According to the Daily Telegraph, ‘Animal testing experiments kill one animal every hour’, one animal is killed in NSW every hour for laboratory testing. For a period of 12 months, 8813 animals, including endangered ones have perished this way.
In an Amnesty International report, ‘Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta’, the human rights organisation documented the previous and ongoing human rights violations perpetuated by the government and the oil corporations. This matter has recently resurfaced due to a landmark lawsuit in which an oil corporation, Shell, agreed to pay a $15.5 million dollar settlement to the relatives of the deceased plaintiffs as a humanitarian gesture though it continues to deny its complicit involvement in the execution of Nigerian environmental activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others.
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66% of Singaporean respondents in a Transparency International poll indicated that the business and private sector is the most affected by corruption. In comparison, only 10% and 8% respectively felt that political parties and the media are less corrupted while the parliament and judiciary is perceived to be the least corrupted sectors.
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Normally, I wouldn’t post such images online but I thought this is so disturbing that it’s worth reading. Found this on Sydney Morning Herald… read more…
According to the 2008 Global Trends: Refugees, Asylum- seekers, returnees, internally-displacd and stateless persons, there are 42 million forcibly displaced people globally by the end of 2008. This includes 15.2 million refugees, 827,000 asylum seekers (pending cases) and 26 million internally displaced persons (IDPs).
