Seeing Forest As Merely A Carbon “Commodity”: Dangerous Greenwashing

Commodifying forests as merely an investment for ‘carbon credits’ has many dangerous loopholes that human rights to indigenous peoples, take action!

UK: Protest Crackdowns Undermine Democracy

UK authorities have severely restricted the right to protest, in contravention of their international human rights obligations, creating an environment in which peaceful dissent is increasingly treated as a criminal act, Human Rights Watch said in a …

The vanishing pharmacy: How climate change is reshaping traditional medicine

Gyatso Bista remembers the sacks of kutki. As a child learning to become a healer in Nepal’s kingdom of Lo Manthang, Bista would watch as heaps of the bitter-tasting herb, prized for treating fever, coughs and liver problems, arrived on horseback fro…

UN human rights mechanisms urge Guatemala to end forced evictions, protect land rights defenders - ISHR

From 14 to 25 July, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, conducted an official visit to Guatemala - only the

Cuts to a Little-Known U.S. Agency Undermine the Global Fight Against Forced Labor

For several decades, the United States has strengthened its efforts to stringently enforce anti-trafficking statutes at home with practical partnerships to prevent forced labor abroad.

An Opportunity to Address Mining Abuses Globally

When 29-year-old Norbert Amoya went to fetch water from a river in northern Zambia earlier this year, he found large numbers of dead fish and the water had a strange smell. The cause was a major mining disaster.

Culture and spirit belong at the center of wildlife conservation (commentary)

Conservation is often framed as a scientific or technical challenge — a matter of policies, protected areas and enforcement. But that lens has led conservation astray. Around the world, biodiversity continues to decline.

Keanu Reeves’ $350 Million Investment in Free Community Kitchens: A Hot Meal for Everyone – New and Tips

Unmasking Socfin’s Destructive Palm Oil Empire in Africa

An investigation reveals Socfin’s exploitation of rubber and palm oil in West Africa, leading to deforestation, landgrabbing, and shocking human rights abuses.

Global Consumer Brands Continue to Fall Short on Deforestation and Human Rights - The Understory - Rainforest Action Network

Our 2025 Keep Forests Standing Scorecard shows that corporate action on deforestation and human rights remains slow.

Papua’s ‘Empty Lands’: A Dangerous Myth Displacing Indigenous Peoples

Challenge a dangerous colonial myth that West Papua is an ’empty land’. This only serves the colonial domination of Indonesia not ancient tribes living there!

Palm Oil Practices Resemble Colonial Exploitation

Indonesian palm oil workers expose industry practices that mirror colonial exploitation: land grabbing, bad conditions, ecocide. Systemic change is needed!

Only 3% of international climate aid going to transitioning communities, says NGO report

New report on funding to slash carbon emissions finds startlingly low engagement with the people affected

Palm Oil Threatens Ancient Noken Weaving in West Papua

Colonial palm oil and sugarcane causing the loss of West Papuans’ cultural identity. Land grabs force communities from forests, threatening Noken weaving

How ‘conservation’ became a cover for land grabbing from Cebu’s Cantipla farmers

By Salome Lapiten The land knows no master. Yet it recognizes a farmer’s calloused hands, worn with the same cracks that run through the barren land. It

Karen community fighting corn and coal for clean air in northern Thailand

MAE CHAM/OMKOI, Thailand — Rain lashed down in the northern Thai village of Nong Krating as Sawattiphon Wongkasettakon described the worsening air pollution that sweeps in through the mountains here each year.

MY US WISHLIST

Hello Resisters! Here we are in December, a month of celebrations and reflection. We have been through NO KINGS, Good Trouble Lives On, NO KINGS 2.0, and more during 2025.

Violence for Palm Oil Against Peasant Communities in Honduras Meets Resistance

In the Aguán Valley of northern Honduras, peasant communities reclaiming ancestral lands face increasing violence and intimidation from armed groups linked to organised crime. The Dinant Corporatio…

Papua’s ‘Empty Lands’: A Dangerous Myth Displacing Indigenous Peoples

Challenge a dangerous colonial myth that West Papua is an ’empty land’. This only serves the colonial domination of Indonesia not ancient tribes living there!

Int’l mission urges cancellation of HAPI Inc’s IFMA, links palm oil expansion to climate injustice and militarization in Candoni, Negros

The Negros Island contingent of the International Learning and Solidarity Mission (ILSM) has urged the government to revoke the Integrated Forest

In the Shadow of COP30, Brazil is Stripping Rainforest of Protections

While the city of Belém steps up to host the COP30 global climate summit in November, in another corner of Pará state, a federal government agency is planning to hand over a large area of the Amazon rainforest to illegal cattle ranches.

What is the government afraid of? - Amazon Frontlines

What is the government afraid of? Ecuador’s government is freezing the bank accounts of Indigenous...

UN Special Rapporteur documents complaints and regional threats against environmental defenders under the Aarhus convention - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

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L’Oreal

‘Our goal is by 2020 to have none of our products linked to deforestation.’ L’Oreal’s website statement on palm oil This target has been and gone. Still, enormous environmen…