On Monday June 1, the next round of negotiations for a new, global climate treaty kicked off. 2009 in Copenhagen was the first attempt to build such a deal – arisen with large expectations, the Copenhagen Summit totally failed and the countries decided “to take note” of the piece of paper known as the “Copenhagen…
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What stereotype do you want to smash? – Ecosprinter Photobooth
In our next edition of the Ecosprinter Photobooth during the FYEG Spring Camp in Ustek, Czech Republic, the Ecosprinter asked participants- What stereotype do you want to smash?
Why Can’t We Keep It Clean, Czech Republic?
By Morgan Henley, Member of the Executive Committee of the Czech Young Greens Imagine you live in Horní Jiřetín, a town of around 2500 people in northern Czech Republic that is set to be destroyed if the Czech government decides to remove its current limits on coal mining. The town sits upon reserves of lignite…
On GMOs and Global (In)justice
Written by the activists of the FYEG Global Justice Working Group and the FYEG Food Systems and Animal Rights Working Group. This weekend, thousands of people worldwide marched against the multinational biotech corporation Monsanto. 400 cities in more than 40 countries participated with an abundance of protesters showing people power against unethical GMO experiments. GMOs (genetically…
Homophobia On The Rise In Russia
On the 17th of May 2015 we celebrated another International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. On the one hand, in many European countries the situation of LQBTQIA community improves, on the other in some it doesn’t or, like in Russia, it gets dramatically worse. A Russian activist Anasiasia Sheveleva tells us about the situation…
The Green Surge and the UK General Election
On May 7, we will see one of the most hotly contested general elections in the history of the UK with no party expected to win an outright majority in the parliament’s House of Commons. The Green Party of England & Wales and the Green parties of Scotland and Northern Ireland are at the heart…
Catalan Young Greens on Marijuana Legalization
As Young Greens, we often get the reputation of being a bunch of teenagers who like get high and talk politics. Despite that this is largely an incorrect stereotype for many Young Greens across the world, it does speak true about one point. It has long been Green parties and their youth counterparts that have…
Responsibility to Protect: The problem with neglecting its political dimension
This post was originally published in April of 2013 Seeing children dying at the horn of Africa makes us feel guilty, seeing the piles of dead bodies in the streets of Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda as well makes us feel that we just bluntly have to do something against it. That we have…
Call for participants: “Speak up! Green voices in the media” seminar June 17-21
Are you a budding writer or editor? Do you blog or contribute to an online magazine or news portal with a Green focus, or are you thinking of doing so? Are you simply interested in the relation of Greens to the media and the transformations taking place with the rise of new, digital and alternative…
Eliminating Racial Discrimination – Abolishing the Borders within Ourselves
By Joshua Miguel Makalintal (FYEG, Junge Grüne) Today, the world will observe the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. This year’s theme is “learning from historical tragedies to combat racial discrimination today”. Indeed, as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said, this day serves as an “opportunity to renew our commitment to building a world…