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Conservative MP 'promoted cotton trade linked to child labour'
Lucy Dunne
2nd January, 2013
A Tory MP has been accused of drumming up support for the controversial Uzbekistan cotton trade campaigners claim is linked to child labour. Lucy Dunne reports more...
The Smell of Freedom: Lush gets behind the Free West Papua campaign
Ruth Styles
11th October, 2011
West Papua is one of the world’s forgotten conflicts, where human rights violations are endemic. Now Lush has taken up the cause. Ruth Styles has more more...
Spices: the true cost of a kitchen staple
Jeff Holman
24th May, 2011
From habitat loss to human rights abuses; as Jeff Holman discovered, your pepper, saffron and turmeric aren’t quite as innocent as they seem more...
Human Rights Watch film festival: young film-makers tackle eco-issues
Matilda Lee
30th March, 2011
From the next Erin Brokovitch, to a group of teens cleaning up Kenya's Kibera slum, a clutch of innovative youth film-makers are documenting crucial issues and demanding social and environmental justice more...
How secretive government agency funded BP pipeline blighted by human rights allegations
Sarah Bentley
15th March, 2011
The Export Credit Guarantee Department is accused of underwriting unethical and carbon-intensive business deals in developing countries and operating with a lack of transparency - charges it denies. more...
Using the law to protect the environment
Andrew Wasley
19th June, 2009
Investigation into the dangers faced by lawyers who champion human rights and environmental justice. more...
The struggle to report on Tibet's environment
Andrew Wasley
1st May, 2009
Reporting from the frontline of environmental activism, Andrew Wasley takes a closer look at the environmental situation in Tibet. more...
'Pollution-as-usual' for Shell, new report reveals
Ecologist
29th June, 2009
A new report reveals Shell's expanding investment in the most polluting fuels, attempts to scupper plans to act on climate change and the complicity of top executives in continued gas flaring in Nigeria more...
Shell pays up in New York, but continues to flare gas
Andy Rowell
23rd June, 2009
Shell's $15.5 million settlement provides hard cash to to the Ogoni region of the Niger Delta but while activists claim 'victory' they vow to fight on to end toxic gas flares more...
Fire resistant: 'Why I went to jail to protect my daughter from toxic polluters'
Terri Swearingen
1st December, 2004
How far would you go to fight plans for a new waste incinerator? One woman went all the way... more...
Al Jazeera Film: People & Power - Dumping Ground
Ecologist
20th May, 2009
Al Jazeera's five-part series, 'Corporations on Trial' looks at some of the rapidly growing law suits across the world today. more...
What would a sustainable welfare system look like? A New Economics Foundation report reveals all…
News
15th April, 2009
A report by the NEF details what a reformed welfare state would look like. more...
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The G20 marches - a pointless protest against everything, or the dawn of a new collective action?
Sylvia Rowley and Rachel Rickard Straus
2nd April, 2009
Protests. A political free-for-all or a new collective activism around social and environmental problems? Sylvia Rowley and Rachel Straus find out. more...
Indonesia wages war against tribe
Paul Kingsnorth
29th January, 2009
Armed and financed by Western corporations, Indonesia is waging a brutal war against a tribal people with little more than bows and arrows to defend itself. more...
Help fashion go organic
Ecologist magazine
1st January, 2009
The fashion industry listens to shoppers, even if governments don't. Use your power as a consumer to make safer, organic cotton more widely available:more...
'This is big'
Joss Garman
1st November, 2008
‘Britain’s astounding retreat from reason is now legitimising anarchy.’ That was the conclusion of the hotblooded screaming radical Melanie Phillips, writing for The Spectator. more...
Between a rock and a hard place
Phil Moore
1st August, 2008
The battle between mining giant Vedanta and the threatened tribal Dongria Kondh of Orissa, eastern India continues. more...
The Unwinking Gaze
Laura Sevier
1st July, 2008
Although the Dalai Lama says he is 80 per cent monk and 20 per cent politician, the focus of this documentary is largely political. more...
The eco-shoes with soles of coconut
Laura Sevier
1st June, 2008
What do you get if you cross a shoe with a coconut? A bounty for the feet. Laura Sevier meets Sven Segal, eco shoe designer and founder of the Po-Zu range, who has found a novel use for waste coconut husks. . .more...
Hell for leather
Jim Wickens
1st June, 2008
Must-have handbags? shoes to die for? From cheap trinkets to luxury car interiors, Jim Wickens discovers the startling facts behind what we buy into when we buy leather goods.more...
In a climate of political chaos Zimbabwe's wildlife is being exterminated
Robin Hammond
1st June, 2008
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Trade in precious minerals and timber continues to fuel violence and conflict across the globe
Ecologist
1st June, 2008
Revenues obtained from the often illegal extraction and supply of commodities such as timber and diamonds are directly bankrolling corrupt regimes and armed insurgency groups, and fund the purchase of weapons and other contraband goods that perpetuate cycles of conflict.more...
The problem of greenwash - green-fiddling while Rome burns…
Pat Thomas
1st June, 2008
It’s fair to say that we have our share of robust discussions in this office. Opinions get aired, fingers get pointed, occasionally voices get raised. It’s all in a good cause. Setting the world to rights isn’t always a civilised tea party. more...
A climate of inequity
Mara Hvistendahl
11th October, 2007
While governments argue over responsibility for global warming, development experts are thinking about the humanitarian consequences for the world’s poor. Mara Hvistendahl reports from the United Nations. more...Fortis bank shirks responsibility for toxic mud-flow
News
21st June, 2007
A major investor in a gas exploration project which has set off a toxic mud-flow has washed its hands of responsibility for the damage caused to homes of thousands of Indonesian people. more...Members
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