What with all of the cocktails, pick-up lines and seductive dancing, a nightclub might be low on the list of places associated with environmental sustainability. But what if with every two-step you took, you were helping to cut carbon emmissions? That was the goal for Temple Nightclub’s founder Paul Hemming. The San Francisco-based club opened [...]
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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 [...]
Stop the Frankenfish attack
The US is about to treat the world to the first genetically modified meat: a mutant salmon that could wipe out wild salmon populations and threaten human health – but we can stop it now before our plates are filled with suspicious Frankenfish. The new fake salmon grows twice as fast as real salmon, and not [...]
How many slaves work for you?
When Barack Obama was re-elected in November last year, human rights activists and nonprofit organisations also hoped for a turn in the Human Trafficking Policy of the United States. Obama had promised to increase the fight against human trafficking in his next presidential period. As a first step, nonprofit human rights organisations and the president [...]
End the War on Drugs!
In this Tuesday’s U.S. elections, three states – Colorado, Washington and Oregon – have voted on referenda to decriminalize marijuana. As Op-Ed contributor Ioan Grillo pointed out earlier this week, although any referendum that passes would face legal battles in court, both the federal government and the U.N. would be forced to address their utterly [...]
Hurricane Sandy and climate change
The hurricane that struck America’s east coast last week might have had a silver lining. One week before the presidential election, one of the two candidates may have used the tragedy as an opportunity to address an aggravating cause of storm: climate change. Although all of the world and half of the U.S. believes that [...]
USA: ‘Targeted killing’ policies violate the right to life
A series of speeches over the past two years by officials from the administration of President Barack Obama, and an article published in the New York Times on 29 May 2012, have revealed some details of the purported legal rationale for current policies and practices of the United States of America (USA) in the deliberate [...]
10th World Day against the Death Penalty
We look back: The last decade has seen a large increase in the number of countries that have officially abolished the death penalty or eliminated the use of the death penalty in practice: 141 countries are abolitionist in law or in practice; 97 countries have abolished the death penalty for all crimes; 36 countries have [...]
Tag des Flüchtlings: Was würdest du auf der Flucht mitnehmen?
Zum “Tag des Flüchtlings” präsentieren wir euch einen Wettbewerb von Amnesty International, um euch nochmals für die Flüchtlingsthematik zu sensibilisieren. Hierzu fragt Amnesty: Welche drei Gegenstände würdest du auf der Flucht noch schnell einpacken? Stell dir vor, du musst Deutschland dringend verlassen, weil plötzlich ein Bürgerkrieg ausgebrochen ist. Da du dich in einer verbotenen Partei, [...]
The US demands “flexible” climate change deal
Referring to the global climate agreement from Copenhagen, US Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern stated that China can’t be compared with Chad. But in 2009 the US itself and the BASIC-countries drafted an accord which contained the two degree target for all signers. The problem even then: a decreasing global temperature is not [...]
Europa soll seine Beteiligung an CIA-Programmen aufdecken
Die europäischen Regierungen müssen der Öffentlichkeit endlich reinen Wein einschenken über ihre Beteiligung an Folter und anderen Menschenrechtsverletzungen im Rahmen der CIA-Programme für außerordentliche Überstellungen und Geheimgefängnisse.
Haben oder nicht haben
Wer keine neuen Atomwaffenstaaten will, der muss dafür sorgen, dass die jetzigen Atomwaffenstaaten endlich mit der Abrüstung beginnen. Denn auf Dauer wird sich ein System Nuklearer Apartheid nicht aufrechterhalten lassen.
