Author: Injusticeto Team
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Additional water tankers and scores of firefighters have arrived at the Los Angeles area ahead of fierce winds that were forecast to return and threaten the progress made so far on two massive infernos that have destroyed thousands of homes and killed at least 24 people.On Monday, planes doused homes and hillsides with bright pink fire-retardant chemicals, while crews and fire engines were being placed near particularly vulnerable spots with dry brush. Dozens of water trucks rolled in to replenish supplies after hydrants ran dry last week when the two largest fires erupted. Tabitha Trosen and…
Less than three weeks after a December 25 military airstrike in Sokoto state reportedly killed 10 villagers, an airstrike in Zamfara state has resulted in more accidental deaths. The victims, who the military wrongly identified as bandits, were members of a local vigilante group and farmers in the vicinity of Tungar Kara village, Zurmi Local Government Area.Similar airstrikes have killed hundreds of people in Nigeria. They have been carried out during operations against bandit gangs that emerged from years of conflict between farming and herding communities in Nigeria’s northwest. The military has called the killings of ordinary people accidental, but…
This week, Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority banned the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, from using the personal data of its child users in Brazil to train its artificial intelligence (AI).The data regulator also banned X from sharing children’s personal data with third parties to train generative AI and ordered the company to amend its privacy policy to reflect these changes.X, owned by Elon Musk, has five business days to comply with the decision, which was issued December 16. It has 10 business days to make further changes to its privacy policy that would disallow the company from collecting and…
Lawmakers in El Salvador recently voted to reintroduce industrial mining in the country, ending a 2017 landmark ban that has protected freshwater and public health.President Nayib Bukele has advocated for the return of mining despite the unpopularity of the industry in El Salvador, arguing that it will bring in billions of dollars and create thousands of jobs.The government will have at least 51% control over every mining project while also being in charge of oversight, causing concern from environmentalists that it will be hard to challenge projects that aren’t being carried out responsibly.See All Key Ideas Lawmakers in…
A Metropolitan Police firearms officer has been found not guilty of the murder of Chris Kaba. Chris Kaba, a 24 year old Black man, was fatally shot by Martyn Blake, a firearms officer from the Metropolitan Police on 5 September 2022 in Streatham, London. He was unarmed. On 5 September 2024, Metropolitan police forced the car Chris was driving to stop believing it was linked to a firearms incident the previous night in nearby Brixton. The car was not registered to Chris and was not stolen. The officers did not know who was driving the car. Chris was unarmed and…
In October 2024, Israel’s Knesset passed legislation banning the UNRWA from operating in Israeli-occupied territories, marking a critical shift in the history of Palestinian humanitarian aid. Eltayeb Bashar argues that the ban, set to take effect in January 2025, will hinder UNRWA’s ability to provide essential services to millions of Palestinian refugees who are facing atrocious human rights violations. This move is viewed as a violation of international law and will have a devastating impact on Palestinian lives. In late October 2024, the Israeli Knesset enacted two bills prohibiting the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in…
Transcript: In the Great Plains, black-tailed prairie dogs scamper in the grass and dig massive burrows where they live together in colonies. Lindsey Sterling Krank of the Humane Society of the United States says prairie dogs are cute – and important to the ecosystem. Many other species depend on them as prey or even live in their burrows. Sterling Krank: “You’ve got eagles, you’ve got burrowing owls, black-footed ferrets, even tiger salamanders.” But prairie dogs are in trouble. Much of their habitat has been lost to agriculture, and the southern part of their range is becoming too dry. Sterling Krank…
Amid growing concerns about its existing air pollution problem, Turkish authorities have approved the expansion of one of Türkiye’s biggest coal power plants. The decision to greenlight two additional new units at Afşin-Elbistan plant A, in southeastern Türkiye, comes despite local community concerns the expansion will exacerbate the already dangerous health impacts of the plant.Human Rights Watch’s analysis of air pollution levels in Elbistan shows that the coal plant already poses significant threats to people’s health. Between January 2021 and June 2024, the average concentration in the area of pollutant PM2.5 (very small particles that can penetrate deep into the lungs and…
SYDNEY/PERTH, Thursday 9 January 2025 — In response to Woodside’s referral of its Browse CCS proposal to the federal government for assessment, the following comments can be attributed to Geoff Bice, WA Campaign Lead at Greenpeace Australia Pacific: “Carbon capture and storage is an expensive distraction that fossil fuel corporations use to greenwash their emissions, so we’re not surprised that Woodside is yet again trying to shirk its climate responsibilities. “Woodside’s carbon dumping plans for Browse involve injecting the carbon pollution from its offshore gas production into a reservoir underneath the ocean — both environmentally reckless and doomed to fail.…
(Bangkok) – Thai authorities should immediately and thoroughly investigate the killing of a former Cambodian opposition politician in Bangkok, Human Rights Watch said today.On January 7, 2025 in the early evening, a gunman shot dead Lim Kimya, a 74-year-old former member of the Cambodian parliament from the now-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), outside Bangkok’s Wat Bowonniwet temple. He and his wife had just arrived by bus from Siem Reap province in Cambodia. Thai authorities later identified the gunman as Aekaluck Paenoi, a former Thai marine, and issued a warrant for his arrest. Local media reported that Cambodian authorities arrested…