January 2015 – Page 5 – Upside Down World

Torture Reports: Brazil and the United States Release Reports Documenting Systematic Human Rights Abuses

January 2, 2015 Kara Rochelle Martinez 0

One day after the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released its Executive Summary of the CIA’s detention and interrogation program exposing a policy of torture applied in the War on Terror, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff unveiled her country’s investigatory National Truth Commission Report, identifying human rights atrocities committed in Brazil between 1946 and 1988. […]

Peruvian Communities Reject COP 20 and Build the Movement of the People for El Buen Vivir

January 2, 2015 Lynda Sullivan 0

All eyes were on Peru as December began as this rising economic star hosted the United Nations Climate Change Conference or COP 20 (20th yearly session of the Conference of the Parties), the annual climate talks in which 195 states congregate to discuss our changing climate. The main mission in Lima was to advance in negotiations for a new climate treaty that is hoped to be agreed at the COP 21 next year in Paris. […]