Environmental Justice Foundation

London

United Kingdom

Profile Information:

Profession / role:
Protecting People and Planet
Company / organisation:
Environmental Justice Foundation
Website (if you have one):
www.ejfoundation.org
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Individuals involved or interested in improving conditions in cotton farming for the fashion industry. Individuals involved in the fashion industry in India.
About me / About business or organisation:
EJF makes a direct link between the need for environmental security and the defence of basic human rights.

EJF provides film and advocacy training to individuals and grassroots organisations in the global south, enabling them to document, expose and create long term solutions to environmental abuses.

EJF campaigns internationally to raise awareness of the issues our grassroots partners are working to solve locally.

Today EJF has a team of campaigners and film-makers based in London, and works internationally with partners in Brazil, Vietnam, Mali, Sierra Leone, Uzbekistan, Mauritius and Indonesia.
Career history / Company history:
EJF was established in 2000, and became a UK-registered charity in 2001. The founding directors Steve Trent and Juliette Williams, together have over 30 years experience investigating, exposing and resolving environmental abuses and have together worked in over 40 countries around the globe. EJF was established to ensure that these skills and know-how can be passed on to tomorrows environmental and human rights defenders.

Since 2000, EJF has trained defenders in the Global South, and campaigned to raise awareness of their issues here in the West.

Over the past 7 years we have actively partnered grassroots environmental and human rights defenders and undertaken investigations in 15 countries, from Guatemala to Cambodia, Uzbekistan to Guinea.

We have produced 17 campaign reports and 6 films, including ‘White Gold’, the award-winning film on Uzbekistan’s cotton industry, as well as a series of training manuals for grassroots activists.

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