two loggers killed in Mashco Piro attack, government blamed
At least two loggers have been killed, one wounded, and two more reported missing, in an encounter with uncontacted Mashco Piro people in Peru’s Amazon – the same Indigenous tribe…
At least two loggers have been killed, one wounded, and two more reported missing, in an encounter with uncontacted Mashco Piro people in Peru’s Amazon – the same Indigenous tribe…
On the 30 August, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) announced that it had suspended the certification of a notorious logging company bulldozing rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon. It comes amid…
The state has served three new charges – including one under the Terrorism Act – to a Palestine Action activist simply for speaking out against Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.…
Bangladesh’s new authorities on Wednesday opened an investigation into hundreds of enforced disappearances by security forces during the rule of ousted premier Sheikh Hasina. This includes the notorious Rapid Action…
The perfect storm of fortress conservation, Western military aid, and rampant resource extractivism for rich nations is fomenting a cycle of human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo…
Police have ramped up the repression of environmental defenders fighting TotalEnergies’ climate-wrecking East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP). EACOP: police repression In just the first nine months of 2024, Ugandan…
According to Farage wing-man and Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice MP, the majority of the British public want to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Of course,…
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Israeli journalist Yehuda Schlesinger called for the institutionalised rape of Palestinian detainees on Israel’s Channel 12. He went unchallenged. “There are no innocent people” in Gaza Responding to a question…
Over 20 pro-Palestine organisations have condemned a “propagandistic, genocide-enabling” report by Human Rights Watch. Crucially, Palestinian civil society groups issued a scathing statement over the publication which “pays lip service”…
While the world focuses on the Middle East, war in Sudan between the army and rival paramilitaries has pushed the Zamzam camp near Darfur’s besieged city of El-Fasher into famine.…
Three key Amazonian Indigenous organisations have issued an unprecedented joint statement, accusing the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) of deliberately delaying a decision on whether to withdraw certification from a notorious…