UK government funding environment-wrecking extractive projects with histories of human rights abuse
The UK government recently came under scrutiny for using development aid to fund projects which have violated the human rights ...
Tag: Colonialism
Israeli soldiers shot Palestinian journalist Momen Samreen in the head while he was doing his job
Israeli forces shot Palestinian journalist Momen Samreen in the head with a live round on Wednesday 7 June. Soldiers also ...
Guardian has “Mr Bean moment” with Atkinson electric vehicle article
The Guardian has had a Mr Bean moment over electric cars on 3 June. British actor and petrolhead Rowan Atkinson ...
Global North vision for climate loss and damage fund will further lock Global South into unjust debt crisis
At the second round of talks to design a loss and damage fund for climate-fuelled extreme weather, Global North nations ...
90% of extreme weather deaths occurred in the Global South, as Global North dodges accountability
New figures revealed that 90% of extreme weather deaths between 1970 and 2021 have happened in the Global South. A ...
Three internationalists died defending Bakhmut, here’s why they joined the struggle against Russia’s invasion
Finbar Cafferkey, Dmytro Petrov, and Cooper Andrews were revolutionaries from Ireland, Russia, and the US. All three of them joined ...
The G7 summit’s renewed backing of public financing for fossil gas is nothing short of energy colonialism
Energy colonialism was on full display at the latest meeting between seven of the world's richest nations. Recently, the Group of ...
Indigenous activists take their climate fight to the ‘belly of the beast’
Between 10 and 17 May, members of the Indigenous Mapuche community and a human rights defender (HRD) from Neuquén in ...
Indigenous Mapuche travel to Europe to highlight impacts of fracking megaproject
Representatives of the Indigenous Mapuche community, along with a Human Rights Defender (HRD) from Neuquén in Argentina, are touring Europe ...
Eight years since Sheku Bayoh died at police hands and nothing has changed – as one video shows
It's eight years since Sheku Bayoh died at the hands of police in Scotland. The public inquiry into his death ...
U’wa nation’s fight at international tribunal could set a precedent for Indigenous rights
This article follows a previous report by the Canary on a significant case for Indigenous rights brought by the U'wa Indigenous ...
UK government’s “green day” electric car policies will sacrifice the Global South for transition minerals
The UK government’s electric vehicle expansion plans risk escalating human rights abuses in the Global South for transition minerals. On ...
Jeremy Vine’s ‘brain dribbles out of his ears’ as he exposes his own racism live on TV
On Friday 31 March, former BBC host and now C5 presenter Jeremy Vine did little to dispel the notion that ...
Homophobia in Uganda is a horrifying demonstration of colonialism and evangelism at work
Last week, on 21 March, Uganda's parliament passed draconian homophobic and anti-LGBT+ legislation. MP Fox Odoi-Oywelowo warned that this would ...
Banning big game imports is not colonialism – trophy hunting is
The House of Commons has today passed a bill which would ban imports of hunting trophies from endangered and at-risk ...
UK climate aid funding corporate colonialism in the Global South
This is the fourth part of a five-part investigation into how UK government climate finance aid is grabbing land, displacing ...
Just when you thought Britain couldn’t get any more racist, the Tories bring the Illegal Migration Bill
Rishi Sunak has announced that refugees arriving into the UK by small boats will be permanently banned from re-entering the ...
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