An African migrant is lowered down from a border fence by a Spanish Civil Guard as fellow migrants assist, at the border between Morocco and Spain’s north African enclave of Melilla during the latest attempt to cross into Spanish territory, April 3, 2014. Spain has more than doubled the strength of security forces at Melilla, after about 500 people stormed its fences in the biggest border rush for years earlier this month. Immigrants from all over Africa regularly dare the razor-wire fences of Spanish enclaves Ceuta and Melilla, which are surrounded by Moroccan territory and sea.NO NO NO Deportations WELCOME immigration!
EU holds crisis talks as bodies of drowned migrants arrive in Malta. European governments, divided over how to respond to migrant boat tragedies, convene as reports suggest death toll from weekend capsizing in Mediterranean could reach 950: here.
HOW many more desperate people have to drown in the Mediterranean before the European Union and its member states rethink their callous sink-or-swim policy towards refugees?
Around 3,500 men, women and children perished last year and the weekend tragedy has pushed this year’s total up to half that already and we’re still in April.
The EU ended its Mare Nostrum rescue operation last October after some states claimed in was unaffordable.
Each week at least two people are being killed for taking a stand against environmental destruction. Some are shot by police during protests, others gunned down by hired assassins. As companies go in search of new land to exploit, increasingly people are paying the ultimate price for standing in their way.
We found that at least 116 environmental activists were murdered in 2014 – that’s almost double the number of journalists killed in the same period. A shocking 40 % of victims were indigenous, with most people dying amid disputes over hydropower, mining and agri-business. Nearly three-quarters of the deaths we found information on were in Central and South America.
Globally, it’s likely that the true death toll is higher. Many of the murders we know about occurred in remote villages or deep within the jungle, where communities lack access to communications and the media. It’s likely many more killings are escaping public records.
As well as documenting fatalities, How Many More? analyses global trends in violence and intimidation, with testimony from activists who have suffered threats, attacks, and criminalization for standing in the way of so-called ‘development’. In a disturbing trend some are even being tried as terrorists, portrayed as enemies of the state.
We also shone a spotlight on Honduras, the most dangerous country per capita to be an environmental activist for the last five years, with 101 deaths between 2010 and 2014.
They follow me. They threaten to kill me, to kidnap me, they threaten my family. That is what we face. – Berta Cáceres, a Honduran activist and winner of the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize.
The case of Berta Cáceres is emblematic of the systematic targeting of environmental defenders in Honduras. Since 2013, three of her colleagues have been killed for resisting the Agua Zarca hydro-dam on the Gualcarque River, which threatens to cut off a vital water source for hundreds of indigenous Lenca people.
Fabricated criminal charges have been filed against her, and two of her children have left Honduras out of concerns for their safety.
The true authors of these crimes – a powerful nexus of corporate and state interests – are escaping unpunished.
These three indigenous Tolupán leaders were killed by gunmen attacking an anti-mining protest in northern Honduras. They had received death threats warning them to desist from their efforts to protect the environment.
We aren’t going to give up the struggle to keep our natural resources clean and in the hands of the community. There are those who want easy money by tearing up the land, contaminating the water.
We have been here respecting the earth that gives us our food and we intend to stay here fighting for our right to feed ourselves. – Member of indigenous Tolupán group from Locomapa.
Global Witness is calling on governments and the international community to monitor, investigate and punish these crimes, and for Honduras to address abuses in the upcoming review of its human rights record at the UN Human Rights Council.forest defenders José and Maria. ‘They gunned them down and cut off their ears” http://wp.me/pIJl9-Gl
Berta Cáceres was awarded the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize for defending the environment at great personal cost. Hear about her work in the video below.
Por Contrainfos.. (1) Aniversario, (2) Alerta en Yarmouk (3) Multan a feministas (4) Bomberos y pobreza energética (5) Autogestión en Kan Pasqual (6) Resumen de conflictos desde 2013 (7) Homenaje a minero inmolado (8) Feria de la Yunta https://youtu.be/lY5wg90Xchk
Benvinguts al contrainfos número….. 100!
1. Avui a la Plaça del Sol
Okupem les Ones fa 12 anys amb latele.cat. Les paelles en marxa a la plaça del Sol.
2. Camp Refugiats Yarmouk
I ara sí, la primera notícia d´aquest contrainfos la dediquen a la terrible situación que viu el barrí palestí de Yarmouk, assetjat per la guerra i en situación d´emergència humanitària. Veiem doncs un resum que ha preparar una companya.
‘Operation Decisive Storm’ – the Pentagon-style House of Saud glorifying of its ghastly ‘Bomb Yemen’ show – could be summed up in a single paragraph.
The wealthiest Arab nation – the House of Saud petro-hacienda – supported by other GCC petro-rackets and also the wealthy “West”, has launched an – illegal – bombing/war/kinetic operation against the poorest Arab nation in the name of “democracy.”
Sieso de Jaca és un poble okupat a Huesca , on els dies 14 i 15 de febrer es desenvolupà unes jornades de treball comú per fer llenya. A la cita hi van assistir diferents col.lectivitats de Catalunya, invitades per l´ocasió. https://colectivosrurales.wordpress.com/
La primavera va llegando a Sieso de Ja ! Se nota como la temperatura va aumentando, tanto en el ambiente, como en la tierra. Pero también se nota que cada vez tenemos más cosas por hacer… ufff, pero las atacamos con ganas!! Huertas, muros, construcción, vigas, vallas y un largo etcetera de tareas que van llenando nuestros días.
Pero también anuncia la primavera la cantidad de animales, insectos y plantas que ya se dejan ver. Las aves migratorias, como las grullas, arman jaleo a su paso. O aquellas que se quedan por aquí, como una pareja…
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