Australia is still stealing Aboriginal children from their families, reports John Pilger. The 'lost generation' policies were meant to have ended in 1969, but a new wave of child thefts is under way - 2013 figures show that 13,914 Aboriginal children were in 'out of home care'.
… again, Australia is stealing Its indigenous children John Pilger | 6th April 2014 News … Politics Indigenous Peoples aboriginal-children.png Australia is still stealing Aboriginal children from their families, reports John …
I am pro-vaccine, writes Robert F. Kennedy Jr. I had all of my six children vaccinated. I believe that vaccines save millions of lives. So let me explain why I edited the book 'Thimerosal: Let The Science Speak', which exposes the dangerous and avoidable use of the mercury-based preservative thimerosal in vaccines given to millions of children and pregnant women here and around the world.
… Robert F. Kennedy Jr. I had all of my six children vaccinated. I believe that vaccines … thimerosal in vaccines given to millions of children and pregnant women here and around … vaccines when I was a boy in 1954. Today's children cannot school without at least 56 …
Can families play a frontline role in the fight against climate change? The Ecologist meets the parent-child activists who believe they can
… Activist families: the parents and children protesting against climate change … right. It’s a parental responsibility to help children understand the world they’re growing … which campaign comrades and even their children use when police or potential …
Radical action on climate change should be the many versus the few, not the young versus the old.
… Climate, class, and revolting children Chris Saltmarsh | 30th January 2019 News Climate Change Students Children Protest students-school-in-t.jpg … leaders telling them, “ you say you love your children above all else , and yet you are …
The Green Party manifesto, published today, pledges to enact long overdue restrictions on the use of toxic pesticides to protect rural residents and children from adverse health impacts, writes Georgina Downs. Now all political parties must follow where the Greens have led.
… pesticides to protect rural residents and children from adverse health impacts, writes … in the locality of homes, schools and children's playgrounds." Rural residents all … the approval of any pesticide for babies and children that live in the crop-sprayed areas, …
The Flint water crisis exposes like nothing else the toxic cynicism of America's ruling class, writes Jesse Jackson. In their privileged view, the victims of the lead poisoning are disposable 'unpersons' that matter less than General Motors' auto parts. But now they, and their peers in other poisoned communities, are fighting back.
… back. The basic story of the poisoning of the children of Flint, Michigan, through the water … them the water was safe. All of Flint's children were exposed to water with elevated … of Flint that the water was safe for their children to drink. Privileged corporations, …
The Chancellor's 'sport not sugar' move to tax sugary drinks was extremely welcome, writes Simon Bullock. But we need a similar Treasury approach to protect people from other threats too. So how about tackling the air pollution that's killing tens of thousands of Britons a year?
… to improve the lives of people, particularly children. He faced down relentless lobbying … which is why organisations like the Children's Society were so scathing of the … every city. Many parents will not allow their children to cycle to school, because of the …
The US Constitution guarantees the rights of future generations, not just current ones, writes James E. Hansen. But those rights are being betrayed, knowingly and deliberately, by governments and politicians who are standing by and allowing climate change to wreak long term havoc on the planet. Today, this legal principle is being asserted in a Federal Court in Oregon.
… Federal Court must uphold our children's right to a viable future James E. … out fossil fuel emissions will consign our children and our Posterity to a diminishing … costs now imposed on our health and our children's future are accounted for in energy …
If it wasn't climate change, was the real purpose of the Number 10 meeting of Theresa May's advisors and President Trump's environmental transition supremo Myron Ebell to plan the post-Brexit deregulation of UK farming, including pesticides? That's how it looks, writes Georgina Downs - and we had better begin now to fight for our health, wildlife and environment.
… toxic crop sprays near their homes, schools, children's playgrounds will be extremely … in the locality of residents homes, schools, children's playgrounds, nurseries etc. and … been any evidence of safety for residents, or children attending schools and playgrounds …
After decades of occupation and dispossession, a culture of sometimes violent resistance has taken root in Issawiya. But it is never fetishized, writes Sam Gilbert - resistance is recognized as the only alternative to slavery, and the only means by which the people will ever achieve the freedom they thirst for.
… of their two young daughters. "Where are my children going to live?" Murad asked. "We … facilities forces about 70% of the children to venture outside the village to … was very hard for the people, especially the children. My older daughter never wet her bed, …
The growth of food banks reflects a simple truth: the government does not care about hungry families, writes Rupert Read. To tackle hunger, work must pay a living wage, social security must do its job, and communities must rebuild local food networks.
… by its capping, 104,000 have three or more children to support. Benefits sanctions have … skip meals to provide food for their children. Shockingly, the number of people in … to protect the poor, and especially children in poor families who are often the …
Today is Nakba day - when Palestinians everywhere remember in their native land, stolen homes, demolished villages and long-lost way of life with grief, anger and a deep yearning that endures from generation to generation, writes Johnny Barber.
