International

Will Weighing Passengers Cut Carbon Emissions At The Airport?

Will Weighing Passengers Cut Carbon Emissions At The Airport?

As if the pre-screen and security process at the airport wasn’t long enough, now it may become even more of a process before you ever get to board the plane. Being weighed before you board the plane. Sure, some passengers may feel that their privacy and personal space is being violated, and to be honest, they’re probably right. Most aircraft[Read More…]

Refugee Camp Based In Samos Greece Is Pure Prison

Refugee Camp Based In Samos Greece Is Pure Prison

Sharing beds with family members, cots within feet from the next family, lack of privacy, and a whole lot of other hell-like conditions. Imagine the pure fear and shame that the refugee families feel as they take cover in their gray blankets hanging over their bed for privacy. The long hours of waiting just to use the restroom. Waiting four[Read More…]

Raise the Roof Homeless Project

Hotel cancels Christmas booking for homeless residents

Christmas is a time of peace and goodwill. Unfortunately, the message of love and peace has completely bypassed one hotel. Carl Simpson, of Raise the Roof Homeless Project decided to pay £1,092  of his own money to give homeless people a room at the Royal Hotel in Hull. But the hotel had other ideas and once they learned that the[Read More…]

Mass re-education camps in China used to hold Muslim minorities

Mass re-education camps in China used to hold Muslim minorities

Mass re-education camps used to hold Uighur and other Muslim minorities in China are being run like “wartime concentration camps”, according to Amnesty International. The human rights group said that up to one million Uighurs, Kazakhs and other minorities have been arbitrarily detained in internment camps in the far-west Xinjiang region. Inmates at these camps have been forced to eat[Read More…]

French police accused of systematic violence against refugees

French police accused of systematic violence against refugees

French police have been accused of more than 1,000 human rights violations against refugees, it has been reported. Four humanitarian organisations published a report called ‘Police Violence in Calais: Abusive and Illegal Practices by Law Enforcement officers’, says that 972 incidents were recorded over the space of a year by aid workers who formed a human rights monitoring team. One[Read More…]