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EcoWellness: Race and hazardous waste
By Christine dell’amore, UPI
March 22, 2007

WASHINGTON, March 22 (UPI) — Twenty years after a landmark study proved a link between hazardous-waste sites and minority neighborhoods, the phenomenon has only settled deeper into U.S. towns and cities, a new report says.

What’s more, the racial differences are much greater than previously thought, according to “Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty,” a preliminary anniversary report released today. The full report will be made public on April 22, Earth Day.

The updated report found more than 9 million Americans live in neighborhoods within about 2 miles of the 413 commercial …

The Pacific region has long been a favourite target of gene hunters, unethical bio-researchers and ‘patent bottom trawlers’ looking to profit from its unique flora, fauna - and human beings.

In the last few years, a number of disconcerting events have occurred in the Pacific Islands. Among them, T-Cells from the Hagahai Tribe in Papua New Guinea were illegally obtained against the will and traditions of the Hagahai - which can now be purchased on the internet for 216 Dollars.

Aswell, in 2002 Cook Islanders were almost subjects of an experiment to transplant pig parts into humans. The author of the article …

Failed: 20 Years of Sustainable Development Effort
International Institute for Environment and Development
http://www.iied.org

Sustainable development is dead! Long live sustainable development!

A 20-year international effort to put the planet on a path to sustainable development has been woefully inadequate and will need a radical rethink if it is to achieve its aims, says a report published today by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).

The report was written by Steve Bass, a senior fellow at IIED and former chief environment advisor at the UK government’s Department for International Development. It is being released to mark the 20th anniversary of the influential …

Land and Natural Resource Alienation in Cambodia
www.focusweb.org
March 8. 2007

Land is the repository of memory and keeps traces of the past in the absence of a strong written tradition. It is perceived as an open book from which anyone can read and learn about local history: place names, old roads, legends and stories attached to places. For local people, bulldozing the landscape is seen as erasing their history, and disturbing social organisations and traditions - Shalmali Guttal, Focus on the Global South, December, 2006.

Ask any Cambodian what s/he considers the foundation of society and life in Cambodia and the answer …

Discriminatory policies of CANADA
Excerpts from CERD Committee
from the First Peoples Human Rights Coalition

In late February, the policies and actions of the government of Canada were scrutinized in Geneva by the Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). The Committee expressed a number of serious concerns. Read the full report (doc)

We have prepared EXCERPTS (in Spanish and in English) from the concluding observations of the CERD Committee regarding the human rights of Indigenous peoples…

COMMITTEE FOR THE ELIMINATION
OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
Seventieth session …

A step towards accountability
First Peoples Human Rights Coalition
March 10, 2007

In February, the Western Shoshone exercised their right to represent themselves on an international level, by submitting a shadow report [attached] to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in Geneva. Several other articulate Indigenous groups also submitted reports to the Committee, all regarding human rights responsibilities of the government of Canada.

The Western Shoshone report emphasized that the actions and policies of transnational corporations registered in Canada were causing adverse effects on the human rights of the Western Shoshone in the United States, as well as …

Supporting Genocide In West Papua
from www.heathlander.wordpress.com
March 4, 2007

note by Ahni - the following is slightly skimmed-down version of the original article, which can be found here.

“Since Indonesia gained control of West Papua, the West Papuan people have suffered persistent and horrible abuses at the hands of the government. The Indonesian military and security forces have engaged in widespread violence and extrajudicial killings in West Papua. They have subjected Papuan men and women to acts of torture, disappearance, rape, and sexual violence, thus causing serious bodily and mental harm. Systematic resource exploitation, the destruction of Papuan resources and …