Monthly Archive: April 2016
Pentagon announces no charges for Kunduz hospital bombers, another MSF facility targeted in Aleppo International experts release final report on 43 missing students before leaving Mexico Drought and climate change contributing to earlier grape...
A shaky cease fire agreement in Syria has all but collapsed as airstrikes resumed this week. In Aleppo, Friday prayers were cancelled after morning attacks, following an uptick in violence earlier in the week....
Environmentalists rate Nigeria’s Niger Delta as one of the most polluted oil producing regions in the world. For more than fifty years, frequent oil spills have plagued the area, mainly from Western oil companies’...
Human rights and legal experts are calling on Canada to conduct an overhaul of its immigration detention system. The demand comes after two immigrants died in Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) detention last month....
Severe droughts attributed to El Niño are affecting areas far flung around the world; from India to Venezuela to Namibia. In developing nations, major droughts devastate domestic agriculture and compromise food sovereignty. In wealthier...
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, still the world’s worst nuclear accident. An explosion and fire in the Chernobyl 4th reactor released a radiation plume 400 times more radioactive than the Hiroshima...
All photos by Filip Warwick. Hear/read his accompanying radio report here. Click on any thumbnail image to launch slideshow.
A group of international experts has presented its final report on one of Mexico’s most notorious human rights crimes in recent years. The government-contracted outside investigators released their findings just before their official mandate...
President Obama wrapped up two days in Germany where he announced the largest expansion of U.S. ground troops in Syria since the civil war there began. Obama said Monday that the Pentagon will dispatch...
April 24th marked the beginning of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Often referred to as Red Sunday, 101 years ago Ottoman officials rounded up hundreds of Armenian intellectuals in what was then Constantinople, now Istanbul. Most...