It has been four years since the Inter-American Court of Human Rights found Ecuador guilty of granting the ancestral land of the Sarayaku in concession to an oil and gas company. The community of about 1,200 indigenous Kichwa people is situated along the Bobonaza River, in the southern part of the Ecuadorian Amazon. In 2012, the Court reaffirmed the right of
Economia, politica estera, istruzione. I temi hanno dominato l’ultimo incontro tra i due candidati, finalmente. Ma Trump rovina tutto: “Non so se accetterò il risultato delle elezioni”.
Bertha Isabel Zúniga Cáceres is the daughter of Berta Cáceres, Honduran environmental activist committed to protecting indigenous rights and cofounder of COPINH, the Civil Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras. Winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize 2015 for opposing the construction of a hydroelectric dam that threatens to destroy the sacred river of the Lenca
Damian Marley is transforming a prison into a marijuana plantation to give more than one hundred ex-prisoners a job.
After the freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly and petition, the American Constitution grants its citizens the right to bear arms with the Second Amendment. There have been many interpretations of the 27 words of the Amendment, which descends directly from 1689 English Bill of Rights. Guns have since then been at the heart of the United States’
Lungi dall’essere un difetto, la snervante lentezza dei bradipi consente a questi animali di ottimizzare le energie e di nascondersi dai predatori.
A typical scene: you get out from work and take a bike from the station near Bryant Park, riding through New York City headed to a new bar for a chat with a friend. Or you need it just for 10 blocks at lunchtime to go and see a shop in Soho that just opened. Citi
The case of Awas Tingni, a small indigenous Mayangna community in Nicaragua, made history. This year the community celebrates fifteen years since it won the case in Inter-American Court of Human Rights (I-A Court), which ruled that the government should given them entitlement over their ancestral lands – also in order to protect them from exploitation at the
Ethanol, the biofuel made from corn and other plant materials, was once acclaimed as the solution to the United States’ dependence on foreign oil. Yet growing evidence, including a recent study from the University of Michigan, shows how the fuel is not reducing CO2 emissions as previously thought, but is instead contributing to the environmental demise of the American Great Plains,
A new US report warns of the presence of glyphosate in honey. The Roundup herbicide was found in all the samples analysed by the FDA.
