ECLAC side event at COP21 to advocate Caribbean debt relief
World December 9, 2015 | 10:42 am
Santiago, Chile.- The possibilities forintegrating the twin imperatives of pursuing climate resilience and debtreduction with a proposal for debt for climate adaptation swaps, will beconsidered at [...]
Former Dominican leader: Venezuela electoral system ´solid´
World December 7, 2015 | 9:08 am
Caracas.- A formerDominican Republic president who heads the Electoral Mission of the union of SouthAmerican countries (UNASUR) sent to Venezuela for Sunday's elections said that country'selectoral[...]
Philippines launches world’s first national human rights investigation into 50 big polluters
World December 5, 2015 | 10:49 am
Paris.– The Philippines Commission on Human Rights (CHR) announced that it will launch an investigation on December 10 (International Human rights Day), which could hold fossil fuel companies res[...]
In 3 steps, here is what Paris can do, and what we need to do afterwards
World November 28, 2015 | 12:33 pm
Paris.– The last few weeks have seen the best and the worst in terms of climate change. Victories which pundits told us for years were “impossible” have been coming at a breathtaking pace. Co[...]
SDHEPA Project campaign: Hospital for Haiti
World November 23, 2015 | 12:22 pm
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Syrians detained in St. Maarten had stopped in Dominican Republic: AP
World November 21, 2015 | 12:25 pm
Philipsburg, St. Maarten.– The three Syrians detained in St. Maarten for traveling with fake Greek passports had traveled from Europe and stopped in Brazil, the Dominican Republic and Haiti befor[...]
Greenpeace exposes recently burnt Indonesian forest replaced with palm oil
World November 5, 2015 | 12:28 pm
Jakarta.- New photosand video released today by Greenpeace Southeast Asia show freshly planted palmoil saplings on deforested peatland where several fires have recently brokenout at the edges of an[...]
US agents detain Dominican, Haitian, Cuban nationals
World October 31, 2015 | 10:43 am
New York.– The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency said several Caribbean nationals were among 46 individuals arrested following a major immigration sweep in New Jersey[...]
Greenpeace calls on Indonesia’s plantation industry to adopt Fire Action Plan
World October 29, 2015 | 9:45 am
Jakarta, 29 October2015 - Greenpeace has launched a challenge to the plantation industry torespond to the devastating scale of the forest fires crisis, set out in a newGreenpeace Southeast Asia ana[...]
Super-storm Patricia weakens as it drenches Mexico
World October 24, 2015 | 11:24 am
Mexico DF.– The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Hurricane Patricia has now degraded to tropical depression status over northern Mexico. As expected, once it hit landfall the super-storm rapid[...]
Greenpeace applauds Apple’s renewable energy commitment in China, urges competitors to follow
World October 22, 2015 | 9:59 am
Beijing.- In response to Apple’s announcement that it will work with its partners in China to push to use renewable energy for the manufacturing of Apple products, Greenpeace USA Senior IT Sector[...]
Chemical in sunscreen attacks coral reefs
World October 20, 2015 | 9:23 am
Santo Domingo /PRNewswire/.-- A new study published today in a toxicology journal has found that achemical widely used in personal care products such as sunscreen, poses anecological threat to cora[...]
Greenpeace activists protest South Korea’s plan to build world’s largest nuclear power plant
World October 13, 2015 | 10:03 am
Seoul.- Greenpeace activists today entered therestricted zone of the Kori nuclear power plant near Busan, South Korea’ssecond largest city, to protest the country’s expansion of nuclear and it[...]
Greenpeace global campaign: Change tuna industry for good…today
World October 9, 2015 | 10:49 am
"As the appetite forcheap fish worldwide grows, so does the demand for men who are paid little ornothing to catch it. Thailand's $7 billion annual seafood export industry isbuilt on the backs [...]
Dominican man pleads guilty to illegally re-entering U.S.
World October 3, 2015 | 12:48 pm
AKWESASNE -- A Dominican man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court Friday to illegally re-entering the United States following removal, according to Syracuse-b[...]
Taiwan faces EU sanction on fisheries
World October 1, 2015 | 9:35 am
Taipei, 1 October 2015 - Three weeks after GreenpeaceRainbow Warrior busted Taiwanese tuna longliner Shuen De Ching No.888 (???888?)fishing illegally in the Pacific, the European Commission has yel[...]
Fossil fuel companies face landmark national human rights complaint on climate change
World September 22, 2015 | 11:47 am
Manila.- Typhoonsurvivors and civil society groups in the Philippines today delivered acomplaint to the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR) callingfor an investigation into the resp[...]
Tropical Storm Ida poses no threat to land
World September 19, 2015 | 11:08 am
Miami.– Tropical Storm Ida formed Friday night in the central Atlantic Ocean, over 1,000 miles east of the Lesser Antilles. According to the U.S. National Hurricane Center forecast, Ida is expect[...]
Cubans ready for Pope Francis’s visit but do not expect miracles
World September 19, 2015 | 11:03 am
Havana.– Cubans feel especially warm to Pope Francis, who will visit the island for the first time as pontiff, for his fellow Latin American blood, humble image and help towards ending hostilitie[...]
Greenpeace calls for overhaul of Pacific fishing practices after Nauru transshiment ban
World September 17, 2015 | 8:32 am
Sydney.– Greenpeace Australia Pacific has called for aregion-wide ban on the transshipment of fish catches following Nauru’sannouncement today that it would no longer allow the practice in its[...]
