"Climate breakdown is shrinking the amount of time that people can safely go about their lives, according to a study that shows a third of the world’s population now resides in areas where heat severely limits activity."
//Meas Haoen, another Tampuan elder and spiritual leader, said the lake brings the community together as a gathering place and spiritual site they believe protects residents. "Tampuan Indigenous people will always manage this lake," he said, adding that they do not seek large-scale development.//
11,000 reasons for new pay transparency rules:
* Know what a job pays before applying.
* No interview questions about earnings history.
* No pay secrecy clauses/ company policy.
* Know the average your boss pays your peers.
Lim Li Ching, co-chair of IPES-Food, said “farming by algorithm” is not something farmers want and there should be more focus on a bottom-up approach that prioritises the knowledge and needs of farmers.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
IRELAND: Women will ‘carry the cost’ of any delay to pay transparency rules, union warns Equality Minister Norma Foley www.independent.ie/irish-news/w...
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The border conflict between Cambodia and Thailand is having a personal impact on workers: social hostility, verbal abuse, discrimination, administrative uncertainties regarding work permit renewals...
Thanks @somoamsterdam.bsky.social for shedding light on it.
It reminds me that, a few months before the Rana Plaza collapsed in 2013, which killed over 1000 workers, a social audit carried out at a factory there described the construction quality of the building as good. www.ecchr.eu/en/case/more...
"A striking seven out of ten (68%) workers polled feel they do not have the same level of power as their employer when negotiating terms of employment."
"Younger workers aged 18-34 are least likely to feel they have equal negotiating power with employers (17%), compared to 37% of those aged 65+."
"You just can't come in and stomp on people and trample them and push them into the ground. We have rights too and we're going to stand up for them."
- Mr. Ó Curraoin, whose family has harvested seaweed for over 100 years
“Economic revenue must not come at the expense of protecting the environment and human rights”
‘The country’s presidency of the European Union from July to December this year is a chance to show leadership’
- UN Special Rapporteur fact finding mission in Ireland
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11/ Mabile rejects the arguments laid out in the surprise last minute intervention by the French prosecutor in support of TotalEnergies' claim that climate change falls outside of the scope of the Duty of Vigilance law
read more about this intervention: www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...
Millions of files related to Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a 'global criminal enterprise' that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, a panel of independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council says reut.rs/4rpxDfl
“The cunning disguise this time is soothing words such as simplification and competitiveness.”
@ciaranbrennan.bsky.social of @envpillar.bsky.social writes on the dangerous undoing of environmental (and human rights) laws at national and EU level.
Eight Palestinian deported by ICE from the United States to the West Bank - via Ireland.
“They dropped us off like animals on the side of the road".
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Thousands of sea animals needlessly killed as bycatch of crayfishing industry in practice Dr Nick Payne of @tcddublin.bsky.social says is shameful
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"Arkema and Daikin Chemicals, two companies suspected of being responsible for the largest area of PFAS pollution in France, have been summoned before the Lyon judicial court by 192 adults and children living in a polluted area south of Lyon."
"The result is that 'serious violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) were wrought', the report continues, 'on a huge scale and with rampant impunity' – while efforts to seek war crimes prosecutions have been limited in response."
"The report found that during Storm Eowyn in January last year, the union heard from workers who had to travel into work, others who were told to take a day’s unpaid leave, and some who were told a day was being taken from their annual leave."
Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows: Critics accuse leading firms of sabotaging climate action but say data increasingly being used to hold them to account Just 32 fossil fuel companies were responsible for half the global carbon dioxide emission...
An Irish man who was facing up to 20 years in jail for helping refugees in Greece has said the charges brought against him were "farcical". Seán Binder and 23 others were found not guilty of people smuggling, belonging to a criminal organisation and money laundering last night
"It has been over 4 years since workers at the country’s largest hotel & gambling resort began striking, accusing NagaWorld of trying to dismantle the... [union] through mass dismissals & legal action."
Sithar is one of the few female union leaders in Cambodia and has been leading the strike. ✊
Please do one impactful thing for the Irish environment and make a submission on this.
It's shocking erosion of the public right to access justice. If this goes through, environmental decision making will inevitably disimprove. And it's not like we've been covering ourselves in glory to date.
Calling on Minister to scrap consultation on changes to legal cost rules
“This is a wholly inappropriate way to hold a consultation, not least by Department with responsibility for the Aarhus Convention on the rights to public participation and access to justice."
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'..the dispute “highlights the deep injustice at the heart of the outsourcing model in the tech sector, where responsibility is pushed down the supply chain, and workers pay the price. Just as Meta &Covalen profit off these workers’ labour, they should respect their right to collective bargaining.”'
"Workers on the ships described physical violence, including hitting or strangulation, wage deductions, intimidation and debt bondage – a system that in effect traps them at sea. Many reported working excessive hours with little rest."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
'[T]he HSA noted that farming accounted for 40 per cent of the deaths recorded while “employing approximately 4 per cent of the workforce”.'
