Environmental Rights Action (ERA), sometimes referred to as Friends of Earth Nigeria, is a Nigerian advocacy non-governmental organization, with a focus...
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Environmental Action is a 501(c)(4) non-profit environmental advocacy organization in the United States. Founded in 1970 by environmental activists at...
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International from 2008 through 2012 and was executive director of Environmental Rights Action for two decades. He was one of Time magazine's Heroes of the...
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Nigerian environmental activist, Social justice campaigner, and tobacco control advocate. He was the Deputy Director of Environmental Rights Action/Friends...
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1980s. It was heavily influenced by the American civil rights movement and focused on environmental racism within rich countries. The movement was later...
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approach to widen the distribution of yellow cassava. In 2011, environmental rights action group Friends of the Earth Nigeria (FoEN) unsuccessfully demanded...
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globally. Frequently environmental conflicts focus on environmental justice issues, the rights of indigenous people, the rights of peasants, or threats...
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these entities, the rights, protections, privileges, responsibilities and legal liability of a legal personality. Because environmental entities such as...
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The Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC) was a student-run, student-led US national environmental group that originated in Chapel Hill, North...
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Environmentalism or environmental rights is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement about supporting life, habitats, and surroundings. While...
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civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., who used direct action tactics such as boycotts and sit-ins, felt that the goal of nonviolent direct action was...
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protection of nature's rights in turn, advances human rights and well-being. From a rights of nature perspective, most environmental laws of the twentieth...
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human rights defenders and environmental human rights defenders (who are very often indigenous) face greater repression and risks than human rights defenders...
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Chima Williams (category Goldman Environmental Prize awardees)
executive director of the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN). Environmental Rights Action (ERA) which is an advocacy...
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to the decision to move forward with the proposed action. In this context, the term "environmental impact assessment" is usually used when applied to...
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Sophie Prize (category Environmental awards)
would not be awarded any longer due to a lack of funds. 1998: Environmental Rights Action, Nigeria 1999: Herman Daly and Thomas Kocherry 2000: Sheri Liao...
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Environmental protection is the practice of protecting the natural environment by individuals, groups and governments. Its objectives are to conserve...
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agencies to evaluate the environmental impacts of their actions and decisions, and it established the President's Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). The...
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environment and environmental racism. Staff. "UDHR Campaign 2013 Spotlight: Mossville Environmental Action Now". US Human Rights Network. US Human Rights Network...
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health, as well as human rights. The environmental movement is an international movement, represented by a range of environmental organizations, from enterprises...
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Environmental laws are laws that protect the environment. Environmental law is the collection of laws, regulations, agreements and common law that governs...
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United Nations Environment Programme (redirect from UN Environmental Programme)
Retrieved 2019-03-02. UNEP. "Nature Action". UNEP - UN Environment Programme. Retrieved 2022-03-02. UNEP. "Environmental rights and governance". UNEP - UN Environment...
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globally. Frequently environmental conflicts focus on environmental justice issues, the rights of indigenous people, the rights of peasants, or threats...
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an ongoing conflict in the Niger Delta over indigenous rights to oil resources and environmental protection. It is estimated that over 900 civilians were...
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Petroleum industry in Nigeria (redirect from Environmental impact of the petroleum industry in Nigeria)
FLARING IN NIGERIA: A HUMAN RIGHTS, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC MONSTROSITY (Climate Justice Programme and Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria)...
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consequences of decisions and actions; and "that negative impacts on the environment and on people's environmental rights be anticipated and prevented...
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certain actions or policies have a disparate impact on communities of color, violating their civil rights. Environmental law: Federal environmental statutes...
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approach (i.e. a commitment to extending equal rights to all members of a community). In environmentalism, the community is generally thought to consist...
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communities working on social justice, human rights, migrant rights, workers rights and environmental justice. It was founded by Mike Roselle and Twilly Cannon...
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Friends of the Earth (category Environmental organizations established in 1969)
Natura (Switzerland), the Korean Federation for Environmental Movement, Environmental Rights Action (FOE Nigeria) and WALHI (FOE Indonesia). Friends...
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