Declarations

Declaration: The Mumbai - Porto Alegre Forest Initiative

Background A number of participants at the World Social Forum 2004 met in Mumbai and believing that forest issues are in essence social and political and that forest communities are increasingly affected by globalization --and new forms of trade and economic liberalization that comes in its way-- agreed on the need to create a global movement to ensure forest conservation and peoples' rights over forests. The principles on which the movement would be based were agreed upon and circulated by the groups as the Mumbai Forest Initiative - Statement of Principles.

Joint Statement on Protected Areas to the 7th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biodiversity

Friends of the Earth International - World Rainforest Movement - Oilwatch. Kuala Lumpur, 11 February 2004

Declaración del II Foro Mesoamericano Contra las Represas "Por el Agua y la Vida de los Pueblos"

Only available in Spanish - La Esperanza Intibuca, Honduras Del 17 al 20 de julio del 2003 Preocupados por la creciente invasión de proyectos de construcción de represas que vienen imponiendo las grandes transnacionales y organismo multilaterales en alianza con los gobierno corrupto de la región Mesoamericana, nos reunimos alrededor de 150 compañeros y compañeras afectados, desplazados y desplazadas, viuda, huérfanos y sobrevivientes de la represión desatada por la construcción de represas.

The World Summit on Sustainable Development and Forests - WRM Declaration to the WSSD

Ten years after the Earth Summit, governments will be meeting again in Johannesburg, in an apparent effort to find and implement solutions to address the increasing social and environmental problems which are affecting the planet and its peoples.

World Bank’s Proposed Policy Puts World’s Forests at Risk

Statement by WRM, FPP, ED – June 2002 In the run-up to Johannesburg where governments from around the world will debate how to protect the global environment, the World Bank has released its long awaited draft policy on forests.

Statement on behalf of the World Rainforest Movement and Friends of the Earth International to the 6th Conference of the Parties of the Biodiversity Convention

The Hague, April 2002. Forest Biodiversity

Declaración del Foro Mesoamericano por la Vida "Agua, Luz y Tierra para los Pueblos"

Only available in Spanish -  Cooperativa Unión Maya Itzá, Petén - Guatemala 21 al 23 de marzo de 2002  Durante los días 21 al 23 de marzo nos hemos reunido hombres y mujeres de 98 organizaciones y comunidades de 21 países del mundo ante la preocupación general causada por los planes de construcción de represas con diferentes fines en diferentes regiones.

Mount Tamalpais Declaration

San Francisco, May 2000

The WTO and the future of forests - WRM Statement to the WTO Ministerial Conference

Seattle, November 30 - December 3, 1999 The WTO and the future of forests

An emergency call to action for the forests, their peoples and life on earth. The Penang Declaration: 10 years later

An emergency call to action for the forests, their peoples and life on earth

WRM statement to the Fourth Conference of the Parties of the Climate Change Convention

Buenos Aires, November 1998 Declaration

The Montevideo Declaration. A call for action to defend forests and people against large-scale tree monocrops

Montevideo, June 1998 A call for action to defend forests and people against  large-scale tree monocrops