Decades violent expulsions, race laws and denial of citizenship lie at the root of the 'boat people' crisis in Thailand and Malaysia, writes Oliver Tickell. Attacks on the Rohingya minority have escalated since a new policy was announced in 2014 to permanently deny their rights.
… , according to HRW. An exodus of small boats Starting in 2005, small boats carrying Rohingya and Bangledeshi … smuggling routes into Malaysia. The number of boats arriving gradually grew, prompting the …
The US authorities have allowed Formosa Plastics and other chemicals corporations to poison the waterways of the Texas Gulf Coast for decades. When local shrimp-boat operator Diane Wilson found out what was going on she single-handedly set about forcing Formosa to clean up its act.
… Wilson | 1st October 2004 News EPA Shrimp Boats Fisherman Industrial Pollution Plastic … all they wanted to do was escape on their boats. I went out and formed an environmental … There was a shooting, and then houses burned, boats burned. Then the Ku Klux Klan tried to …
The Maldives, a vast republic of scattered islands in the Indian Ocean, has worked hard to make its fisheries among the world's most sustainable, writes Tony Juniper. But now the EU has slapped a 20% levy on its fish exports due to human rights concerns - a move that mainly hits poor fisherfolk innocent of any wrongdoing.
… also made it mandatory for all fishing boats to be equipped with vessel locating … EU subsidises fuel for its own fishing boats in the Indian Ocean For example, …
Some 245 Indian villages are in the middle of being destroyed by a $7 billion dam project that will consume more energy than it provides and has even been condemned by its World Bank sponsors.
Submerging Freedom Keith Hyams | 1st March 2004 News Dam Narmada Domkhedi Maharashtra Reservoir Community Dams Community Human Rights International Development Energy Society FREEDAM_MAR04_MAIN.jpg …
The more EU politicians try to look in control of the Mediterranean refugee emergency, the more it's obvious they aren't, writes Assaad W. Razzouk. A key driver of the crisis is climate change, which is causing drought across North Africa. Europe must now tackle the root causes of the crisis, and admit its own culpability in precipitating it.
… from Africa to Europe via Mediterranean boats: the striking climate disaster unfolding …
Being off the beaten track need not require lashings of fossil fuels to provide a comfortable lifestyle. James Morrison tells the remarkable story of the inhabitants of Scotland's Knoydart Peninsula
Learning from remote, sustainable communities James Morrison | 22nd December 2009 News Society Community Sustainability Self-sufficiency inverie-knoydart-small.jpg Inverie, the 'capital' of the …
Fresh, locally sourced produce, real ale and cosy fireplaces: the Great British country pub is one foodie tradition that’s not going anywhere. Rachael Stubbins rounds up five of the best
Five of the best… country pubs Rachael Stubbins | 23rd April 2012 Ethical Living Country Pubs Local Sustainable Ales Food And Drink Country Menus Sourced Traditional Community holding.jpg Fresh, …
Sue Lloyd Roberts, the brilliant investigative journalist who died yesterday, was a unique phenomenon in the BBC, writes Oliver Tickell - fearless, rooting out the dirtiest of secrets, fighting the cause of the oppressed, abused, exploited and downtrodden. Now the BBC must keep her mission alive with a new, independent unit dedicated to human rights worldwide.
Sue Lloyd Roberts - the BBC must make sure her work continues Oliver Tickell | 14th October 2015 Comment Media Human Rights Water Indigenous Peoples Forests Malaysia sue-lloyd-roberts-cut.jpg Sue …
Ka Hsaw Wa has seen many of his friends killed and has suffered torture at the hands of the Burmese military. Now he is taking Unocal, one of the US companies that trades with the murderous regime, to court. One of the most wanted men in Burma, talks to The Ecologist.
Tortured Soul Jeremy Smith | 8th July 2004 News Military Burma Unocal ATCA Pipeline Slaves L Oil Boycotts US Human Rights Military Politics And Economics Society Ka Hsaw Wa has seen many of his …
Are SUVs a crime against civilisation, or paragons of efficiency? Are they ugly, arrogant and antisocial, or bright, beautiful and mobile? And do the polar passions they arouse pit the politics of envy against the Americanisation of British culture? Paul Kingsnorth and Michael Harvey discuss
Debate: Sports Utility Vehicles (4x4s) Michael Harvey Paul Kingsnorth | 21st May 2005 Comment 4x4s SUVs Transport Cars Petrol Road Oil Incineration Landfills Community Climate Change Interview_15.jpg …
Slavery is a terrible thing for the world's estimated 36 million slaves, writes Kevin Bales. But it's also an environmental disaster. Many slaves are forced to work in destructive activities like clearing forests for mines, farms and plantations - making slave labour the world's third biggest 'country' in terms of CO2 emissions. It really is time to end slavery!
