Meet the girls defending the future of the Amazon.
Despite the 2021 court ruling on an action brought by nine young climate activists to order the elimination of gas flaring, the Ecuadorian state continues to allow this harmful practice by the fossil fuel industry.
Join the @amnestysasia webinar on "Addressing Enforced Disappearances in South Asia", happening on 28 August 2024.
🔗Join us here: https://t.co/g3SjY8baU8
We stand firm against a new decision to support food cultivation within Mt.Elgon forest. We advocate for sustainable forest conservation and protection of indigenous livelihoods.
@KWSKenya@KeForestService@Environment_Ke@InteriorKE@StandardKenya
https://t.co/fDJ79GySIG
#CarbonoGris🇨🇴
Para @CConstitucional de Colombia, un proyecto de carbono desarrollado en la Amazonía del país vulnera derechos de una comunidad indígena, e incluso amenaza su supervivencia futura. El fallo podría sentar precedente para proyectos similares. https://t.co/I8Ph9y3hVT
@lilyallen@BBCSounds@miquitaoliver The #ElginMarbles aren’t the only things that should be returned from British museums
In 1898, two rebel leaders in Zimbabwe were hanged, decapitaed & their heads sent to Britain as trophies
Their skulls, & 100,000+ other human remains, are still here!👇
🔎 Un estadounidense acusado de robo de tierras públicas en negocios de #bonosdecarbono en Pará está detrás de 18 nuevos proyectos en la Amazonía brasileña. Una historia de @sumaumajornal para la alianza #CarbonoOpaco. ⬇️ https://t.co/g4Ocztv361
📢#Investigation
110,000 people from in and around tiger reserves are facing threat of eviction, even as India's tiger conservation plan completed 50 yrs in 2023.
Tadoba, Mudumalai show discrepancies in relocation; but dev projs are approved. Read more:
https://t.co/70bUOBMuW0
Breaking news
UN experts lead the way in the call for urgently needed Torture-Free Trade Treaty to combat “increased use of force to suppress protesters”
https://t.co/xNFTWvzvBA
#ProtectTheProtest#TortureFreeTrade
I condemn last night’s killing of #Shia#Hazara worshippers at a mosque in Guzara #Herat. All #Afghans must be able to #prayinpeace I urge prevention, protection & justice for Hazara/Shia who continue to be targeted, including in Herat. Condolences to the families and community.
Global: UN Special Rapporteur Is Right to Raise Human Rights Concerns about Carbon Markets
@Amnesty’s Advisor on Indigenous Rights, @spinachcharm, said:
https://t.co/WGfv09HLo4
Looking forward to being a discussant for @radical_carib's paper 'The Scale of (In)Justice: Racial capitalism, the crisis of ecological imperialism, and the transnational struggle for reparations' with Rev. Prof. @keithlmagee chairing. 19 May 3-5 BST. @IIPP_UCL#reparationsnow
#WorldHeritageDay
Did you know many of @UNESCO's World Heritage Sites are war zones for Indigenous people, who are being forcefully evicted from their lands? This happens with the complicity and sometimes even the support of UNESCO.
✊ Share, tag @UNESCO & use #DecolonizeUNESCO
I wrote something for @mailandguardian on Africa’s complicated relationship with int’l criminal justice, the ubiquity of Western impunity & the draft crimes against humanity convention #CAHtreaty
@thetrainline can you tell me why I just paid £5.19 booking fee? No explanation. In your fees guide it says usually between 59p and £2.49 so why more than double??