Dictator al-Sisi has taken at least 60,000 political prisoners, including four activists of the Egyptian Initiative on Personal Rights (EIPR).

*Part of the EIPR’s role is to investigate the [88]mistreatment of prisoners, and during interrogations the arrestees were asked why they had fabricated accounts of the grim conditions faced by those in jail, even as they sat in those very conditions themselves.*

Al-Sisi can continue this because he has outside financial backing, from the US for instance.

UN special rapporteur David Boyd warns that three proposed repressive UK laws would *make human rights violations more likely to occur and less likely to be punished.*

People in the Florida Keys are starting to recognize that their islands are doomed because of global heating.

To raise their homes enough to escape flooding in the short term would cost more than they can afford. Worse than that, it would only delay the disaster, not prevent it -- the work would have to be repeated, with increasing frequency, and that would be money ill spent.

Millions of people will lose their homes due to sea level rise, and for in most cases we can't protect them for very long.

We have to focus on treating the disease, not the symptoms. The disease is greenhouse gas emission and the treatment is to curb emissions.

Forest protectors are attaching themselves to trees and roads to prevent logging of the remaining ancient trees in British Columbia (Canada).

The US endorsed the validity of the Peruvian election.

This is definitively better than how the US used to act.