Climate change: A gross violation of human rights
What is elegantly termed as “climate change” is in reality one of the most gross violations of human rights ever committed in history. It is a crime to Humanity as (Read More)
CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN RIGHTS
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Colombia: oil-palm plantations, violation of human rights and Afro-descendent communities’ quest for true dignity
Colombia: oil-palm plantations, violation of human rights and Afro-descendent communities’ quest for true dignity When you talk about the violation of human rights, you must talk about Colombia. When you (Read More)
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Congo: Tar sands and palm oil projects threaten local communities and undermine efforts to tackle climate change
The Italian oil company Eni is one of the top ten energy companies in the world and now the biggest in Africa. The company is also currently ranked as the (Read More)
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Food Sovereignty: A positive approach to climate change
Food Sovereignty: A positive approach to climate change While the planet is already suffering the effects of climate change, civil society groups try to raise the alarm on the fact (Read More)
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Indonesia: Plantations, human rights and REDD
Before the plantations came, villagers in Teluk Kabung in Riau province in Sumatra, grew coconuts. A few years ago, thousands of hectares of forest surrounding the village were clearcut and (Read More)
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Kenya: Ogiek’s rights violated by climate change and by measures to stop it
The Mau Complex – the largest forest of Kenya – has been the ancestral home of the Ogiek Community. Although extremely important in terms of water catchment, micro-climate regulation and (Read More)
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Hydropower on the Mekong: Where dams may block the future of millions
Hydropower is often portrayed as “clean” or “green” energy and as part of the solution for preventing fossil fuel-related climate change. However, government-sponsored and corporate-promoted hydropower implies building huge dams (Read More)
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Mexico: Opposition to Blackfire mining operations ends in murder
A full 41% of the Sierra Madre region in the Mexican state of Chiapas – 227,000 square kilometres of land, equivalent to one half of the whole of Central America (Read More)
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Nigeria: Oil-in-soil and much more
In November 2009, 117 Nigerian organisations signed on to a statement to the government with a challenging message: leave oil in the ground. They expressed they were “united in our (Read More)
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Paraguay: Deforestation violates human rights of indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation
The situation of the Ayoreo people of the Chaco region of Paraguay serves as an excellent illustration of the fact that forest conservation is a human rights issue. It also (Read More)
PEPPER SPRAYING DEMOCRACY IN COPENHAGEN
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Human rights violated by climate change … and by the UN Climate Change Convention in Copenhagen!
The UN Climate Change Convention in Copenhagen presents itself to the world as if it were truly tackling the major global crisis of climate change, with thousands of government delegates (Read More)