Defending Rights

39th issue of Forest Cover, the newsletter of the Global Forest Coalition

14 Nov, 2011

We present the most recent version of the Global Forest Coalition’s newsletter in intergovernmental forest-related policy processes: Forest Cover no.39. This issue includes an outlook for the upcoming 17th Conference of the Parties of the Framework Convention on Climate Change, and a report of the last preparatory negotiation session for this conference, which took place in Panama in October. It also includes a report on a national workshop on the drivers of forest loss in Tanzania, and an update on the latest state of …

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The Global Forest Coalition supports the Free West Papua Campaign

14 Oct, 2011

West Papua needs your help! The forgotten land of West Papua is under brutal Indonesian military occupation. Its tribal people are being slaughtered, and their unique environment destroyed. But the world…

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Cyberaction: Sandra missing for 6 months and still in our hearts

30 Aug, 2011

  With 6 months having past since the disappearance of Sandra Viviana Cuellar and no news of her whereabouts,we want to promote an on-line action in which during a month…

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38th Issue of Forest Cover, the newsletter of the Global Forest Coalition

19 Aug, 2011

We present the most recent version of the Global Forest Coalition’s Newsletter: Forest Cover no.38. The editorial of this issue of Forest Cover deals with the road to Rio+20 and…

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Global Forest Coalition to United Nations: Nature at Whose Service?

5 Jun, 2011

On the eve of the next round of United Nations climate talks, the Global Forest Coalition (GFC), a worldwide network of more than 50 NGOs and Indigenous Peoples’ Organisations, has…

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Fracturing solidarity: The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement in context

20 Apr, 2011

Note: The Indigenous Environmental Network’s Clayton Thomas-Muller is quoted in the article. Clayton is on the board of Global Justice Ecology Project (GJEP is the North America Focal Point of…

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37th Issue of Forest Cover, the newsletter of the Global Forest Coalition

1 Apr, 2011

Latest version of the Global Forest Coalition Newsletter. Since the term ‘Green Economy’ seems to become increasingly popular, this edition includes an editorial on the ugly shade of the green economy,…

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Response to the UNFCCC Call for Views for Forests in Exhaustion

1 Apr, 2011

Joint declaration supported by 64 national and international NGOs and Indigenous Peoples’ Organizations calling for excluding monoculture tree plantations from financial support to forest and climate change-related programs. It is…

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Forest and Indigenous Groups Reject Cancún Forest Deal

29 Nov, 2010

Joint Press Release from Global Forest Coalition and Indigenous Environmental Network 26 November, 2010 REDD Will Violate Rights, Accelerate Emissions, Groups Warn Cancún, Mexico – Indigenous and environmental rights groups…

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Cop10hagen and the Redd-Green Economy

9 Nov, 2010

So will Nagoya become the CBD’s Copenhagen? Are we heading for another COP-flop? article by Simone Lovera, in CBD Alliance Newsletter of 25 October 2010 This important question formed the…

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