Facing Finance’s partner organization, Justica Ambiental, has released three videos depicting human rights violations in the Mozambican village of Cateme. Inhabitants of three villages affected by Vale’s establishment of coalmines in the area were relocated to the village of Cateme. Located … →
(Berlin/London)- Embargoed until 04/23/2013, 11:00 CET / 10:00 GMT – Autonomous weapons designed to independently locate and destroy targets without human intervention must be banned. This is the message launched today in London by the newly formed “Campaign to Stop … →
Civil society will lead the way in convincing governments to pre-emptively ban fully autonomous weapons as they would cross moral and legal boundaries, and should be rejected as repugnant to the public conscience. The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots includes … →
Bumitama Gunajaya Agro (BGA), an Indonesian palm oil producer, cuts down rainforests for huge palm oil plantations. According to the organisation Rainforest Rescue, BGA already established 124,000 hectares of palm oil plantations in Borneo and Sumatra and is clearing … →
The UN has approved a treaty to regulate the international transfer of conventional arms. Member States voted the Arms Trade Treaty in by a resounding 154 approvals. Only three states, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Syria, and Iran, were … →