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- Activists seek fresh ban on Sierra Leone timber exports
- FREETOWN AFP — The Environmental Forum for Action, one of the most influential activist groups in Sierra Leone, called Monday on the government to reimpose the ban on timber exports that was lifted in July. "With less than five percent of forested areas left in the country, the decision...
- Research articles 2008-09-01
- UC Berkeley police, FBI raid activist cooperative
- BERKELEY -- UC Berkeley police with the help of the FBI and Alameda County Sheriff's deputies raided a cooperative in Berkeley on Wednesday, seizing 14 computers. "We were investigating threatening e-mails we tracked to computers there," said UC Berkeley spokesman Robert Sanders. "The details of...
- Research articles 2008-08-27
- Siege protest at India's Nano car plant
- SINGUR, India AFP — About 40,000 protesters on Sunday surrounded the Indian factory slated to produce the world's cheapest car, alleging land for the site was forcibly taken from local farmers, police said. Demonstrators blocked main roads near the plant at Singur, 35 kilometres (20 miles) northwest of the...
- Research articles 2008-08-24
- Activists determined to break Gaza blockade despite threats
- LARNACA, Cyprus AFP — Activists said Wednesday they were determined to break the Israeli blockade of the poverty-stricken Gaza Strip by boat despite receiving death threats. "I've been called personally 17 times and asked how and when I would like to die," Palestinian activist Osama Qashoo told AFP. ...
- Research articles 2008-08-20
- Violent animal rights activists target UC scientists
- Razor blades in the mail. Leafleting at children's soccer games. Broadcasting researchers' home addresses. And in Santa Cruz last week, firebombing scientists' home and cars. Borrowing strategies used by anti-abortion extremists, some radical animal rights activists are increasingly taking their rage to scientists' doorsteps. That has forced universities...
- Research articles 2008-08-07
- Gaza activists fear Israeli sabotage of anti-siege bid
- NICOSIA AFP — Activists who plan to break the blockade of the poverty-stricken Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip from the sea said on Monday they fear Israel may try to scupper the venture. Two sailing boats carrying 40 activists are set to sail from Cyprus 370 kilometres (230...
- Research articles 2008-08-04
- Activists march against HIV 'stigma' before Mexico AIDS summit
- MEXICO CITY AFP — Several thousand brightly-dressed activists marched through Mexico City on Saturday protesting discrimination against those with the HIV virus ahead of the first world AIDS conference in Latin America. A gay Mexican wrestler in a mask and tights, women dressed up as skeletons, African campaigners in...
- Research articles 2008-08-02
- S.Korea activists launch US beef boycott
- SEOUL AFP — South Korean activists on Thursday launched a nationwide campaign to boycott US beef as President Lee Myung-Bak issued a fresh warning against violent protests. At least four protest groups including two national women's associations denounced the government for allowing the distribution of US beef despite unabated...
- Research articles 2008-07-03
- Beirut's architectural heritage erased by modern towers
- BEIRUT AFP — The Ottoman-style mansions, with Venetian windows, arches and lavish gardens that once epitomised Beirut are being levelled one after the other as high-rises mushroom across the capital. "Now everyone is looking for towers, because they realise that above the tenth floor you can see the sea,"...
- Research articles 2008-06-28
- First Greek gay marriages spark judicial battle
- ATHENS AFP — A heated debate on gay rights opened in Greece on Tuesday hours after the country's first same-sex civil marriages were held on the small Aegean island of Tilos, sparking an immediate judicial reaction. Greek Justice Minister Sotiris Hatzigakis quickly declared the marriages "non-existent" and accused the...
- Research articles 2008-06-03
- Kangaroo cull begins in Australia: animal welfare group
- SYDNEY AFP — A controversial kangaroo cull began at an Australian military site in the national capital Canberra Monday, an animal welfare group said. The RSPCA said its inspectors had confirmed the killings were being carried out in accordance with appropriate guidelines. "Our inspectors were on site this...
- Research articles 2008-05-19
- Australian activists urge Paul McCartney to save kangaroos
- SYDNEY AFP — Former Beatle Paul McCartney will be asked to to help save hundreds of kangaroos from being killed in Australia, animal rights activists said Monday. The campaigners are hoping the multi-millionaire star, who is a member of an animal rights group that has opposed the cull, will...
- Research articles 2008-05-18
- Sarkozy praise for Tunisian rights 'progress' sparks outrage
- PARIS AFP — French President Nicolas Sarkozy's remark that "the sphere of liberties" in Tunisia is improving sparked outrage Tuesday among human rights groups and the Socialist opposition in France who accuse the North African state of torturing dissidents and blocking press freedoms. "His unacceptable declaration has led him...
- Research articles 2008-04-29
- Syrian rights watchdog says activist arrested
- DAMASCUS AFP — A Syrian human rights activist was arrested last month in Damascus after writing articles critical of the government, the National Organisation for Human Rights in Syria NOHRS said on Thursday. "Badih Dak al-Bab was summoned by the military security services on March 2 in Damascus. NOHRS...
- Research articles 2008-04-03
- New arrests as Yemen government and socialists trade charges
- SANAA AFP — Yemeni authorities arrested more activists in the south on Thursday as they traded charges with the southern-based Yemen Socialist Party YSP over protests that led to deadly clashes with security forces. Two security men and a civilian were injured during arrests in the province of Lahj,...
- Research articles 2008-04-03
- Dozens arrested in Yemen after protests: relatives
- SANAA AFP — Dozens of people were arrested on Tuesday in southern Yemen, including opposition politicians, after two days of protests by local residents refused entry into the army, relatives said. They said three politicians from the Yemen Socialist Party YSP, the ruling party in former south Yemen, were...
- Research articles 2008-04-01
- Release of Libyan Prisoner Fathi El-Jahmi.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-1 April 2008-US Department of State: Release of Libyan Prisoner Fathi El-JahmiC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:31032008 Press Statement Tom Casey, Deputy Spokesman Washington, DC -- We urge the Libyan government to fulfill their promise to release without condition...
- Research articles 2008-04-01
- Arise! Various ways in which indigenous people are fighting back
- Zapatistas and others No-one can accuse Mexico's indigenous activists of lacking imagination. These women from the '400 Pueblos' movement were difficult to ignore when, in May 2006, they donned masks of the then President Vicente Fox and marched naked through central Mexico to draw attention to a land conflict...
- Research articles 2008-04-01
- Bhopal tragedy survivors reach Delhi after 37-day protest march
- NEW DELHI AFP — Fifty survivors and victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak arrived in New Delhi on Friday after a 37-day march and demanded to meet the premier to seek a clean-up of toxic waste at the site. It was the second such 800-kilometre (500 mile) trek...
- Research articles 2008-03-28
- Activists vow to block kangaroo cull in Australia
- SYDNEY AFP — Australian animal rights activists vowed Wednesday to prevent the planned killing of more than 400 kangaroos on defence department land after the government refused to intervene. "We are going to blockade the gates 24 hours a day from Saturday so they can't get in and kill...
- Research articles 2008-03-12
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