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Tanzania wants to evict Maasai for wildlife – but they’re fighting back

Al Jazeera

August 5, 2024

Community members are on a campaign to get international donors to defund their government and stop rights violations.

Facing pressure from rights groups, World Bank suspends funding for Tanzania tourism project

AP News

April 23, 2024

The World Bank has suspended funding for a tourism project in Tanzania that caused the suffering of tens of thousands of villagers, according to a U.S.-based rights group that has long urged the global lender to take such action.

Harmful mining continues in Nicaragua despite U.S. sanctions, new investigation shows

Mongabay

February 5, 2024

U.S. sanctions imposed in 2022 against Nicaragua’s mining industry were supposed to help combat a bloody wave of human rights abuses against local communities. But several years later, some aspects of the sanctions still aren’t being enforced, allowing mining companies to continue operations and even expand into new parts of the country.

Carbon Offsets: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

HBO

August 21, 2022

John Oliver explains what carbon offsets are, what they claim to do, how they might be making climate change even worse, and, of course, how Oscar Isaac is getting hotter.

UN Chief to Convene "No Nonsense" Climate Summit to Avert Disaster

IDN-InDepthNews

By Thalif Deen

UNITED NATIONS (IDN) — UN Secretary-General António Guterres has never ceased to warn about the impending hazards of climate change worldwide. “We are on a fast track to climate disaster,” he has predicted rather ominously and pointed out that some of the world’s major cities are under water.

“There are...
This Human Rights Day, Stand With the Maasai to End Fortress Conservation

Common Dreams

The colonization of Indigenous lands in the name of conservation has devastated far too many lives and must immediately end.
The World Cup In Qatar Is a Climate Catastrophe

Scientific American

Large sporting events often claim to be carbon neutral. But often this assertion is greenwashing, and it hides the incredible amount of pollution they actually create
Tanzania Drops Murder Charges Against 24 Maasai Land Defenders

Grist

The alleged murder occurred when state security forces tried to evict the Maasai to create a hunting preserve.
Anuradha Mittal, Founder-Executive Director of Oakland Institute gets 2022 Feyerabend Award

NewsIn.Asia

Oakland, California, November 10: Anuradha Mittal, Founder-Executive Director of Oakland Institute had bagged the 2022 Feyerabend Award. Established in memory of philosopher of science, Paul K. Feyerabend, the “Paul K. Feyerabend Award — A World of Solidarity is Possible” recognizes exemplary individuals, communities or organisations that bring...
Developing Nations Risk Missing Development Goals Long Before 2030

IDN - InDepthNews

UNITED NATIONS (IDN) — The late Everett McKinley Dirksen, an American politician. once famously said: "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money".