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Oil firm backed by Scots investment company pulls out of Peruvian Amazon project

Billy Briggs on July 21, 2020July 21, 2020

Standard Life Aberdeen, based in Edinburgh, invests in Chilean company Geopark, which had been planning to extract oil in the Loreto region of Peru.

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Kidnapped by the state: Mexico’s political prisoners in the Covid-19 pandemic

Eoin Wilson on July 2, 2020July 5, 2020

To reduce the risks of Covid-19 in Mexico's overcrowded prisons, the government signed an amnesty law. But many political prisoners have not been released.

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Scots pension funds put £90m in firms linked with US rights abuses

Billy Briggs on June 14, 2020June 16, 2020

Scotland’s largest council pension funds have investments worth £90 million in companies profiting directly from President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agency.

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Environment, International, Politics

Seal shooting by fish farms to be banned to save exports to US

Rob Edwards on June 2, 2020June 5, 2020

The Scottish Government is going to ban the fish farming industry from shooting seals to save a £180 million export business to the US, The Ferret can reveal.

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Tibetans forced to display pictures of Chinese state leaders

Billy Briggs on April 29, 2020May 1, 2020

Tibetans are being forced to display pictures of Xi Jinping and other Chinese Communist Party leaders in their homes, according to human rights campaigners.

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Photo essay: sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Angela Catlin, Billy Briggs on April 8, 2020August 13, 2020

The stories of women and girls subjected to sexual violence in an appalling human rights crisis engulfing the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Scots university taught cadets from Saudi air force accused of war crimes

Billy Briggs on March 20, 2020March 20, 2020

Stirling University taught English to Saudi air force cadets after UN investigators said air strikes in Yemen by the Saudi air force might amount to war crimes.

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Tibetan language being replaced by Chinese, warn campaigners

Billy Briggs on March 18, 2020March 18, 2020

An exiled Tibetan in Scotland has condemned China after report says that children in Tibet are being taught Chinese at the expense of their native language.

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The Western friends of North Korea

Rob Edwards on March 4, 2020March 4, 2020

Supporters and former members of North Korean friendship organisations reveal why some in the West are drawn to support the repressive regime.

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International, Human rights

Oil firm backed by Scots investment company pulls out of Peruvian Amazon project

Human rights, International

Kidnapped by the state: Mexico’s political prisoners in the Covid-19 pandemic

Human rights, International

Scots pension funds put £90m in firms linked with US rights abuses

Environment, International, Politics

Seal shooting by fish farms to be banned to save exports to US

International, Human rights

Tibetans forced to display pictures of Chinese state leaders

International, Human rights, Society

Photo essay: sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Human rights, International

Scots university taught cadets from Saudi air force accused of war crimes

Human rights, International

Tibetan language being replaced by Chinese, warn campaigners

International, Human rights

The Western friends of North Korea

Sub Club director’s family sold vacant site to hotel developer

Salmon farm rapped for toxic pesticide breaches

Adoption charities taking over Kinship carer service is ‘slap in the face’

Twenty children killed in Yemen since UK resumed selling bombs to Saudi Arabia