Showing posts with label refugee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label refugee. Show all posts

25 December 2011

Mothers Rise Against Nuclear Power

Japan’s nuclear power industry, which once ignored opposition, now finds its existence threatened by women angered by official opaqueness on radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after it was struck by an earthquake- driven tsunami on Mar. 11

By Suvendrini Kakuchi | Inter-Press Service | Dec 22, 2011

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10 December 2011

"Opposition to Restitution of Land Not Surprising"

"I find it extremely painful to see that there are people in Colombia trying once again to deceive" people displaced from their land, just when "they have hope of being recognised and compensated," said Swedish diplomat Anders Kompass on a visit to this country to support rural victims of the civil war

Constanza Vieira | IPS | December 10, 2011
Anders Kompass on a visit to Bogotá to support the victims of forced displacement. / Credit:Constanza Vieira/IPS  Anders Kompass on a visit to Bogotá to support the victims of forced displacement. Credit: Constanza Vieira/IPS

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