Author: Injusticeto Team

Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol arrives at the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials in Gwacheon, South Korea on Wednesday. /AP/Korea Pool hide caption toggle caption /AP/Korea Pool SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol was apprehended for questioning over insurrection charges, a month and a half after he briefly imposed martial law. He is the country’s first sitting president to be detained. With his detention, investigators turned the page on weeks of anxiety about potential clashes between the presidential security detail and the police following the issuance of Yoon’s warrant. But the political…

The ongoing fires ravaging Los Angeles, U.S., have killed at least 25 people and burned more than 12,000 buildings. Many of the structures destroyed were homes, mansions of the rich and famous and middle-class homes alike. Irrespective of the wealth of their owners, most homes destroyed likely had one thing in common: plastic. As Mongabay contributor Alden Wicker reports, modern homes that survive fires often remain uninhabitable due to the toxic chemicals released by synthetic furnishings and building materials. By 2022, more than $16 billion in plastic building materials were sold globally each year, a 50% increase in…

A Kenyan government minister has alleged that the country’s national intelligence agency was behind the abduction of his son last year, as criticism against the rising cases of abductions continues.Public Service Cabinet Secretary Justin Muturi said that it took a call by President William Ruto to have his son released by the National Intelligence Service (NIS).Muturi is the first member of the cabinet to publicly criticise the government’s handling of the spate of abductions in Kenya.In a statement to the police crime investigations unit on Tuesday, Muturi gave a detailed account of how his son, Leslie, was abducted on 22…

After years of halting progress, New York Governor Kathy Hochul finally signed the state’s climate superfund into law in the waning hours of 2024. The landmark legislation follows the “polluter pays” approach that a traditional, federally regulated superfund applies to ground and water pollution, and it expands the doctrine to the costs of damages from climate change, where greenhouse emissions are the analogous pollution. The law seeks to recover $75 billion from major oil and gas companies over the next 25 years, in $3 billion annual installments. New York’s law is the second of its kind in the U.S. to…

Jakarta’s age-old problem of air pollution reached record heights in 2023, posing significant health risks to its residents. Rafsi Albar scrutinises the government’s response through a human rights lens. The Indonesian public is appalled by the worsening air quality in Jakarta. The city has, for years, been plagued by worsening air quality. However, recent months have been the worst in city history. Recent reports by IQAir consistently rank Jakarta as one of the top 10 most polluted cities since May 2023, with June 14 and August 9 being the days it peaked as the world’s first most polluted city. This problem extends…

Transcript: As more people buy EVs, charging them could strain the electric grid – especially if everyone charges at times when electricity use is already high. Cody: “Typically, electricity demand is at its highest when people are getting home from work, turning on the lights, cooking dinner, running laundry.” Kendall Cody is with a startup called WeaveGrid. She says when demand is high, utilities sometimes need to turn on backup power plants, which often use dirtier fossil fuels. And it’s expensive. So WeaveGrid developed software that utilities can offer to customers who own EVs to optimize the times when they…

On January 9, 2025, the Polish government adopted a resolution that enables senior Israeli officials to participate in events commemorating the Auschwitz concentration camp’s liberation on January 27. This could include welcoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for atrocities in Gaza, and contradicts Poland’s legal obligation as an ICC member to comply with all ICC arrest warrants.The move followed discussion in the government on the ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu and comes despite Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s recent pledge to restore the rule of law in Poland and as the country takes the helm of the…

[Read in English here] El Año Nuevo comenzó con uno de los incendios forestales más terribles de la historia: una tormenta de fuego en el área metropolitana de Los Ángeles que ha causado la muerte de al menos cinco personas y ha reducido miles de viviendas a cenizas. Dos grandes incendios de más de 10.000 acres -el de Palisades al oeste y el de Eaton al norte – se intensificaron debido a la extrema sequía y a los vientos de Santa Ana con ráfagas de hasta 100 mph. El climatólogo Daniel Swain declaró a CNN que el incendio de Pacific…

On the 12-year anniversary of the unresolved enforced disappearance of Lao civil society leader Sombath Somphone, we, the undersigned civil society organizations and individuals worldwide, urge United Nations (UN) member states to express their concern over this continuing crime and to call for the prompt resolution of Sombath’s case at the upcoming review of the human rights record of Laos.As UN member states prepare for the fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Laos, scheduled for April/May 2025 in Geneva, Switzerland, we call on them to reinforce civil society’s long-standing calls for truth and accountability regarding Sombath’s enforced disappearance.During the second…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Tuesday blamed years of deforestation for a deadly mudslide that buried a mountainside community amid last week’s torrential rains set off by a storm that has left more than 130 people dead across the country.During an aerial inspection of the widespread damage wrought by Tropical Storm Nalgae in southern Maguindanao province, the president said he pointed out to the provincial governor how the mudslides cascaded on denuded slopes of Mount Minandar.“I noticed that in all places where the landslides came down, the mountains were bald. That’s the problem,” Marcos Jr.…