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 … many of his friends killed and has suffered torture at the hands of the Burmese military. … but I did not have any information. So they tortured me brutally for three days. Before …
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.' …
The closing down of a community radio station in eastern Paraguay is the latest example of political repression in the country with the most unequal land distribution in Latin America, writes Toby Hill, and in which the media are dominated by a tiny elite of the super-rich. As small farmers begin to reclaim the land that is rightfully theirs, landowners and the state they control are striking back.
… During his 35-year rule, General Stroessner tortured his opponents in bathtubs, threw them … cite witness reports of arbitrary detention, torture and extrajudicial executions. But the … , says Benitez from CODEHUPY. "It's produced torture, maltreatment, and violence." He notes …
Reporting from the frontline of environmental activism, Andrew Wasley takes a closer look at the environmental situation in Tibet.
… unknown. Sources indicate he too has been tortured, like so many others. London-based … dossier alleging the widespread use of torture against dissident Tibetan prisoners. … more difficult issues raised by the use of torture, and stopped far short of calling for …
Author Ken Saro-Wiwa spear-headed the resistance of the Ogoni people of the Niger Delta against environmental devastation from oil drilling and ruptured oil pipelines. He was executed in 1995. Dr Laurence Cox introduces his last letters.
… been lighter! My current detention is sheer torture. I'm a private prisoner of the Lt-Col … listen to radio or read books. It's mental torture. The living condition is okay - there …
The ongoing battle between US tree-sitters and North America’s big logging firms pitches some of the world’s most determined activists against some of its most ruthless corporations. It is a battle that the tree-sitters simply must not lose.
… happens a lot. PL has killed the tree and tortured the tree-sitters for no financial … logging across Guerrero, was arrested, tortured and sentenced to eight years in jail …
Haiti is a failed state: one of those places that just can’t seem to get its act together, despite the best efforts of benevolent Western powers. Or so the mainstream media would have you believe. Yet history tells us a more complicated story.
… that describes both Haiti’s landscape and its tortured history. The recent political …
Superpower confrontations and growing tensions in Ukraine, the Middle East and the Arctic are all part of a new Cold War, writes Alexander Reid Ross - and this time Green campaigners are under attack by both Russian authorities and NATO ...
… Instead of ranting against the 'brainwashing' torture tactics of the Communists in Russia …
Moving away from fossil fuels will require transforming our technological, social, and economic systems, rather than focussing on individual consumption.
… creatures being starved, choked, enmeshed and tortured by plastic waste. It also had an …
Radical hope is not just about determination and courage in the face of darkness, writes Paul Hoggett - it is also about love and a re-finding all that is benign in the world. And this is the spirit we need to muster to confront the serious challenges that lie before us - in the Paris climate talks and beyond.
… lot of thought. Indeed, why would you want to torture yourself by thinking about it? I admit …
We humans have much to learn from our kissing cousins, the peaceful, empathic, playful, sensual and highly sexual Bonobos, writes Susan Block. Rather than play out the myth of ancestral 'killer apes', better follow the 'Bonobo Way', and extend our love to all living beings and Earth herself.
… the devastating terror and the cynical torture need to be addressed with something … anti-war, anti-occupation, anti-nuke, anti-torture and police accountability movements …
'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 …
They’ve a big new sign by the road announcing GROZNY, each man-sized Cyrillic letter fresh and neat. Only the city itself is no longer there.
… the prisoner being released after beatings or torture, or in their being handed back dead or … blame them for many of the disappearances and torture cases; some, including Kadyrovites … anti-Western movement, but Russia itself. Torture, rape, destruction, looting and the …
The fossil fuel industry's big reaction to Global Divestment Day shows us something important, writes Kate Aronoff - they understand the existential danger they face better than we do. To win the battle for the world's climate, as we must, the victory must be total - and there is no place for neutrality or weak compromise.
… made a surreal cartoon about Americans' tortured love affair with oil drums. The …
The Indigenous Peoples of Standing Rock are by no means alone in their struggle for the recognition and preservation of their native lands: a very similar story of resistance against oil extraction is taking place further south, and has been going on for almost half a century, namely the fight of the Indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon against oil pollution and oppression, writes biologist ARTHUR WYNS
… events such as the 2008 imprisonment and torture of community leaders in response to …
With a bigger spotlight than ever on the role of banks in funding fossil fuel projects we report on unethical and environmentally damaging investments by Barclays, HSBC and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)
… criticised for bribing soldiers and police to torture and murder members of the indigenous …
A new wave of ruthless conquistadors has arrived in Peru, write Aldo Orellana Lopez and Philippa de Boissière - global corporations after minerals, oil, gas, timber, land ... And instead of brandishing the Bible and the sword, they proclaim high sounding policies on environment and human rights, while co-opting police and politicians in their pillage of resources.
… by allowing police to make arbitrary arrests, torture human rights defenders and …
Just as the humanitarian crisis of the Second World War gave birth to the swift implementation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 60 years ago in 1948, we now have a planetary crisis that needs to be addressed with equal urgency. Now is the time to call for a Universal Declaration of Planetary Rights.
… world where all live in harmony without torture, freedom of speech and assembly, …
Never mind the 'war on terror' rhetoric, writes Nafeez Ahmed. The purpose of Israel's escalating assault on Gaza is to control the Territory's 1.4 trillion cubic feet of gas - and so keep Palestine poor and weak, gain massive export revenues, and avert its own domestic energy crisis.
… the Jerusalem-based Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (Pcati) found that the IDF …