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Katie Hodgetts and Kate Whitaker   Today marks two weeks since women in Yarl’s Wood detention centre started a strike to protest the UK Home Office’s immoral practices, inhumane treatment of detainees and unfair detention system. Read a full list of their demands here.   Yarl’s Wood is an ‘Immigration Removal Centre’ in Bedfordshire, England, for …

Hunger For Freedom: Solidarity with Yarl’s Wood hunger strikersRead More

Mikayel Hovhannisyan, a member of YFoEE’s food and agriculture working group, warns of the huge dangers posed by the Amulsar gold mine in Armenia, which he is campaigning against. Local groups in Armenia, including the Armenian Environmental Front, have been organising against a large gold mine project on the Amulsar mountain, in the South-East of the …

Armenian mining project threatens local environment and communitiesRead More

Elena, from Global 2000/Young Friends of the Earth Austria, reflects on her visit to Environmental Rights action (ERA)/Friends of the Earth Nigeria. This exchange was part of a Friends of the Earth International project working to strengthen solidarity and collaboration between youth in Europe and Africa. The 11 days I spent in Nigeria in the …

Environmental education and fighting Big Oil – a visit to FoE NigeriaRead More

Today, Nature and Youth/Young FoE Norway and Greenpeace Norway are filing an appeal against the Norwegian Government for Arctic oil drilling. The appeal challenges the Oslo District Court decision, which said that Norwegian government “can not be held accountable for global emissions from Norwegian produced oil and gas abroad.” Due to the urgent need to …

YFoE Norway takes government to supreme court over arctic oilRead More

  “Four weeks ago I left my ordinary Dutch life to give it a try: working on a remote organic farm in Wales and work on a sustainable food system. I knew I was going to learn a lot of new things but I didn’t know I was going to have so much FUN!!” – Tosca …

Agri-Activism OpportunityRead More

Kristiyan Naidenov What does it mean to negotiate for the climate and to take decisions about the future of the planet? Leaving aside any government representatives, summits, media statements and reportages, a group of sixteen young people now can answer these questions! Because they participated in the first simulation of the United Nations Climate Change …

COP Simulation in Sofia!Read More

Maria Novita Saragi from YFoE Russia “Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don’t have the strength to fight it.” Said George R.R. Martin, the  American writer who wrote the phenomenal series Game of Thrones. The …

The High North ConferenceRead More

Today was the last day in court where three environmental organisations – including Natur og Ungdom/Young FoE Norway – have taken on the Norwegian government for opening up new areas in the Arctic to oil drilling. The plaintiffs have been arguing that drilling for new oil violates the Norwegian Constitution and contravenes the Paris Agreement. …

The People vs Arctic Oil: Historic climate trial endsRead More

Whilst political decision makers have been failing to respond to the urgency of the climate crisis during negotiations at COP 23, young people have challenged them from inside and outside the climate conference halls. COP 23, the UNFCCC international climate change negotiations, took place in Bonn, Germany in early November 2017. The talks were presided …

Never trust a COPRead More

A landmark court case kicks off today, as a historic people-powered lawsuit against the Norwegian government for granting new licenses to drill for oil in the Arctic Barents Sea reaches the courts. The plaintiffs, Natur og Ungdom/Young Friends of the Earth Norway and Greenpeace Nordic, argue that the decision contravenes the Paris climate agreement and violates …

YFoE Norway sues government over Arctic oil drillingRead More