Lawsuits against Shell and Chevron
Lawsuits against oil giants should come along with or be subsequently followed by indictments against ferocious dictators, power-obsessed militaries, corrupt officials, irresponsible national companies and mercenary individuals.
But who dares to throw the first stone?!
Child Prostitution in Cambodia
The business model of forced prostitution is similar from Pakistan to Vietnam to the United States.
Acid Attacks: Terror against Women
…there is an equally cruel form of terrorism that gets almost no attention and thrives as a result: flinging acid on a woman’s face to leave her hideously deformed.
The hidden hunger for vitamins and micronutrients
The general rise in food prices (in part because of American use of corn for ethanol) is leading to more micronutrient deficiencies.
Hunger: Mud-pies for Haiti’s poor
The poorest of the poor – women and children – try to fill their bellies with mud-pies formerly used as an antacid and a source of calcium…
Global Crisis In Amazon Rainforest
The global crisis has revived this and other wildcat mines in Brazil where hundreds of thousands of desperate workers toil in precarious conditions, damaging health and environment
Maldives: Help from Outer Space
“We can do nothing to stop climate change on our own, and so we have to buy land elsewhere” (Mohamed Nasheed)
Hog Farming: Filth and Flu
“Almost unnoticed by the rest of the Continent, Smithfield Foods, the agribusiness giant has moved into Eastern Europe with the force of a factory engine…
Garbage: Junk value for the urban poor
The metropole’s garbage is a surrogate building material for these urban poor – a critical filler to deal with the stagnant water(…)
