hungary Magyar

Termeszetvedok Szovetsege

[Istvan Farkas]PO Box 123Ulloi u 91/b, III/21H-1091 BudapestHUNGARYTel 36 1 216 7297Fax 36 1 216 [email protected]

Indonesia WALHI

[Muhammad Teguh Surya]Jl. Tegal Parang Utara No. 1412790 Jakarta SelatanINDONESIATel 62 21 794 1672Fax 62 21 794 [email protected]

Ireland Friends of the Earth

[Oisin Coghlan]9 Upper Mount StreetDublin 2IRELANDTel 353 1 639 4652 [email protected]

Italy Amici della Terra

[Laura Radiconcini]Via di Torre Argentina, 1800186 RomeITALYTel 39 06 6875308 / 6868289Fax 39 06 683 [email protected]

Japan Friends of the Earth

[Randal Helten]1F 3-30-8 Ikebukuro*Toshima-ku*171-0014 Tokyo JAPANTel 81 3 6907 7217Fax 81 3 6907 7219 [email protected]

Latvia Latvijas Zemes draugi

[Janis Ulme]Margrietas iela 16-3, ZemesDraugi c/o VIF LV-1966 RigaLATVIATel 37127225112 E-pasts: [email protected]@zemesdraugi.lvhttp://www.zemesdraugi.lv/lv/

Liberia Sustainable Development

Institute (SDI)

[Silas Kpanan’Ayoung Siakor]P. O. Box 5678, DuarzohnVillage, Robertsfield HighwayMargibi County, LIBERIATel 231 77 089947/ [email protected]

Lithuania Lietuvos Zaliuju

Judejimas

[Renata Perlibaite]I. Kanto 6P.O. Box 160, 44002 KaunasLITHUANIATel 370 37 324241Fax 370 37 [email protected]

Luxembourg Mouvement

Ecologique

6, Rue Vauban2663 LUXEMBOURGTel 352 439 0301Fax 352 [email protected]

Macedonia, f.y.r. of Dvizenje

na Ekologistite na

Makedonija/DEM

[Ruska Miceva]ul. "Vasil Gjorgov" BB, Baraka6, 1000 SkopjeMACEDONIA, F.Y.R. OFTel 389 2 3 220 518 Fax 389 23 128 [email protected]

MalawiCitizens For Justice(CFJ)

[Reinford Mwangonde]email: [email protected] Estate, Sector 1, Plot#574, Lilongwe, MalawiPostal: Post Dot Net, BoxX100 Crossroad, Lilongwe,MALAWITel 265 (0)1 727828265 (0)1 727822Cell 265 (0) 99 9 678 031265 (0) 88 4 376 [email protected]

Malaysia Sahabat Alam

Malaysia/SAM

[Meenakshi Raman]21 Lintang Delima 15 11700 PenangMALAYSIATel 60 4659 6930Fax 60 4659 [email protected]

Mali GUAMINA

[Souleymane Dembele]Hamdallaye Rue 42 Porte no.232B.P. 2744 Bamako MALITel 223-225910Fax [email protected]

[email protected]/guamina

Malta Moviment ghall-Ambjent

[Martin Galea De Giovanni]PO Box 13CMR 1000 VallettaMALTATel 356 21342269 Fax 356 21342269 [email protected] www.foemalta.org

Mauritius Maudesco

[Rajen Awotar]63 Avenue HirondellesSodnac, Quartre BornesMAURITIUS Tel 230 467 2565Fax 230 424 [email protected]

MexicoOtros Mundos

[Gustavo Castro Soto]Calle Francisco I. Maderonum. 49Barrio GuadalupeC.P. 29230 San Cristóbal delas CasasChiapas, MEXICOTelephone 0052 (967) 6316643guscastro@otrosmundoschia-pas.orgwww.otrosmundoschiapas.org

Mozambique Justica

Ambiental

[Anabela A. Lemos]Rua Marconi #110 1 andar,Maputo, MOZAMBIQUETel 258 21 496668Fax 258 21 [email protected]@gmail.comwww.ja.org.mz