… the dead are drowned out by the laughter of children playing on the remains of ancient … live in the rubble of their destroyed homes. Children freeze to death during the winter. … alleyways and streets, the only space where children can play. The UN itself estimates …
'We're here because our parents' generation has failed us and it's up to young people to stop climate change by whatever peaceful means we have left.'
… Youth Youth Activism Protests Generations Children Protest Children Climate Change Society … what the world would look like for their children, much of that’s changed; altruism has …
American NGO advocating for young people's future environmental rights has won a first key legal battle in its fight to force the United States to avoid dangerous climate change by cutting its greenhouse gas emissions, writes Sophie Marjanac. If upheld on appeal in higher courts, the ruling has huge implications for us all.
… v United States and is available here . The children and teenagers, aged between eight and … and federal governments by the NGO ' Our Children's Trust ' based partially on the … to dismiss the suit, claiming that the children lacked standing, raised …
Robin Maynard tells the Ecologist why he is trying to encourage environmental NGOs to have the courage to move beyond a politically correct stance on issues of population growth and really engage with the big questions......
… to determine when, whether, and how many children to have set at the level of the … as 14 to be married and expected to bear children. At such a young age, complications … to available healthcare, but women have fewer children later, through access to family …
Detroit is the site of a neoliberal experiment that's already being repeated elsewhere, writes Chris Grove, with unpayable debt used to force the privatization of public services and the terminate democratic power and accountability. But as the city's poor find themselves cur off from water, a new, wider conception of human rights is emerging from the wreckage.
… at any time without due notice ... and that children may be taken by child protection … without water are deemed uninhabitable for children." Despite their critique and … water hoses from home-to-home, protecting children from unjust removal, working with …
Cancer is just one of of the outcomes of the genetic damage inflicted by nuclear radiation, writes Chris Busby, and perhaps one of the least important. Of far greater long term significance is the broad-scale mutation of the human genome, and those of other species, and the resulting genomic instability that causes cascades of heritable mutations through the generations.
… and numerous other health effects in the children of populations who were exposed to … a 9-fold excess of congenital disease in the children but also, and unexpectedly, an eight-fold excess in the grandchildren. This raises a new and frightening …
Detroit is shutting off water to 40% of residents to prepare the water system for a corporate buyout, writes Justin Wedes. Residents are organizing to resist the water shuttoffs, anti-democratic rule and the demands of Wall Street - but they need our help!
… the wall of the riverwalk downtown, and young children play in the fountains that shoot up … outrage at seeing a pregnant mother and young children denied the basic human right to water … You must be joking Today, 60% of Detroit children live in poverty and the infant …
To save a small amount of money residents of Flint, Michigan, have been forced to consume hazardous levels of lead in their drinking water, writes Farron Cousins. Just the moment for the Republican House Speaker to attack the Clean Water Act.
… was happening to Flint residents and their children. The entire problem could have been … the residents of Flint - especially young children exposed to high amounts of lead - for … from Flint, put it : "To poison all the children in an historic American city is no …
Frack Free Greater Manchester campaigners joined human rights defenders from as far as Argentina and Colombia in May to protest outside British Petroleum (BP)’s first ever shareholder meeting in Manchester, UK. HELENA COATES - a local resident - environmental campaigner and mum of two, explains why she took part
… I started thinking more about the world our children will grow up in, the world they’ll … and food sources have been polluted, whose children are already dying. For me, now, being … a mother is about doing my part to leave my children a better world. I imagine the same is …
A global, independent youth movement is gaining momentum - with a UK strike planned for February.
… Change | 31st January 2019 News School Children Education Protest Greta Thunberg … In November 2018, thousands of Australian children struck school in defiance of the …
A future Labour government will ban all fracking in the UK and drive forward a clean, affordable energy revolution, Barry Gardiner promised in his conference speech today. And it will openly negotiate 'Just Trade' agreements that respect the environment, health and labour, boosting small business not just multinational corporations.
… is this? Every law made to improve your children's environment or extend our workplace … in Dickens' Day we might still be sending children up chimneys! It's time to wake up to … clean air and a healthy secure future for our children. Britain is at the beginning of an …
Protests against plans to make an enormous storage site for fracked gas at Seneca Lake in New York state seven times bigger are gathering pace, writes Ashoka Jegroo, with 13 arrests at a gate blockade last week. But is the company, Crestwood, getting the message?
… risk. We want to come back and possibly raise children here someday. We don't want methane, … August 26 blockade, said in a statement . "Children who live in Schuyler County are the … arrest to protest the debacle of endangering children and the ruin of Seneca Lake that …
In the fight for a better, cleaner, more just and sustainable world, it's not enough just to oppose all all the 'bads' that crowd in from all sides, writes Mike Childs. We also have to build our own vision of the future, and map out the changes we must make to get there. And that's what Friends of the Earth is setting out to do in its transformational 'Big Ideas Change the World' project.
… want to protect the developing lungs of children from harmful air pollution . But we … of us who want a brighter future for our children - fight to give them a chance to … and empowering women to choose to have fewer children . The idea that we are in control is …