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Liz Szabo and JoNel Aleccia and Mark Zdechlik, Minnesota Public Radio The high prices Americans pay for generic drugs may have been cooked up by pharmaceutical salespeople on golf courses, at a New Jersey steakhouse or over martinis at a “Girls Nights Out” in Minnesota. Details emerging from an

Environment , Forests , Human Rights / 12/23/2016

Peru: Last female speaker of indigenous Amazonian language murdered

The last female speaker of the Resígaro language has been murdered in Peru. Her body was found decapitated at her home in the Amazon rainforest. Rosa Andrade, 67, lived with the Ocaina tribe. Her father was Ocaina and her mother Resígaro. The Ocaina and Resígaro tribes were victims of the rubber

Business , Environment , Human Rights , Water / 12/01/2016

Indian Court Stops Water to Coke, Pepsi Plants in Tamil Nadu

An Indian High Court has ordered that water from the river Tamirabarani in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu must not be diverted to Coca-Cola and Pepsi producing plants in Gangaikondan due to the severe water shortages in the area. The Madras High Court passed the interim injunction disallowing

Corruption , Gender , Human Rights , Sanitation , SDGs , Sustainable Development , Water / 11/23/2016

Swachh Bharat: It’s Time To Stop Sweeping Accountability Aside

Amitangshu Acharya and Depinder Kapur Accounting for toilets on paper is a poor substitute to accountability. By enabling the latter, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan can make a real difference In February 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was replying to the Lok Sabha debate on the president’s address.

Business , Environment , Forests , Human Rights , Sustainable Development / 11/17/2016

Incredible new photos of uncontacted Amazon tribe – that could be wiped out

Brazilian government agents are charged with protecting the Yanomami territory. But they are currently facing severe budget cuts amid politicians’ plans to drastically weaken indigenous land protection and rights. Extraordinary new aerial photos show a contemporary uncontacted tribal community est

Business , Corruption , Environment , Forests , Human Rights / 11/02/2016

Billionaire’s elephant-hunting safaris implicated in “Pygmy” abuses

Survival International has learned that an elephant-hunting safari operation jointly owned by a French billionaire has been implicated in human rights abuses against local Baka “Pygmies” and their neighbors, including illegal evictions and torture. The operation is based in two “protected area

Data & Reports , Environment , Featured , Health , Human Rights , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 09/28/2016

Most people breathe in polluted air: WHO

A new WHO air quality model confirms that 92% of the world’s population lives in places where air quality levels exceed WHO limits “The new WHO model shows countries where the air pollution danger spots are, and provides a baseline for monitoring progress in combating it,” says Dr Flav

Data & Reports , Education , Featured , Human Rights , Migration / 09/16/2016

UNHCR reports crisis in refugee education

The UN Refugee Agency says more than half of the 6 million school-age children under its mandate have no school to go to Some 1.75 million refugee children are not in primary school and 1.95 million refugee adolescents are not in secondary school, the report found. Refugees are five times more likel

Environment , Featured , Forests , Human Rights / 09/14/2016

Paraguay Government defies order to protect un-contacted tribe

The Paraguayan government has failed to act to protect a group of uncontacted tribal people, despite having been ordered to do so in February of this year. Six months ago the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights demanded that the government stop the deforestation of the Chaco, which suffers the

Food , Human Rights , Sustainable Development , Water / 09/14/2016

NGO focus: Work of ASODECOM, Burundi

Contra Nocdendi International/NGO partner ASODECOM is a civil society organisation in Burundi that engages in human rights and development issues through programs, advice and advocacy. A significant part of our work done here at Contra Nocendi International is done in collaboration with partner

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