(88) Saudi Arabia Sentences Woman To 34 Years For Twitter Activism
Salma al-Shehab, a 34-year-old mother of two and former PhD student at the University of Leeds, who in 2021 was handed a 34-year-long jail sentence for tweeting her support for women’s human rights defenders in her native Saudi Arabia, has gone on hunger strike. Salma was arrested in January 2021 while on a visit home […]
(87) Inequalities Faced By Women In Agriculture Cost the World $1 Trillion
Agriculture and food systems are a significant employer for women globally – and are a more critical source of livelihood for women than for men. However, women face inequalities that constrain their full participation in the sector. They are likely to work under worse conditions than men, taking informal, part-time, labour-intensive and low-skilled jobs at […]
(86) Tesla’s German Factory Will Exhaust the Area’s Water Supply in Gruenheide.
Tesla is facing “criminal” allegations regarding Gigafactory Berlin as environmentalists accuse the automaker of “suspected water pollution and a possible environmental crime.” For years now, Tesla has been in battle with environmentalists in Germany who have tried to stop or slow down the construction of and production at Gigafactory Berlin. Tesla’s factory would roughly double […]
(85) UN Launches Ten-Year ‘Survival Plan’ for Endangered Languages
The United Nations launched what it calls the International Decade of Indigenous Languages—a ten-year “survival plan” to protect global Indigenous languages from extinction, in response to predictions that more than half of all languages will be lost by the end of the 21st century. From the remaining Ika-speaking Arhuaco people of Colombia to remote Indigenous […]
(84) Exxon’s Own Science Was Scary Accurate About Global Warming. So It Covered It Up.
Despite sowing uncertainty about the existence and cause of global climate change, Exxon privately projected global warming with frightening accuracy for decades, a new study reveals. By digitizing and analyzing internal documents produced by ExxonMobil scientists between 1977 and 2002, a team of Harvard and University of Potsdam researchers put numbers behind recent rallying cries […]
(83) Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Media Tycoon Jimmy Lai Jailed In Lease Violation Case
Lai, who was arrested during a crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy movement following widespread protests in 2019, was also fined 2 million Hong Kong dollars ($377,868). His media company, Next Digital, published the now-defunct pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily. The publication was forced to close following the arrests of its top executives, editors and journalists last […]
(82) Over 17,000 Civilians Killed In Ukraine Since February — UN
The number of civilians, killed in Ukraine since February, has exceeded 17,000, including over 400 children, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths told the UN Security Council on Tuesday.The World Health Organization reports at least 715 attacks on health care in the country, including 630 that impacted health facilities and 61 that affected personnel. In […]
(81) Pinkwashing: How Companies Profit off Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Pinkwashing is when a company uses that recognizable pink ribbon symbol or signature shade to market a product or service without meaningfully supporting breast cancer research or awareness. Pink imagery is now one of the most widely recognized marketing tools for breast cancer, but it’s not regulated by any agency, and its use does not […]
(80) Rwanda: Wave of Free Speech Prosecutions
Judicial authorities in Rwanda are prosecuting opposition members, journalists, and commentators on the basis of their speech and opinions, Human Rights Watch said today. Throughout 2020 and 2021, Human Rights Watch monitored trials in which judicial authorities pursued politically motivated prosecutions and perpetuated a culture of intolerance of dissent. Journalists using YouTube as a platform […]
(79) Over 100,000 People Officially Missing Or Disappeared In Mexico
Mexico has officially registered more than 100,000 people as missing or disappeared, according to data from the Interior Ministry’s National Registry of Missing People. From 1964 to the present day 2022, the country has registered more than 100,023 people missing, of which more than 24,700 are women, and more than 74,700 are men. The gender […]