World must end slavery - for the environment as well as human rights Kevin Bales University of Hull | 18th May 2016 Comment Human Rights Forests Farming Consumerism The Land Climate Change Emissions …
Six journalists are taking the UK Government to court after discovering that they are listed on its 'domestic extremism' database just for reporting on protests, or undertaking inconvenient investigations into state or corporate misconduct. Adrian Arbib is one of them ...
Journalists doing their job are not 'domestic extremists' Adrian Arbib | 22nd November 2014 Activism UK Human Rights Media injunction-served.jpg Six journalists are taking the UK Government to court …
From theory to practice, how one man in Totnes is helping a community respond to the threat of peak oil – from its own currency to relearning lost arts. Ed Hamer reports
CASE STUDY: creating Transition Towns Ed Hamer | 27th November 2007 Activism Case Study Climate Change And Energy Lets Housing Totnes Peak Oil Community Archive_261.jpg From theory to practice, how …
This World Fisheries Day, a new report shows how the 'rights-based approach' to fisheries governance is in fact a mechanism for depriving indigenous and subsistence fisherfolk of their traditional waters, write Astrid Alexandersen, Sif Juhl & Jonathan Munk Nielsen, and transferring them to corporations and economic elites. It must be replaced with a 'human rights approach'.
… fishers under the assumption that 'too many boats are chasing too few fish', leading to …
On World Day of Indigenous Resistance, Wayúu woman ANGELICA ORITZ shares her experience as a human rights defender, living and fighting for the future of her community in the shadow of the largest opencast mine in Colombia
Indigenous resistance: my fight for land and life in Colombia Angelica Ortiz | 12th October 2017 Comment Mining Indigenous Colombia Human Rights BHP Resistance 405573.jpg On World Day of Indigenous …
Npower, owner of the UK's third largest coal-fired power station, says it will have to black out two million customers if it can't fill this lake with poisonous ash. Paul Kingsnorth investigates
Still Waters Run Deep Paul Kingsnorth | 1st November 2006 News Pollution Npower PFA Campaigns Industrial Community Climate Change Energy STILLWATERS_NOV06_MAIN.jpg Npower, owner of the UK's third …
Brazil's new neoliberal government is intent on building a massive new dam deep in the Amazon rainforest on the on the Tapajós river, writes Helle Abelvik-Lawson, obliterating the indigenous territory of the Munduruku people in defiance of their constitutional rights.
… the area last year. "They are sending out boats every day collect dead fish. One …
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.
… now lives in squalor on dilapidated house boats that dot the banks of the river …
The random, murderous violence we just saw inflicted on the people of Brussels is absolutely, categorically unacceptable, writes Chris Floyd. So too is the far greater violence routinely inflicted by rich, powerful countries against their innocent victims around the world, and especially in the oil-rich Middle East. To move away from a world of terror, we must make our outrage, and our compassion, inclusive.
… militarized hyper-capitalism is 'lifting all boats' when even those who once benefitted …
Lettuces, peppers and other vegetables grown under 'semi-slavery' conditions in Spain are filling supermarket shelves in the UK, writes Almudena Serpis. Workers are routinely abused, underpaid, sprayed with pesticide, and sacked if they dare complain, an C4News / Ecologist investigation has found. But now they are getting organised to defend their rights.
Salad days? Semi-slavery on the 'sweating fields' of southern Spain Almudena Serpis EFU | 16th April 2015 News Food Farming Society Spain UK Human Rights sprayed-pesticide-1.jpg Lettuces, peppers and …
Churches turned into pubs. Brooding Victorian warehouses replaced with sparkly identikit apartments. Family shops and independent cafes bankrupted by Starbucks, Tesco’s et al. When will we wake up to this grim, placeless reality?
… and dozens of scruffy residential narrowboats are lined up bow to stern along the … once was a line of moored residential narrowboats is now a line of worried boaters, … repair and maintenance services for canal boats, and wants to sell the site for – yes, …
In the age of high-speed travel, walking - alone or in groups - is the foremost way to reconnect to cities, our environment and one another
Will modern-day flaneurs help rebuild fragmented communities? Nika Stella-Sawicka | 1st September 2009 Ethical Living Green Living Out And About Urban Architecture Community Will Self …
Since defeating the government in 1984 over its compulsory warble fly erradication scheme, Mark Purdey has been travelling the world to find the real cause of BSE and vCJD. His conclusions are controversial, fascinating, and if proved right, will cost the government millions in compensation.
Dying to know the truth Mark Purdey | 1st November 2002 News BSE VCJD Groote Eylandt Australia Groote Syndr Comment And Analysis Human Rights Aviation Food And Farming Health Science And Technology …