“Before, there were many fish,” says fisherman Mohd-Ishak Bin Abdul Rahman as he pulls a dried up crab from his net. A few years ago he could just walk out into the surf and pick up crustaceans with his bare hands, he tells me. “Now, nothing.” He bl...
Brazilian police have arrested a priest in the Amazon who championed the rights of smallholders against powerful agricultural interests. Father Amaro Lopes is the best-known follower of the American-born nun, Dorothy Stang, who was murdered in 2005...
Human rights defenders who challenge big corporations are being killed, assaulted, harassed and suppressed in growing numbers, researchers have claimed. A survey by the Business and Human Rights Resource Center recorded a 34% global rise in attacks...