Gaza damage and Glasgow raids: human rights this fortnight in pictures
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A roundup of the coverage on struggles for human rights and freedoms, from Myanmar to Peru Continue reading…
Read More‘Rocks under where the dam will be built is not safe … If there is a fault in the structure, the dam will give way,’ says West Sepik officialA proposed dam to hold billions of tonnes of mine waste near the head of Papua New Guinea’s longest river is a …
Read MoreA sustainable forestry project established to develop PNG’s Western Province has become mired in an international corruption scandal “There is always the stench of corruption around a deal that is too bad to be true or too good to be true,” a full-page…
Read MoreThe death toll from the disaster at a gold mine in Shandong province rises to 10Chinese rescuers have found the bodies of nine workers killed in explosions at a gold mine, raising the death toll to 10.Eleven others were rescued a day earlier after bein…
Read MoreWorkers trapped in a gold mine after an explosion at the site in eastern China on 10 January have sent a written note to the surface saying that 12 of the miners trapped underground are still alive.Twenty-two workers were trapped in the Hushan min…
Read MoreAt least 12 of 22 gold miners survived the blast in eastern Shandong province, note sent to surface suggestsTwelve workers trapped underground after an explosion at a gold mine in eastern China a week ago are still alive, according to a note retrieved …
Read MoreFive still trapped after accident involving workers dismantling underground equipment at Diaoshuidong coal mine Eighteen miners have been confirmed dead after a carbon monoxide leak at a coal mine in southwestern China, state media reported, with rescu…
Read MoreNew Zealand and loved ones of the 29 miners killed mourn as efforts continue to recover their bodies It has been a decade since an explosion at New Zealand’s Pike River mine killed 29 miners, and for the family left behind the wounds remain raw and ope…
Read MorePanguna mine is often cast as the economic key to Bougainville’s potential independence, but young MP Theonila Matbob says her people, and their land, must come firstFor all of Theonila Roka Matbob’s three decades, the scar on her land that was once th…
Read MoreTwo companies granted permission to clear land at Hwange national park, home to cheetahs, elephants and rhinosRhinos, giraffes, cheetahs and other endangered species face a new threat in Zimbabwe’s Hwange national park: Chinese mining companies.Zhongxi…
Read MoreSite that uses more than a tenth of the entire nation’s power and is one of New Zealand’s biggest employers is to shutMore than 1,000 jobs will be lost in New Zealand after mining giant Rio Tinto said it would close an aluminium smelter at the bottom o…
Read MoreLocals say the Sepik river region must be protected from ‘exploitation and destruction from outsiders’Chiefs from 28 haus tambarans – “spirit houses” – representing 78,000 people along Papua New Guinea’s remote Sepik river have formally declared they w…
Read MoreThe announcement not to renew the goldmine lease is fraught but part of an attempt to ‘take back PNG’Late in April, in the middle of a global pandemic and slow-boiling domestic economic crisis, the government of Papua New Guinea made the surprising ann…
Read MoreAustralian photographer Brian Cassey visits Hasdeo Arand, one of the largest contiguous stretches of dense forest in central India. The area is rich in biodiversity, containing many threatened species including elephants, leopards and sloth bears. A ra…
Read MoreInjuries and fatalities are common among thousands of debt-bonded men and children toiling in one of the world’s harshest work environmentsAll photographs by Mashal BalochThe spectre of death hovers over the coal mines of Balochistan. Under scorching s…
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