The United Nations has ruled that the Japanese government breached international human rights law by detaining two Greenpeace activists who uncovered corruption in the Japanese whaling program. The news comes ahead of the trial of the activists.

In the history book of bad ideas, the concept of giving corporations the right to censor the Internet has to rank among the worst ever.

Late in December 2010, the Fisheries Agency of Japan (FAJ) admitted some of its officials accepted kickbacks (gifts of whale meat) from the fishing body that runs the country’s so-called “scientific” whaling program.

A Japanese court today delivered its verdict in the trial of our two anti-whaling activists, Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki. The 'Tokyo Two' activists have been handed an unjust sentence for uncovering widespread corruption in Japan's Southern...

Behind closed doors at the International Whaling Commission (IWC), governments essentially ushered in another year of status quo in which around 2000 whales may die needlessly.Once again, the IWC failed to deliver for whales.

Recently, there have been reports in The Age and on the ABC that suggest Greenpeace has 'softened' its position on whaling, and commercial whaling in particular. We haven’t and we won’t.