Nepal Pro-Public

[Prakash Sharma]PO BOX 14307Gautam Budha MargaKathmandu NEPALTel 977-1-268023Fax [email protected]

Netherlands Milieudefensie

[Contact Mia Liesenmeijer]Postbus 191991000 GD AmsterdamNETHERLANDSTel 31-20-5507300Fax 31-20-5507310mia.liesenmeijer@milieudefen-sie.nlwww.milieudefensie.nl

New Zealand Friends of the

Earth

[John Whyte]PO Box 5599Wellesley Street1 AucklandNEW ZEALANDTel 64 9 3609149Fax 64 9 3609149 [email protected]

Nigeria Environmental Rights

Action

[Nnimmo Bassey]PO Box 10577 Ugbowo214 Uselu -Lagos RoadBenin City NIGERIATel 234 52 880619Fax 234 52 600165Cell +234 803 727 [email protected]

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Norway Norges

Naturvernforbund

[Jan Thomas Odegaard]Postal address: Grensen 9 B,0159 Oslo,Norway Visiting address: Miljohuset G9i Grensen 9 B, OsloTel 47 23 10 96 10 Fax 47 23 10 96 [email protected]

Palestine PENGON

[Abeer Al Butmeh]PO Box 565PARC BuildingRamallahPALESTINETel 972 2 6565890/87Fax 972 2 [email protected]

Papua New Guinea Center for

Environmental Law and

Community Rights / CELCOR

[Damien Ase]PO BOX 4373Boroko, National CapitalDistrictPAPUA NEW GUINEATel 675 323 4509Fax 675 311 [email protected]

Paraguay Sobrevivencia

[Oscar Rivas] Casilla de Correos 1380Asuncion PARAGUAYTel 595 21 480 182/ 595 21425 716Fax 595 21 480 182/ 595 21425 [email protected]

www.sobrevivencia.org.py

Peru LABOR

[Edwin Guzmán]Urb. Magisterial K-12IloPERUTel 51 53 481816 / 481208Fax 51 54 [email protected]

Philippines Legal Rights and

Natural Resources Center

[Jocelyn Matias Villanueva]24 Malingap Street Teachers'Village Quezon CityPHILIPPINES 1101Tel 632 928 1372/632 4361101Fax 632 [email protected]

Poland Polski Klub

Ekologiczny/PKE

[Maria Staniszewska]Ziemowita str. 144-100 GliwicePOLANDTel/Fax: 48 32231 [email protected] or [email protected]

Scotland Friends of the Earth

[Fiona Brown]Thorn House 5 Rose StreetEdinburghEH2 2PRSCOTLAND (U.K.)Tel: 44 131 243 2700Fax: 44131 243 [email protected]@foe-scotland.org.ukwww.foe-scotland.org.uk

Sierra Leone Friends of the

Earth

[Abubakar Sesay]P.M. Bag 95033 Robert StreetFreetownSIERRA LEONETel 232-76-837647Fax [email protected]

Slovakia Friends of the Earth-

CEPA

[Juraj Zamkovsky]Ponicka Huta 65976 33 PonikySLOVAKIATel 421 48 4193718Fax 421 48 [email protected]/cepa

South Africa GroundWork

[Bobby Peek]P.O. Box 2375Pietermaritzburg 3200South AfricaTel 27 33 342 5662Fax 27 33 342 [email protected]

South Korea Korea Federation for

Environmental Movements

[Ms Hyun ji Kim]NuHa-Dong 251Jongno-gu110-806 SeoulKOREATel 82-2-735-7000Fax [email protected]://english.kfem.or.kr/

Spain Amigos de la Tierra

[Elena Bonilla]C/Cadarso 16, Bajo E, 28008Madrid, SPAINTel 34-91-306-9900Fax [email protected]

Sri Lanka Centre For

Environmental Justice

[Hemantha Withanage]20A, Kuruppu Road, Colombo08, SRI LANKATel 941 1268 3282Fax 941 1268 [email protected] [email protected]

Swaziland Yonge Nawe

[Thuli Makama]PO Box 2061MbabaneSwazilandTel 268 404 7701Fax 268 404 [email protected]

