Press releases from the campaign FACING FINANCE
NGO report unveils: Companies’ and Bank’s social and ecological self-commitments cannot prevent human rights abuses, exploitation of workers, destruction of the environment, and corruption. (Munich/Berlin,… Read More »Press Announcement: Self regulation is good, independent oversight is better
Company should follow the divestment-course of other investors – No more money for climate offenders and mountain top removal– environmental catastrophe is looming through new… Read More »Press release – Deutsche Bank 2015: Irresponsible, unlawful, reckless
Second United Nations meeting on the subject opens in Geneva (Geneva, 13 April 2015) – Concerns about the prospect of weapons systems that would select… Read More »Time to Move From Talk to Action on Killer Robots
Brussels/Amsterdam, October 21 – Indonesian palm oil company Bumitama announced in September 2014 that it has terminated its contract with an illegal palm oil plantation… Read More »Bumitama cuts ties with illegal palm oil plantation following Friends of the Earth pressure – OECD accepts Friends of the Earth complaint against Rabobank
Berne Declaration***Facing Finance***FairFin***Friends of the Earth Europe***urgewald***Whoprofits (Berlin, 09.12.2014) – Under EMBARGO until 11:00 – In anticipation of the International Day of Human Rights (10.12).… Read More »Press release: Dirty profits – How companies and financial institutions gain billions at the expense of people and the environment and shirk their responsibilities
NGO report identifies continuing financial ties with cluster munition producers amounting to $27 billion – German banks in retreat (Berlin, 27.11.14) Worldwide there are… Read More »Press Release: International ban on cluster munitions reaches the financial world
After 15 years of the Public Eye, the Berne Declaration and Greenpeace Switzerland are taking stock and, in their farewell to Davos and the WEF,… Read More »Public Eye Lifetime Award and The Yes Men Mark Farewell from Davos
(Geneva, 13 November 2014) – Nations must continue and deepen their deliberations in 2015 on the questions relating to ‘lethal autonomous weapons systems’ with the… Read More »Substantive Talks on Killer Robots Must Continue – Convention on Conventional Weapons decision due on 14 November
On the occasion of the 4th anniversary of the coming into force of the Convention on Cluster Munitions (August 1) the Cluster Munitions Coalition is… Read More »Press Release: Four years of cluster munitions: Use forbidden! investment allowed?
Brussels/Berlin, May 26, 2014 – Deutsche Bank has told Friends of the Earth Europe and Rettet den Regenwald that it sold its shares in the… Read More »Press Release: Deutsche Bank divests from Bumitama after civil society pressure
