Human Rights

Liverpool City Council allows electronic arms fair to take place at the Exhibition Centre this October: expect protests.

Meet the mining giant that talks big on responsibility, but has a long way to go to meet its own hype.

Deforestation-free businesses and finance should be new norm in UK.

Beef - and soya for beef - for the UK market drives biodiversity collapse, deforestation and other habitat loss. As does chocolate.

'At the time of filming, 100 percent of the youth in Australia's Alice Springs detention centres were Aboriginal.'

Damning UN investigation condemns WWF flagship project in Congo and reveals massive scale of abuse.

The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) said UK is failing to protect children from "harmful" junk food marketing.

To ‘protest’ is not just to challenge power, but also ‘to make a pledge, a solemn declaration’ and to drive change.

Anti-fracking campaigners could face jail for alleged breach of Cuadrilla injunction.

The more we learn about pollution and its impact on human health and nature, the more we must see stopping pollution as an ethical imperative for all.

Tories accused of backtracking on human rights by Amnesty International as death penalty rate rises around the world.

Thousands of children face fines from schools for striking for climate action - but protest is a human right.

Indigenous communities fear water essential to life is becoming contaminated by the nearby ilmenite mine.

Simon Roscoe Blevins, Richards Roberts and Richard Loizou will be released from prison later today.

Breakthrough victory for climate litigators as appeal court upholds constitutional duty to protect citizens from climate change.

The Ecuadorian government is in the process of auctioning off eight million acres of largely virgin rainforest to oil companies.

Campaigners assembled outside the High Court to fight an injunction sought by an oil and gas company to impose 'draconian' restrictions on protesters.

Colombia has recognised the autonomy of indigenous communities across the Amazon through a new decree - described as the most important step for Amazon indigenous rights in 30 years. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports

Community leaders from Colombia, the Philippines and Uganda have been in London challenging attendees of the Mines and Money Conference. HANNIBAL RHOADES, TATIANA GARAVITO and SEBASTIAN ORDONEZ report.

President Santos of Colombia has won awards for championing peace and biodiversity. He was in London recently to receive the Kew International Medal, the first head of state to be awarded the honour by the Royal Botanical Gardens (RGB) Kew. But not everyone is impressed, reports CATHERINE EARLY.

Massacres like that reported to have taken place recently in the Amazon are sadly neither new nor uncommon. For uncontacted tribal peoples, the colonial era continues, as bandits and extractive industries, abetted by a corrupt government, inflict violence and plunder on them. LEWIS EVANS puts this brutality into context, and examines potential solutions.

On World Day of Indigenous Resistance, Wayúu woman ANGELICA ORITZ shares her experience as a human rights defender, living and fighting for the future of her community in the shadow of the largest opencast mine in Colombia