“Iranian society can no longer stay silent. A page has been turned”, says human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh. She is a Persian lawyer, jurist, and human rights defender. …

NYIHA TV is a destination for discovery, engaging viewers as they discover the quality and depth of its content. Our new film, The Struggle Continues (La Lucha Sigue), is a feature documentary about Honduras. Four years after the brutal assassination of world-renowned Indigenous leader Berta Cáceres in 2016, the film…

NYIHA TV: Can you talk about the journey that led you to engage in climate justice work? BOROUGH PRESIDENT REYNOSO: “Growing up in Williamsburg, it was hard not to be involved in environmental justice. North Brooklyn is a waste transfer hub, a superfund site with two underground toxic plumes, and home to both the BQE and a large IBZ. This area, especially Williamsburg, has some of the…

Every week, a journalist is murdered around the world. In a world where 9 out 10 journalist killings remain unsolved, we cannot be indifferent. We cannot let their deaths be invisible to society. Impunity for these crimes continues to be a threat for free expression. Accountability matters. Without it…

What is happening in the country of the mullahs a month after the tragic death of Mahsa on September 16, 2022? Why has an unprecedented protest and rebellion movement with the emblematic slogan “Woman, life, freedom” and “Death to the dictator” become the daily motto of protests in Iran and…

Publisher’s Note: On the occasion of Climate Week 2022, Professor Davalos participated in a panel entitled “The Amazon as a Bio-economy Superpower’’ on the potential of a standing forest-flowing rivers bio-economy for the Amazon convened by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network at Scandinavia House, New York. Biodiversity loss intensifies nature-related…

Spend time in a city in summer and you can feel the urban heat rising from the pavement and radiating from buildings. Cities are generally hotter than surrounding rural areas, but even within cities, some residential neighborhoods get dangerously warmer than others just a few miles away. Within these “micro‐urban…

NYIHA MEDIA: What is your current role and what led to that? GALINA ANGAROVA: My name is Galina Angarova. I come from the Abzai Clan of the Ekhirit Nation of the Buryat People. I identify myself as an Indigenous woman, an Indigenous rights activist, a climate justice and land rights’…

NYIHA MEDIA: What is your current role and what led to that? Annie Organizer: I am the Climate Justice Campaign Coordinator at WE ACT. I work with the New York policy team and the organizing team to help get members engaged in our policy campaigns. …