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Video: “Bangladeshi Workers Pay Price for West’s Cheap Clothes” Bangladesh has been a country of wiggle room for Western retailers looking to cut costs, however, the April 24 collapse of eight story Rana Plaza has turned Bangladesh into [...]
Accidental Foreigners: America’s Forgotten Citizens by Cindy Carcamo for Equal Voice News. For more stories and current news, please visit Equal Voice News. SAN JOSE CALDERAS, Guatemala — Jeidy knows she’s different. The 5-year-old with dark eyes and an impish smile toys [...]
The True Cost of Food: Immigration and Agriculture Workers by Brad Wong for Equal Voice News. For more stories and current news, please visit Equal Voice News. BELLINGHAM, Wash. – When Modesto Hernandez, 35, walks these days, he [...]
On January 9, 2013, in otherwise quiet Highland Township in Elk County, Pennsylvania, officials signed a community rights bill into law stopping the deposit of fracking waste within the township. Seneca Resources, the drilling and fracking arm of National Fuel Gas of Williamsville, N.Y., had planned to inject its “production fluids” (oil and gas drilling and fracking waste) into an injection well about 2,200 feet from Crystal Springs — a main source of water for James City — according to the Kane Republican. Injection wells have a history, both long and recent, of failing to contain waste and increasing the risk of exposure to drinking water supplies. So, residents of Highland Township asked their municipal officials to say “No.” A Community & Environmental Rights Movement Highland Township is the latest on a list of over 140 other communities that have said ‘no’ to factory farms, waste incinerators, corporate water withdrawals, and now fracking by passing rights-based ordinances. Marsha Buhl, president of the Highland Township Recreation Association, collected signatures from more than 230 township residents in order to ban the injection well.
Our Land by Laurel Dammann for Public Herald The following is a look at terms from Public Herald’s feature length documentary Triple Divide that focusses on hydraulic fracturing in Pennsylvania. Hydraulic Fracturing, or “fracking,” is the process of extracting [...]
THE FARMER AND POLITICIAN, WHO IS BEHIND THE CRIMES? Who are the farmers investigated for involvement in the threats to Nilcilene by Ana Spider for Publica There are two very names in the accounts of violence suffered by producers [...]
Turning the population tide in the Philippines By Sam Eaton for CIR This story also appeared on PBS NEWSHOUR and American Public Media’s Marketplace. The Philippines’ swelling population is causing fishing villages to embrace birth control for the [...]
Analysis: Business corporate veil hides behind on human rights abuse claims (TRANSLATED) by Nick Mathiason for The Bureau of Investigative Journalism People living in the Niger Delta where land and rivers are indelibly polluted after decades of oil extraction have long [...]
Destino Final by Giancarlo Ceraudo from NOOR on Vimeo. “Destino Final” is a photographic and investigative journalistic that uncovers the crimes committed by the armed forces during the Argentinean dictatorship. Through painstaking research and human rights investigation “Destino [...]
Protecting Whistleblowers: Richard Nixon? by James Sandler & Carrie Ching a CIR web exclusive video When he was a young U.S. Senator, Richard Nixon stepped forward as one of the great champions of whistleblower rights. History would eventually [...]