Women-centred maternity care through midwifery is in danger of extinction, replaced by a medical model that treats birth as an illness. Birth is an act of love, not one of fear and loathing, so what are the consequences? Matilda Lee reports
… Lee reports ‘I never imagined it would be a torture chamber', Ina May Gaskin says. ‘The instruments of torture were both psychological and physical.' …
An illegal cross-border trade in endangered wild Asian elephants to serve Thailand's tourist industry is threatening the future of the species, an undercover investigation by the Ecologist Film Unit (EFU) has revealed
… Thailand The Ecologist | 23rd July 2012 Other tortured elephant.jpg An illegal cross-border … are tied up, confined, starved, beaten and tortured in order to 'break their spirits'. It …
An illegal cross-border trade in endangered wild Asian elephants to serve Thailand's tourist industry is threatening the future of the species, an undercover investigation by the Ecologist Film Unit (EFU) has revealed
… Ecologist Film Unit Undercover Natural World tortured elephant.jpg An illegal cross-border … are tied up, confined, starved, beaten and tortured in order to 'break their spirits'. It …
What’s it like to stop the talking and put your life on the line for what you believe in? Activist and reporter, Eric Moll, has joined the Tar Sands Blockaders who have been protesting over the laying of TransCanada’s XL Keystone pipeline in Texas since April. Here he reveals just how brutal the authorities are with the ‘hippies’ protesting over the corporation’s damage to the environment
… that my convictions might not withstand torture (or “pain-compliance,” as the police … Another blockader yells “how does it feel to torture American citizens on behalf of a … protesters on the road to hear, “this ain’t torture. We could peel the skin off your arms, …
'We all live in Khimki Forest' has become the rallying cry of a local forest defense campaign. Goldman Prize winner Evgenia Chirikova describes what it's like to be green in Russia the why a culture of impunity and corruption risks destroying the country's natural heritage
… by government officials] was arrested and tortured to death in custody. There are a …