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الكفاح من أجل العدالة المناخية في شمال أفريقيا
(المقادمة للكتاب “الثورة القادمة في شمال افريقيا- العدالة المناخية”) حمزة حموشان وميكا مينيو-بالويللو سيؤدي تغير المناخ إلى تدمير شمال أفريقيا. وسيموت الكثيرون كما سيضطر الملايين من البشر إلى الهجرة. الصحراء آخذة بالتوسع والمحاصيل تفشل وصيادو الأسماك يفقدون مصادر رزقهم. سيزداد عدم انتظام الأمطار وستتضاءل إمدادات المياه وستصبح العواصف أكثر كثافة. الصيف سيصبح أكثر سخونة والشتاء…
28 Apr 2015 admin -
Azerbaijani activists and journalists not free to collect Freedom of Expression Award
Guest blog from Index on Censorship Index on Censorship gave a special award at our 15th Freedom of Expression Awards – to a group of people in Azerbaijan not able to join us to collect it. Over the past eight months, Azerbaijani authorities, under the leadership of President Ilham Aliyev, have been engaged in relentless…
20 Mar 2015 admin -
Oil Be Back: could drilling begin again in Ogoniland 22 years after the people kicked Shell out?
Recently there has been a flurry of Nigerian media headlines stating that oil drilling in Ogoniland could soon re-start. I have tried to dig deeper to assess what is currently known and what questions remain. Has Shell sold assets in Ogoniland? So far, there have been no news stories outside of Nigeria about Shell’s plans…
26 Feb 2015 admin -
Niger delta communities to sue Shell in London for oil spill compensation
John Vidal The Guardian
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Send your favourite quote to an Azerbaijan Political Prisoner
Our allies in Azerbaijan are under attack, right now, and we are asking people to send them solidarity messages and inspirational quotes. On 5 December investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova was arrested in Baku, Azerbaijan. As Khadija was bundled into a car camera flashes popped, people jostled and her friends banged on the car roof and shouted…
17 Dec 2014 admin -
EBRD plan Azerbaijan loan as regime’s fiercest critic is imprisoned
One of the most famous critics of the Aliyev regime has been imprisoned in Baku. Khadija Ismayilova, an award winning investigative journalist was arrested for ‘inciting suicide’. If found guilty she faces up to seven years in prison. Ismayilova has spent years uncovering corruption in Azerbaijan, which she has traced all the way up to…
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We forced Shell to commit to cleaning up the Niger Delta. Now let’s make it a reality.
When we launched our Action Saro-Wiwa campaign back in May we had no idea how many of you would get involved and we could never have imagined that a breakthrough could happen so soon. After all, communities have suffered the deadly effects of widespread pollution in the Niger Delta for over 50 years. But your…
28 Nov 2014 admin -
سياسات النفط والصراع علي كوباني
كان يفترض أن تسقط كوباني. فعند هجوم داعش علي البلدة، حاصرتها القوات التركية من الشمال، مانعة عنها أي تعزيزات ومعتقلة مئات النازحين. وقد قصفت الطائرات الأمريكية قوات داعش في أماكن أخري، لتقودهم نحو روج آفا: المنطقة الكردية الكبيرة في شمالي سوريا والتي تحكمها ذاتيا الحركة من أجل مجتمع ديمقراطي (تيف-ديم،) والتي يرأسها سياسا حزب الاتحاد…
25 Nov 2014 admin -
Sweet (Crude) Lies: is the game up for Shell?
Last week, Shell was forced to reveal documents as part of an ongoing legal case against them in the UK High Court brought by 15,000 community members in Bodo in the Niger Delta. The documents expose the fact that Shell has repeatedly made false claims about the size and impact of two major oil spills at…
17 Nov 2014 admin
