Tarjei Kidd Olsen
OSLO, Jul 2 2008 (IPS) – Environmental damage, diseases or workers rights abuses are common at fish farms in Chile and Canada operated by the world s largest salmon company, according to activists.
Fish lice-infected salmon at a Canadian salmon farm. Credit: Pure Salmon Campaign
A group of Chilean and Canadian scientists and activists visited Oslo to press home the accusations at the company s annual general meeting last month.
The Norwegian-run company, Marine Harvest, denies many of the…
Charles Mpaka
LILONGWE, Oct 9 2009 (IPS) – It was, Malawian police say, a routine sweep for criminals at one of the country s busiest border posts. They were looking for criminals.
A Malawian sex worker who says she was forced by police to undergo an HIV test. Credit: Charles Mpaka
But when police arrested 14 prostitutes as part of their search, and then allegedly forcefully tested them for HIV and charged them for deliberately trading in sex while having a sexually…
PORTLAND, Oregon, Jun 23 2011 – You might say Nick Patton was born to fish. Literally born on a boat, Nick spent his earliest years living in orphanages along the Alaskan coastline. He ran away at the age of eight and quickly learned how to take care of himself and to rely on others traveling in groups around the Pacific Northwest, picking apples and doing day labour.
Traumatic brain injuries often go undiagnosed, especially on the streets. Credit: Street Roots
He was only 11 yea…
KOLKATA, Dec 13 2013 (IPS) – Human rights have taken a step back in India, activists say after the Supreme Court overturned a ruling of the High Court that had earlier lifted the ban on gay sex.
The Delhi High Court ruling had in effect suspended application of Article 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The article, which criminalises homosexuality, was introduced in India in 1860 under British colonial rule, echoing conservative Victorian values of the age. The 19th century law indicts homosexuality as going against the law of nature by indulging in “unnatural acts”.
The Delhi High Court ruling was in response to a petition filed in 2001 by the , an NGO in Delhi, that challenged the constitutional validity of the article on the grounds that it criminalises homosexu…
Women village councilors in Penakota, a village in southeast India, go out into a field to relieve themselves, as there are no toilets in their workplace. Credit: Stella Paul/IPS
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 27 2017 (IPS) – What would life be like without access to a toilet? What if our waste was not properly disposed of?
For those in the developed world, such questions are hard to fathom, but for 2.3 billion people around the world it’s a reality. Without access to a toilet many are forced to defecate in the open, significantly increasing the changes of spreading diseases.
The sixth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG’…
Credit: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
LONDON, Dec 8 2021 (IPS) – Officially reported deaths from started to rise again in autumn 2021 in a number of economies in the . While in advanced economies in Europe the mortality rate has remained low despite the pick-up in Covid-19 cases, in the EBRD regions the mortality and infection rates continued to move in tandem.
Reflecting this, daily Covid-19 deaths per million population were four times higher in the EBRD regions than in advanced Europe as of November 2021.
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