Global – Around the world, Greenpeace representatives have visited South Korean embassies calling for the release of five Greenpeace International activists who conducted a peaceful protest against plastic production and pollution during the INC-5 Global Plastics Treaty negotiations in Busan in December 2024, and who have since been unable to leave the country.
Greenpeace visited the Korean Mission in Taipei, seeking a meeting with Representative Lee Eun-go to deliver a petition, urging the Korean government to immediately release the detained activists. In December last year, during the fifth round of negotiations for the UN Global Plastics Treaty held in Busan, South Korea, four international Greenpeace activists — including Ash from Taiwan — carried out a peaceful protest against plastic overproduction, calling on governments to confront the issue head-on. Following the action, the four activists, along with the captain of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior, Hettie, were arrested and placed under travel restrictions. Since then, they have spent Christmas, New Year, and even the Lunar New Year unable to return home.
Greenpeace UK activists paint a large mural outside the South Korean embassy in London depicting fellow activists who have been banned from leaving Korea since taking part in a peaceful protest against plastic pollution on a tanker last November. Their trial is due to begin on 16 May in Seoul. The mural is painted on boards erected facing the embassy, and depicts the action which took place in Daesan, South Korea, in November, and the four Greenpeace International activists, plus the captain of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior at that time, who are all currently prevented from leaving Korea while awaiting their trial. © Elizabeth Dalziel / Greenpeace
🇨🇦 Canada – Ahead of a federal election, Greenpeace Canada activists projected powerful messages on the world famous Niagara Falls, including “Don’t Trump Canada”, “Elbows up” and “RESIST”.
Greenpeace Canada is calling out politicians like Trump and Poilievre for spreading fear and division, while polluting industries like oil and gas seek to take advantage of a crisis they helped create. Greenpeace Canada is asking Poilievre and all political parties to protect people and the environment, not polluters and billionaires.
🇧🇷 Brazil – Indigenous people from the Munduruku and Guarani Kaiowá people were received by Minister Gilmar Mendes at the Federal Supreme Court (STF). During the meeting, they challenged the decisions that have been made by the Conciliation Board, created by the Court to debate the application of Law No. 14,701/2023, popularly known as the Temporal Framework Law, and asked that their rights be respected throughout the mediation and judgment process.
This meeting was an important victory for the Munduruku people after the mobilization that blocked the BR-230 highway in Itaituba, in the southwest of Pará, for two weeks.
🇫🇷 France – Greenpeace France volunteers demonstrated on April 12, 2025, for democracy and the “rule of law” in response to the far-right « Rassemblement National » party’s comments against the “tyranny of judges” following the conviction of Marine Le Pen (president of the Rassemblement National group in the National Assembly) for embezzlement of public funds.
🇨🇿 Czech Republic – Greenpeace Czech Republic installed a giant clock made from 750 used PET bottles – some of which the volunteers collected as waste in nature – near the Parliament building in Prague to remind the politicians they promised to introduce a deposit system for PET bottles and aluminum cans but so far they haven’t. And that they are running out of time because the elections are closing in.
🇧🇷 Brazil – Indigenous people from the Munduruku and Guarani Kaiowá people were received by Minister Gilmar Mendes at the Federal Supreme Court (STF) in Brasilia, to debate the application of the Temporal Framework Law, and to ask that their rights be respected throughout the mediation and judgment process.
🇦🇺 Australia – Greenpeace Australia Pacific Activists stage a ‘hazard clean-up’ activity outside the Liberal Party’s Federal Election launch in Sydney. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton plans to build 7 nuclear reactors in Australia, prolonging our use of coal and gas while endangering workers and community to the risk of contamination and accident with radioactive waste.
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