Multilateral organizations, including the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), UNICEF, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and Global Fund, have expressed strong concern about the deteriorating health situation in Venezuela. The OHCHR states that there are widespread shortages of food, medicines, and basic medical supplies. Last year, 30% of all […]
In late 2012, vulture funds came to light with the bold seizure of an Argentine naval vessel, the ARA Libertad, in the Ghana port city of Tema. After two-and-a-half months under the control of the U.S.-based vulture fund NML capital — run by billionaire Paul Singer — the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in […]
Every year, the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Committee on Freedom of Association releases a list of cases examined and their findings, placing a higher priority on some particularly egregious violations or lack of responsiveness on the part of governments. This year, situations in Argentina, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Fiji, and Peru were determined to be the most […]
Democracy produces stability only when it actually responds to the needs of the people. So India is taking steps to neutralize a Maoist rebellion in eastern India by increasing payments to local people being displaced by mining development. The government will introduce a new bill, probably in the current session of parliament, to raise the payout […]
New aerial photographs show at least four illegal logging camps inside the Murunahua Reserve in Peru, Survival International reported yesterday. The Reserve is located deep in the Amazonian rainforest of Peru and was established to protect the uncontacted Murunahua Indians. The illegal logging camps present a huge threat to the Murunahua Indians, who like their neighboring ancestors, […]