“I am in pain 24 hours a day”, Mamadou* told a Human Rights Watch researcher. “The pain I have all over my body…it is in my bones.” Mamadou, a 47-year-old man from rural Senegal, has advanced prostate cancer that has spread throughout his body. He can no longer be cured, but with morphine, a strong [...]
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Syrian refugees straining health services in region, UN warns in new report
The refugee crisis sparked by the conflict in Syria is increasingly straining health services in surrounding countries, while refugees are finding it harder to access the quality treatment they need. In a recently published report covering the first three months of 2013 in Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon, evidence suggests that more than 1 million refugees [...]
UK and US Governments Turn Blind Eye to Forced Evictions in Ethiopia
Aid agencies warn that a new dam project, and land confiscations for plantations, point toward a social and ecological ‘catastrophe’ in the Ethiopian Lower Omo Valley. Over half a million tribal people in both Ethiopia and Kenya face the total destruction of their way of life as a result of large scale infrastructure and agriculture projects. A [...]
New No-Electricity Incubator Saves Mbale’s Newborns
When electricity supplies are temperamental or when equipment is scarce, low-cost infant incubation units prove vital in keeping premature babies alive. Baby Sylvia weighed only 1.5 kg when born at the Mbale Regional Referral Hospital in eastern Uganda. Born early, and without the necessary body fat to keep her warm, her temperature soon dropped. She desperately [...]
Auction of Native American sacred objects goes ahead, despite legal challenge
A last minute appeal against the sale was rejected by a judge in Paris yesterday, resulting in an indiscriminate dispersal of ancient spiritual artefacts originating from Arizona’s Hopi tribe. The auction house Neret-Minet Tessier & Sarrou yesterday went ahead with the sale of a collection of sacred items, having repeatedly turned down requests by the [...]
Enough is Enough: Clean up your mess, Shell!
The activity of oil giant Shell in the Niger Delta recently came under international scrutiny as damages were awarded to a local farmer after an oil spill cover-up. Fairplanet demands action on the company’s legal obligation to duty of care. Dear Shell, We are aware of the fact that you, like most other major multinationals, [...]
HOPES OF PEACE BUILT ON SAND: solid infrastructure development essential to Sudan’s future
Darfur desperately needs help, but not just to repair damage from the horrific 2003 conflict that killed 300,000, destroyed hundreds of villages, and drove 2 million people to refugee camps. Instead Darfur must also overcome the marginalisation and underdevelopment that fueled the conflict in the first place. This weekend, delegates from donor countries and financial [...]
South Sudan must do more to protect civilians in Jonglei, UN says
The Government of South Sudan must do more to protect communities at risk of attacks, and bring the guilty to justice, says the UN peacekeeping mission in the country as it releases its findings from an investigation into the killing of at least 85 cattle herders in Jonglei state. “It is of the utmost importance [...]
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Israel secretly repatriated 1,000 to Sudan, without informing UN
‘The Haaretz’ reported on Feb 26, 2013: Though Israel claims the people’s return was voluntary, this claim was rejected by UNHCR, which says there is no ‘free will from inside a prison.’ Israel has “voluntarily” returned at least 1,000 people to Sudan, an enemy country that has vowed to punish any of its citizens who [...]
„The Law In These Parts“ – Ein Film über Unrecht in einem Rechtsstaat
Kann eine moderne Demokratie einem anderen Volk eine langjährige Besatzung aufzwingen und gleichzeitig seine demokratischen Werte bewahren? Im Jahr 1967 eroberte Israels Armee den Gazastreifen und das Westjordanland. Seitdem hat das Militär tausende Anweisungen und Gesetze erlassen, die nur in diesen Gebieten Gültigkeit besitzen. Es wurden Militärgerichte einberufen, die hunderttausende Palästinenser verurteilten und einer halben [...]
