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German Communist Party backs Vietnamese AO victims Chia sẻ | FaceBookTwitter Email Copy Link Copy link bài viết thành công  11/05/2021    11:25 GMT+7 The German Communist Party (DKP) on May 10 issued a statement expressing its support for the lawsuit lodged by Vietnamese French Tran To Nga and Vietnamese Agent Orange/dioxin victims against 14 multinational chemical groups. Caring f...

Trans last fight Tran To Ngas daughters have been pleading with their mother to move in with one of them, either to Vietnam or to Australia — because of the COVID-19 pandemic, her health problems and her advanced age. But leaving France is not an option for the 79-year-old, who is adamant she must stay to fight what she calls her last battle. Supported by various nongovernmental organizations, Tran sued 14 chemical companies in a court in Evry, a southern suburb of Paris that she has called...

BBC News Published image copyrightGetty Images image captionThe US military sprayed Agent Orange defoliant to deprive the communist Viet Cong of cover and food A French court has thrown out a bid by a former journalist to hold companies to account for supplying the toxic herbicide "Agent Orange" during the Vietnam War. Tran To Nga, 79, wanted 14 agrochemical giants including Bayer-Monsanto and Dow Chemical put on trial for the crime of ecocide - destroying the environment. However, the court ...

French court rejects Agent Orange lawsuit © Getty Images The US military sprayed Agent Orange defoliant to deprive the communist Viet Cong of cover and food A French court has thrown out a bid by a former journalist to hold companies to account for supplying the toxic herbicide "Agent Orange" during the Vietnam War. Tran To Nga, 79, wanted 14 agrochemical giants including Bayer-Monsanto and Dow Chemical put on trial for the crime of ecocide - destroying the environment. However, the court ...

Banner from Reporters without Borders showing the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (right) and slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi. (Image via Courthouse News) PARIS (AFP) — An NGO filed a case against a Saudi general in a Paris court on Friday, accusing him of being responsible for the torture of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, its lawyer said. Khashoggi was tortured, killed and dismembered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul after going there to get documents for his wedding. The ...

Uncaptured: The true account of the Nenegate/Trillian whistleblower is Mothepus tell-all account. Bruce Whitfield interviews Mothepu on The Money Show. Just listening to Nenes speech to his team [played out during the interview] gives me goosebumps -the fact that I knew six weeks ahead that his firing was imminent! Mosilo Mothepu, Author - Uncaptured Its interesting that while we were all at Regiments Capital, we were all under the Zuma administration at the time and we were quite used to Cabin...

Teodorin Obiang, son of Equatorial Guinea’s president and the country’s vice president, has been handed a fine of 30 million euros ($32.9m)  by a Paris court for embezzling public funds. The court also gave Obiang, the 50-year-old son of Africa’s longest-serving president, a suspended jail term and ordered the confiscation of his assets on Monday.  Obiang, who is fond of fast cars and Michael Jackson memorabilia, had been found guilty by a French court in 2017 of having plundered h...

by Nguyễn Mỹ Hà An international trial taking place in a Paris suburb is sure to touch anyone who has ever read about the deadly consequences of Agent Orange in Việt Nam. Refusing to continue being a victim of the deadly chemicals sprayed by the US armed forces during the anti-American war in South Việt Nam, Madam Trần Tố Nga, 79, is taking giant American chemical producers to court in France. Fifty-nine years after the first batch of Agent Orange defoliant was sprayed by a ...

Brazil guts agencies, ‘sabotaging environmental protection’ in Amazon: Report A new report documents draconian budget cuts to Brazilian environmental monitoring and firefighting of 9.8% in 2020, and 27.4% in 2021 — reductions, analysts say that were inflicted by the Bolsonaro administration in “a clear policy for dismantling national environmental policies.” Brazil’s environmental agencies under Bolsonaro have also been subjected to nearly 600 administrative and rules changes, invok...

Struggle for AO/dioxin victims in Vietnam endures Chia sẻ | FaceBookTwitter Email Copy Link Copy link bài viết thành công  26/01/2021    23:29 GMT+7 Significant attention has been paid to a hearing on January 25 for a trial brought by Vietnamese-French woman Tran To Nga against the US companies that provided the chemical toxins used by the US Army in the war in Vietnam. The trial h...