The documented death toll in Syria reaches 92,000. [CNN] Boko Haram intensifies its attacks on the educational system in Nigeria by killing teachers and students. [Washington Post] Oil leaking from a damaged pipeline in Ecuador moves downstream towards the Brazilian Amazon. [BBC] China’s practice of allowing wealthy provinces to outsource emissions dooms its climate goals. [...]
Tag Archives: Brazil
Press Review: Protestors in Turkey, Libya and the ICC,Wind-Farm Protests in Australia
Excessive police force against peaceful protestors in Turkey leaves thousands injured and at least one dead. [Huffington Post] The International Criminal Court refuses Libya’s offer to try Saif al-Islam Gadhafi for crimes against humanity. [CNN] A survey of Bangladeshi garment factories reveals three-fifths to be vulnerable to collapse. [The Guardian] Researchers in Brazil find an [...]
Press Review: Afghan schoolgirls poisoned by gas & Genocide trial suspended in Guatemala
Brazilian authorities fail to protect one of the Amazon’s most endangered tribes after refusing to evict illegal loggers and settlers from tribal land. [BBC] The successful fight against polio stands as an example of the power of global initiatives. More than 10 million people are thought to have been benefitted from mass vaccination campaigns. [The [...]
Press Review: Factory farming in China & Illegal wildlife trafficking continues to rise
The thousands of pig carcasses floating in a Chinese river signal the growing demand for meat in China and the impact of factory farms on the environment. [The Guardian] The U.N. issues a warning on the growing illegal wildlife trade saying the widespread practice combined with loss of habitat is threatening the survival of great [...]
Press Review: Third Somali journalist killed & Brazilian police attack protestors
Rahma Abdulkadir, whose work focused on women’s rights in Somalia, has become the third Somali journalist to be killed in the country this year. [The Guardian] The candidate for the WTO director general post, Mari Pangestu, argues that although spikes in food prices have fallen, the World Trade Organization’s trade talks in Doha are essential [...]
Amazon Indians unite against Canadian oil giant
Amazon Indians from Peru and Brazil have joined together to stop a Canadian oil company destroying their land and threatening the lives of uncontacted tribes. Hundreds of Matsés Indians gathered on the border of Peru and Brazil on March 9th and called on their governments to stop the exploration, warning that the work will devastate their forest home.
Press Review: Bhutan goes organic & Drilling in Peru’s Manú National Park
Bhutan prepares to become the first country to transform 100% of its agriculture to organic methods. [The Guardian] After years of denial, evidence has surfaced that the big energy company Pluspetrol is planning to tap gas reserves in Peru’s Manú National Park. [The Guardian] Environmentalists call Brazil’s plans to fill the Amazon forest with 168 [...]
Press Review: Tree census begins in Brazil & Nigeria takes action against lead poisoning
The Brazilian government will begin a four-year tree census to access how conservation, deforestation, and climate change impact the Amazon forest. [The Guardian] Nigeria will finally take action on a lead poisoning outbreak that killed 400 children and has endangered thousands more. [Reuters] Household air pollution caused by cooking fires causes four million premature deaths [...]
Press Review: Failing relief efforts in Haiti & Predictions for Syria in 2013
Despite billions of dollars donated and huge relief efforts, reconstruction after the powerful earthquake that devastated Haiti three years ago has hardly begun. [The Guardian] Based on the daily deterioration of the Syria’s civil war, the U.N. envoy to Syria predicts 100,000 more deaths in 2013. [CNN] Assassinations of civilians in Nigeria are being carried [...]
Americas: Human rights defenders increasingly targeted and attacked
Human rights defenders across the Americas are facing escalating levels of intimidation, harassment and attacks at the hands of state security forces, paramilitary groups and organized crime, Amnesty International says in a new report. The report Transforming pain into hope: Human rights defenders in the Americas, is based on around 300 cases of intimidation, harassment, [...]
Naked truth of Earth’s most threatened tribe laid bare by worldwide demo
Survival International will hold a worldwide demonstration on December 10 to urge Brazil, on Human Rights Day, to save Earth’s most threatened tribe. A woman in Brazilian carnival costume will lead the protests by standing outside London’s Brazilian Embassy, carrying a clear message for the Latin American government. Her body will be painted with the [...]
US food giant accused over biofuel ‘tainted with Indian blood’
A US food giant has been implicated in a sugarcane scandal in Brazil that has kept an entire indigenous community off its land, polluted streams and inflicted illness and death on Guarani Indians. Headquartered in the US, global grain trader Bunge is deeply involved in Brazil’s burgeoning biofuels market, and sources sugarcane from farmers who have taken over [...]
