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180 countries adopt landmark public health decisions: To hold tobacco industry legally liable for tobacco harms

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  GREATER NOIDA, INDIA—After one week of heated negotiations and intrigues, governments representing nearly more than 90 percent of the world’s population who attended the seventh session of the World Health Organization’s global tobacco treaty negotiations in New Delhi adopted policies that will protect public health over the narrow interests of the tobacco industry. These […]

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ERA/FoEN to Lagos Speaker: Privatisation not solution to water crisis in Lagos

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The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has asked the Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Obasa Mudashiru to side with Lagos people in rejecting Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the water sector. ERA/FoEN, in a letter to the Speaker titled PRIVATISATION IS NOT SOLUTION TO LAGOS WATER PROBLEM, frowned at […]

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