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.' …
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 …
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 …
WWF’s support for 'fortress conservation' has led to serious human rights abuses for indigenous peoples, writes Lewis Evans, and nowhere more so than in Cameroon, where the Baka are considered trespassers and poachers in their own ancestral forests. A formal complaint against WWF's behaviour is now in process.
… be subjected to beatings, harassment and torture - as the Baka and neighboring tribes … in the Cameroonian government who said: "We torture [suspected poachers] when they don't … that had just unofficially endorsed torture. Since 2012, several further …
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 …
Kara Moses reports on a group of 10-year-olds from Holly Trees Primary School who - by fundraising for Kew's Millennium Seed Bank Partnership - have helped secure the future of a rare Namibian plant that was virtually extinct in the wild
… herself why she ever signed up for this water torture. The reason: a rare but rather …
Last week the Upper Tribunal of the Royal Courts of Justice ordered Defra to release key information about the badger cull based on a 'public interest' argument, writes Lesley Docksey. Could this judgment open a new era of transparent and accountable government?
… oft-repeated words "never been complicit in torture " . Except that, despite denials, we …
Whales, dolphins and porpoises have no respite from oil and chemicals, fishing nets, shipping, noise pollution and a host of other dangers brought about by man's unrelenting destruction of the oceans, says Anthony Wall
… with this rising racket. It’s self-inflicted torture. But what of the other creatures who …
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 …
Brian May is best known as lead guitarist for the rock band Queen. But as Lesley Docksey discovers, he is also an astrophysicist, and a committed - and highly effective - advocate for Britain's wild animals, including badgers put at risk by England's cull programme.
… that feels it is their right to persecute and torture wildlife for sport" ? Was it …
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 …