Sweden Miljoforbundet

Jordens Vanner

[Ankin Ljungman]Box 7048S-402 31 GöteborgSWEDENTel 46 31 12 1808Fax 46 31 12 [email protected]

Switzerland Pro Natura

[Bertrand Sansonnens]Dornacherstrasse 1924053 BaselSWITZERLANDTel 41 61 317 9191Fax 41 61 317 [email protected]

Tanzania Lawyer's Environmental Action

Team (LEAT)

[Tundu A. M. Lissu]Mikocheni B, Mazingira Street,P.O. Box 12605,Dar-es-Salaam, TANZANIATel 255-22-2780859Fax 255-22-2780859 [email protected]

www.leat.or.tz

Timor-LesteHaburas Foundation

[Demetrio do Amaral deCarvalho]Rua Celestino da Silva FarolDili TIMOR-LESTE, PO Box390Tel: (670) 3310103, [email protected],[email protected]

Togo Les Amis de la Terre

[Mensah Franco Todzro]BP 20190Lomé TOGOTel 228 2221731Fax 228 [email protected]

Tunisia Association

Tunisienne pour la Protection

de la Nature et de

l'Environnement/ATPNE

[Ayachi Abrougui]12 Rue Tantaoui El JawhariEl Omrane1005 Tunis TUNISIATel 216 71959081Fax 216 [email protected]

UgandaNational Assciation of

Professional Environmentalists

(NAPE)

[Mr Muramuzi Frank]National Association ofProfessional EnvironmentalistsP.O. Box 29909, KampalaBlock 265,Plot No. 7138 Entebbe Road,Zana,Tel: +256 (0) 414 534453;[email protected]@nape.org.ugwww.nape.org.ug

UkraineZelenyi Svit

[Yuri Samoylenko]Kontraktova Square 4Kiev 04070UKRAINETel: 380 56 7781301Fax: 380 56 [email protected]

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United StatesFriends of the Earth[Karen Orenstein]1100 15th Street NW11th FloorWashington, DC 20005Tel: +1 202-783-7400Fax: +1 [email protected]@foe.orgwww.foe.org

UruguayREDES

[Karin Nansen]San Jose 142311200 MontevideoURUGUAYTel: 598 2 908 2730Fax: 598 2 902 [email protected]


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CEE Bankwatch NetworkNa Rozcesti 6Prague 9, 190 00CZECH REPUBLICTel 420 2 74 81 65 71Fax 420 2 74 81 65 [email protected]

Corporate Europe ObservatoryRue d’Edimbourg 261050 BrusselsBELGIUMtel: +32 (0)2 893 [email protected]

CorpWatch2958 24th Street San Francisco, CA 94110USA Tel: [email protected] www.corpwatch.org

Blue Planet Project/Council of Canadians700-170 Laurier Street West, OttawaOntario ON K1P 5V5CANADATel: 1 613 233 2773Fax 1 [email protected]

Earthlife Africac/o Earthlife e ThekwiniPO Box 18722, 4014 Dalbridge SOUTH AFRICATel 27 826521533 Fax 27 11 339 [email protected]/

Ecopeace/ FoE Middle EastPO Box 840252 - Amman JORDAN 11181Tel 962-6-5866602/3Fax [email protected]

International Rivers 2150 Allston Way, Suite 300Berkeley, CA 94704-1378 USATel: +1 510 848 1155 Fax: +1 510 848 1008 [email protected]://www.internationalrivers.org

Mineral Policy InstitutePO Box 6043GirrawheenPerth WA 6064AUSTRALIAPhone/Fax: +61 [0]8 9343 0151Media/Urgent: 0450 901 [email protected]

Peace Boat2F, 3-14-3 TakadanobabaShinjuku-ku 169-0075 Tokyo JAPANTel 00-81-333638047Fax [email protected]

Rainforest Action Network221 Pine Street, Suite 500San Francisco, CA 94104 USATel 1 415 398 4404Fax 1 415 398 [email protected]

World Information Service on EnergyPO Box 59636, Ketelhuisplein 431040 LC AmsterdamNETHERLANDSTel 31-20-6126368Fax [email protected]/wise/

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