Domestic tax breaks are almost as lucrative to farmers – or rather, large landowners – as controversial EU subsidies. A new report examines this until now neglected hidden subsidy.
The recent court judgment followed years of advocacy by LGBTQ+ people and rights groups. A next step must be laws to protect queer lives – including against hate crimes.
People's tribunals are a popular way for citizens to take the reins from the state when it fails to live up to its obligations. But what sort of knowledge do they produce in the process?
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Pesquisadores da Survival International, movimento de defesa dos povos indígenas, alertam que existem cinco características alarmantes compartilhadas por Iván Duque e Jair Bolsonaro. É uma advertência global: a possibilidade real de genocídios e a biodiversidade do planeta estão em jogo. Español E
Joane es una joven activista brasileña lucha por cambiar los hábitos de su pueblo, que se recojan y dejen de quemar residuos. En demasiadas áreas del río Tapajós, la proliferación del plástico en el ambiente es gigantesca. Detener esta deriva absurda y empezar a revertirla es una tarea de dimensió
Mientras la situación política se sigue agravando en Venezuela, la alta comisionada de la ONU para los derechos humanos, Michelle Bachelet, visita el país para dar sus impresiones de la crisis.
This Brazilian activist is responsible for an association of 6 afro-Brazilian communities that face the threat of the destruction of their environment. Her story is the third in the series of 'Rainforest Defenders", that presents 5 young leaders fighting to preserve the Brazilian Amazon rainforest
