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      There Are No Human Rights on a Dead Planet

      There Are No Human Rights on a Dead Planet

      Kumi Naidoo
      Apr 20, 2014

      Last week, I spoke at the International Association of Democratic Lawyers congress in Brussels. In the audience there were over 500 hundred progressive lawyers from over 50 countries. Many of these lawyers focus on human rights issues. I called on the lawyers attending the congress to join me in campaigning for environmental protection and protecting environmental human rights defenders. Below is a summary of my remarks.

      Work is getting tougher and tougher for lawyers worldwide, especially those working on human rights issues, including the lawyers representing environmentalists. We at Greenpeace can confirm this based on our work around the world and in our collaboration with big and small NGOs and individual activists fighting on the frontlines, and on the coalface, of environment destruction.

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      Leaked YouTube Tape: Turkey Plotting Pretext for War With Syria?

      Newswire Editor
      Mar 31, 2014

      While there was extensive media coverage of the Turkish government cutting off YouTube late last week, just prior to that, there was a posting on YouTube of an apparently leaked tape of Turkish government officials plotting a pretext for war with Syria that has received relatively little attention.

      Some exceptions include: Reuters "Turkey Calls Syria Security Leak 'Villainous,' Blocks YouTube" and USA Today: "Turkey Blocks YouTube After Audio Recording Leaked," which reported: "An audio recording leaked on YouTube appears to reveal that top Turkey officials were plotting to fake an attack against their own country as an excuse to wage war on [Syria].

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      SULONG: Philippines Power Shifting post Super Typhoon Haiyan

      Sulong! Power Shift Pilipinas national convergence takes on the Philippine climate crisis

      Newswire Editor
      Mar 28, 2014

      Over 100 youth and grassroots advocates from 50 organizations are participating in Sulong! Power Shift Pilipinas national convergence to confront the climate crisis less than 6 months since the devastation from Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda).[1]

      This comes just two days before the release of the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) expected to highlight the fact that society is vastly underprepared to deal with the increased risks posed by climate change impacts while the dangers of a warming planet are immediate and very human.

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