Greenpeace statement on the murder of human rights activist in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Greenpeace also expresses serious concerns for the welfare of Chebeya’s driver, Mr. Bazana, who remains missing. Floribert Chebeya Bahizire was an outspoken civil society critic and a leading ‘voice for the voiceless’. He showed exemplary courage in his peaceful pursuit of basic human and social rights for Congolese people and through his efforts to strengthen and safeguard… Read More →

Greenpeace takes action to stop Mediterranean Bluefin Tuna Fishing

Mediterranean Sea – Greenpeace activists took direct action this afternoon to stop bluefin tuna fishing in the Mediterranean. Activists from the Greenpeace ships Rainbow Warrior and the Arctic Sunrise launched high speed inflatable boats in an attempt to submerge one side of a purse seine fishing net to free the trapped tuna. As the action started on… Read More →

Atlantic bluefin tuna crisis

The bluefin crisis is the result of decades of destructive over-fishing by purse seine and longline fishing operations. These fishing methods, which take too many fish too fast, have left the Atlantic bluefin unable to recover, forcing responsible artisanal fishing operations to have to halt bluefin fishing. Greenpeace has consistently joined the call by scientists to halt… Read More →

Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal is one of the planet’s greatest lakes and the lake of superlative degrees: the deepest (1,637m), the oldest (about 25 million years), inhabited by the most diverse flora and fauna among fresh-water lakes.

Oil Industry out of US Energy Future

Greenpeace today welcomed President Obama’s sensible and encouraging first step in ensuring that the BP oil spill disaster can never happen again – but the “never” will only last for the next six months while his commission reaches a conclusion. The President went some way towards exposing the root cause of this disaster in highlighting the oil… Read More →

MALAWI: COUPLE SENTENCED TO 14 YEARS HARD LABOUR

The fourteen year sentence imposed on a Malawian couple convicted of “gross indecency” and “unnatural acts” is an outrage, Amnesty International said today. Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga were arrested by police on 28 December 2009 in Blantyre, two days after holding an engagement ceremony in the southern city’s Chirimba township.

Leading Electronics companies and Environmental organisations urge EU to restrict more hazardous substances in electronic products in 2015 to avoid more global dioxin formation

Brussels – 18 Mai 2010 – EU legislators are now in the process of deciding future restrictions on hazardous substances in electronics through the EU Restrictions on Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive.i An alliance consisting of Acer, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Sony Ericsson, together with public interest organisation ChemSec, Clean Production Action and the European Environmental Bureau, call on… Read More →