The following is excerpted from the recently released book, The Rights of Nature: The Case for a Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth, produced by the Council of Canadians, Global Exchange and Fundacion Pachamama. This book reveals the path of a...
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May 20, 2011
Just more than a year after the world’s biggest unintentional oil spill — the disaster that unleashed a quantity of oil equivalent to the Valdez oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico every four days — the nation has directed its gaze elsewhere. But Sheila Kelley of...
May 5, 2011
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For us, the death of Osama Bin Laden is a...
May 2, 2011
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The Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico exploded on April 20 last year. Eleven men were killed, and the well was not capped for over...
April 18, 2011
Travel restrictions to Cuba are easing soon, but legally chugging mojitos, puffing Cohibas and lounging by a Havana hotel pool is still a ways off.
Pres. Obama’s changing of U.S. policies towards Cuba are expected to become official this week. But unless you’re a scholar, student or...
January 25, 2011
(San Francisco, Jan. 20) — The Obama administration’s January 14 announcement that it is lifting some government-imposed restrictions on travel to Cuba for several categories of U.S. citizens —including college students, people engaged in journalism, and those sponsored...
January 20, 2011
Patton Boggs wants to keep representing plaintiffs in a human rights and environmental action against Chevron Corp. Standing in the way of that continued legal work is the oil giant itself. The law firm this week filed court papers in Washington's federal trial court...
January 14, 2011
MADRID, 13 January 2011 (IRIN) - Asma Al-Haidari, an Amman-based Iraqi human rights analyst and advocate, says the phenomenon of enforced disappearances in Iraq touches the whole population, irrespective of age, gender, ethnicity or religious belief.
The number of missing persons in Iraq...
January 13, 2011
* Chevron subpoenas film clips, says they show misconduct *
Plaintiffs mull pressure tactics in documentary outtakes *
Amazon court seen ruling later this year in $27 bln case
By Hugh Bronstein QUITO, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Outtakes from a documentary...
January 11, 2011
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January 5, 2011