Month: April 2004

This year too, a humongous blood bath will take place on Canadian ice. At the end of March seal trappers will start clubbing another 350,000 young seals to death. Usually around 80% of the seals killed in the commercial hunt are “young of the year” – between approximately 12 days and one year old. The Canadian government has granted permission for this mass murder to take place and has set the quota higher than in previous years. This barbaric act will take place until the end of May. There are two main (non)reasons that the Canadian government uses to justify…

Most countries are relaxing their trade-rules and the newly signed FTAs are good examples of that. There are hardly any sanctions against China for violation of global human rights anymore and the EU has even planned to lift sanctions for the trade of weapons with China. More and more, trade with China is considered acceptable from a moral standing point, but on the other hand China hardly shows improvement in their stance towards human rights. China is with at least 726 executions in 2003 by far the leader in the execution of death penalties. The real number is probably much…