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Pile of rubble marking when a home used to be
Press Release

11 Community Leaders Jailed in DRC

The Unacceptable Cost of Speaking Truth to Tenke Fungurume Mining

A collective of international and national civil society organizations join their voices to condemn the arbitrary arrest and detention of 11 community leaders from Lualaba province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). These leaders were arrested for protesting the impacts on their lives, livelihoods, and health from the operations of Tenke Fungurume Mining (TFM), one of the largest copper-cobalt mining companies in the world and subsidiary of the CMOC Group, the world's largest cobalt producer. 

Cattle scattered across a deforested landscape
Press Release

NGOs to the European fashion industry: your reputation is at risk

Leather imports represent one of the strongest links between the European market and deforestation, labor abuses and Indigenous rights violations driven by cattle ranching in the Amazon. Despite this, the European Commission is proposing to grant leather an arbitrary exemption, under heavy pressure from the industry lobby

Treated cow hides hang from a conveyer belt in a leather factory
Press Release

European Commission caves to industry lobby and greenlights continued EU imports of deforestation leather

EIA welcomes the European Commission’s decision not to reopen the landmark EU Deforestation Regulation. After two years of delays, the focus now needs to be on implementation and regulatory predictability, as called for by some of the world’s largest food companies. With EU commodity consumption continuing to be a major driver of deforestation, the world’s forests […]