Aug 16 Watch Texas Employs Aerial Spraying to Combat West Nile Virus Emergency Texas Employs Aerial Spraying to Combat West Nile Virus Emergency… Continue watching
Aug 16 5 Famous Asylum Seekers By Larisa Epatko In addition to Julian Assange, these other people have sought asylum for various reasons over the years: Sitting Bull, Roman Polanski, Chen Guangcheng and Hannah Arendt. Continue reading
Aug 16 5 Notable Asylum-Seekers Julian Assange, granted asylum from Ecuador on Thursday, is not the only famous asylum-seeker. We look at four more in the above slide show. Sweden is seeking Assange's extradition to answer for accusations of sexual assault. Assange angered… Continue reading
Aug 16 Watch U.K. Threatens Ecuador’s Diplomatic Status for Protecting Julian Assange For the more than 50 days, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has taken refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. But British officials are determined to extradite Assange to Sweden, where he faces charges of rape and sexual assault. Independent Television… Continue watching
Aug 16 Watch News Wrap: South African Police Fire On Miners During Labor Strikes In other news Thursday, nearly a week of labor violence in South Africa intensified as police fired on striking platinum miners, killing as many as 18 workers. Also, officials in Congo confirmed that a mining landslide killed at least 60… Continue watching
Aug 15 Watch Seeing Through the Fog of War: Monitoring Human Rights Abuses Via Satellite Seeing Through the Fog of War: Monitoring Human Rights Abuses Via Satellite… Continue watching
Aug 15 Watch Beekeepers Feel the Sting of Climate Change Beekeepers Feel the Sting of Climate Change… Continue watching
Aug 15 Using Satellite Imagery to Document Destruction in Syria By Larisa Epatko Add Syria to the list of places where human rights organizations are using commercially available satellite imagery to document destruction during conflict. Continue reading
Aug 15 Satellite Images from Aleppo, Syria, from July-August 2012 By Larisa Epatko Amnesty International is using satellite imagery from DigitalGlobe to track the destruction from fighting between rebels and government forces in and around Aleppo, Syria. Continue reading
Aug 15 Watch U.N. Human Rights Monitor Accuses Assad’s Troops, Rebels of War Crimes The Syrian town of Azaz suffered government air strikes that reportedly left 30 dead. And residents insist that the bombs were targeting civilians, not rebel forces. Meanwhile, U.N. human rights monitors declared that both Syrian troops and rebels have committed… Continue watching