Articles by Bianca Jagger
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Deadly Sins in the Brazilian Amazon
Bianca Jagger - Reader Supported News,
22 Apr 2013
The trampling of indigenous rights, military force used against protesters, impunity, megadams and environmental destruction. The controversial Belo Monte Dam, which is under construction on the Xingu River, is roughly twenty percent completed. It will displace over 20,000 people, gravely endanger the survival of indigenous peoples and local communities and cause irreparable environmental damage to the Brazilian Amazon.
→ read full articleWhy Tibet Matters
Bianca Jagger - Reader Supported News,
21 May 2012
His Holiness the Dalai Lama is in London today [14 May 2012] to receive the Templeton Prize in recognition of his outstanding achievements and spiritual wisdom. Since Feb 2009, 35 Tibetans have sacrificed themselves, in an act of desperation, which emerges from the anguish of oppression. Tibetans who have self-immolated include monks, nuns, a 19-year old female student, a widowed mother of four, and a Tibetan reincarnate lama in his forties.
→ read full articleIndia: Undermining Human Rights in the Name of Development
Bianca Jagger – Common Dreams,
16 Apr 2012
When I arrived at Biju Patnaik Airport, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, I was struck by a billboard above the luggage carousel: “Mining happiness for the people of Orissa – Vedanta.” What cruel irony. The poster should have read instead, “Undermining happiness for the people of Orissa.” The opening of an aluminum refinery in Lanjigarh, in south-west Orissa in eastern India, by the Vedanta Aluminum Limited (VAL), a subsidiary of British based mining group, Vedanta Resources plc, has brought nothing but misery, disease and impoverishment to the Kondh communities of the area.
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