Tag Archives: protection

Human trafficking victims tell of drug factory ordeal

Call to protect those forced into crime after being held prisoner on UK cannabis farms Police examine a cannabis factory after a raid in Leyton, London. Some victims of human trafficking are put to work in such factories and can end up in jail. Photograph: David Levene In her cramped bedsit in a northern English […]

CIA admits full Monitoring of Facebook

One use that’s confirmed, however, is the manipulation of social media through the use of fake online “personas” managed by the military. Recently the US Air Force had solicited private sector vendors for something called “persona management software.” Such a technology would allow single individuals to command virtual armies of fake, digital “people” across numerous […]

New German Film Blasts Green Climate Movement…”Climate Protection = Environmental Crimes”

This week’s print edition of FOCUS includes an interview with the producer of a new environmental film to be shown in German cinemas beginning in January: Climate Crimes – Environmental crimes in the name of climate protection. It will premiere soon in Vienna. If you are one of the skeptics, much of the film probably will […]

International Human Rights Day Celebrated in Sierra Leone

Every year the celebration of International Human Rights day observed on 10th December provides the opportunity to raise global awareness on human rights issues. As a national human rights institution, the Human Rights Commission Sierra Leone (HRCSL) in collaboration with its local and international partners, joined hands to celebrates this day with the theme ‘Inclusion […]

Tibet’s environment under threat

Dear supporter The Tibetan plateau is a unique and fragile environment which houses the third largest store of water on the planet. But Tibetans who dare to speak up for the protection of the environment are being silenced. Some are tortured and locked away for many years. Karma Samdrup (right) is a renowned Tibetan environmentalist […]