The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Shell Oil has agreed to pay reparations in the case in a New York court that implicated it in the 1995 execution of the Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. It is only by a mix of radical social pressure
Roger Moody is an expert on mining and mining transnationals. He has spent years uncovering the facts about how mining companies operate. He edits the Mines and Communities website, which exposes the social, economic and environmental impacts of mining, particularly as they affect indigenous and traditional communities.
Ecuador has based its economy on the extraction of natural resources. This process has arbitrarily used, abused and polluted the environment, and established an economic model characterised by external dependence, growth in internal and external debt, and the destruction of ecosystems. The recent introduction of the Ecuadorian Mining Law inaugurated …
The links between human rights and biodiversity and natural resource conservation are many and complex. The conservation community is being challenged to take stronger measures to respect human rights and is taking opportunities to further their realisation.
Alejandro Koehler is one of thousands of people throughout the country who have raised their voices against plans by energy companies, oftentimes foreign owned, to tap the electricity potential of Chile
For its stand against Salwa Judum in Chhattisgarh a non-profit in Chhattisgarh that has been vocal about human rights abuse by Salwa Judum became the target of the Dantewada district administration
On May 25, the Supreme Court freed Binayak Sen. The paediatrician and human rights activist was held prisoner by the Chhattisgarh government for two years for alleged Maoist links. Savvy Soumya Misra spoke to him on his future plans What is your priority now? In Chhattisgarh, violence is being answered …
Over the past few years, the West Bengal government and its law enforcement agencies used repression against the tribals in Lalgarh on the pretext of acting against the Maoists. This resulted in a genuine resistance movement since November 2008, which has reacted not only to state repression, but had also …
The political movement that came up from among the people of Lalgarh in November 2008 cried out for help and support from the civil and democratic society
UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday debated, in a full-session, on the impacts of climate change on full enjoyment of human rights, especially in vulnerable countries. The debate tabled by the Maldives, sought to portray climate change not solely as a scientific issue, but also as a matter of global …
AHMEDABAD: His RTI application was responsible for Gujarat government finally succumbing to the fact that there were farmers suicides in Gujarat and that they were happening in large numbers. For the first time, the state government admitted that they were because of crop failure, debt and family nourishment issues. Bharat …
Civil rights activist Binayak Sen completed two years in jail on May 14 as an undertrial on charges of assisting Naxals in Chhattisgarh. There were nationwide demonstrations on May 14, an editorial and at least two articles on Sen
Agitation for his release gathers steam ON MAY 4, the Supreme Court issued notice to the Chhattisgarh government seeking its response in two weeks to the petition of Binayak Sen, vice-president of the People
The global economic downturn has aggravated human rights violations and distracted attention from abuses, Amnesty International said on Thursday. The world faced a grave danger that "rising poverty and desperate economic and social conditions could lead to political instability and mass violence," the rights group's secretary-general, Irene Khan, wrote in …
