Giving Mother Earth A Voice in Paris – International Tribunal of the rights of Nature Paris – 4&5 December – Maison des Metallos – 94, Rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011 Paris Register here Against the backdrop of the UNFCCC climate talks in Paris—highlighting false solutions and failed negotiations—we can do more Read more
Posted September 29, 2015 By: Femke Wijdekop on : Salt Photo credit: US Fish from Flickr Our planet is now in the midst of its sixth mass extinction of plants and animals — the sixth wave of extinctions in the past half-billion years. We’re currently experiencing the worst spate of Read more
Since 40 years, Glyphosate, the basic „ingredient“ of the herbicide „Roundup“ has been applied to vast stretches of agricultural monocultures in more and more countries, and its use has been on the increase. www.sueddeutsche.de/gesundheit/bund-untersuchungen The article also states that according to WHO, glyphosate has been detected in lesser concentrations in Read more
Photograph: Urgenda/Chantal Bekker A Personal Report from Femke Wijdekop, one of the End Ecocide on Earth experts’ team : Dutch citizens win climate case against the State: 24 June 2015 Together with 886 citizens, Dutch NGO Urgenda brought a climate liability case against the Dutch state. I joined this case Read more
In January 2013 Femke started working with the End Ecocide in Europe campaign and Polly Higgins’ global campaign to Eradicate Ecocide. Listen to Femke Wijdekop, one of our volunteer, on a TEDx conference in Haarlem : “The Enlightenment gave us fundamental rights and freedom. Unfortunately, we have used these rights Read more