Plastic pellets and microplastics: tiny plastic, huge problem

Plastic pellets, the raw material for any plastic product, cause huge damage to flora, fauna and human health when spilled. The latest example for that is the environmental catastrophe at the Galician coast that happened in December 2023. Now, the European Commission wants to tackle the issue of…

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Exhibition Opening: Stand up for Human Rights - Honoring the assassinated Human Rights Defenders Bety Cariño and Jyri Jaakkola

Thirteen years have passed since Human Rights Defenders Bety Cariño from Mexico and Jyri Jaakkola from Finland were murdered as part of a humanitarian caravan. Thirteen years of impunity, suffering and the fight for justice.

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Exhibition: Stand up for Human Rights - Honoring the assassinated Human Rights Defenders Bety Cariño and Jyri Jaakkola

From Monday, December 11th to Thursday, December 14th 2023, selected pieces which were submitted for the international art competition under the theme “Semillas Que Florecen / The Seed Rises” will be exhibited in the European Parliament in Strasbourg. The art was created in memory of killed Human…

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[Translate to English:] Zeichnung von einem Mann und einer Frau mit der Überschrift Bety y Jyri.
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Bety and Jyri: The Seed Rises - Call for submission of an artistic work

We invite you to participate in the memory of Beti Cariño and Jyri Jaakkola through your art. The two activists and human rights defenders were murdered in 2010 as members of a humanitarian caravan bringing support to the Triqui community of San Juan Copala, Oaxaca, Mexico.

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Greens/EFA welcome Commission plan to end bottom trawling

This morning, the European Commission presented an action plan to end bottom trawling. In the "Action Plan for the Conservation of Fisheries Resources and Marine Ecosystems", the EU Commission calls for an end to the use of bottom trawling gear in marine protected areas from 2030. The Greens/EFA…

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Biodiversity Summit COP15: Agreement on More Biodiversity Protection

In December 2022, more than 190 countries adopted the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework at a global biodiversity summit (COP 15). This is a landmark agreement that will steer the global action on biodiversity until 2030. While it is historic that countries were able to make an agreement in the…

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