My Right To Breath
Fighting for basic human rights is quite an understatement for the Beiruti in me. From the right to health, education, water, electricity – not to mention basic women and people with challenges’ rights for equality – the list is endless and has literally become a survival roadmap for any local. Yet one basic and global human right transcends it all: the right to breathe. Splash and Burn and Greenpeace Malaysia have something to say about that. Pangrok Sulap Originally developed as an awareness campaign to bring attention to the unregulated farming practices of Palm Oil in Indonesia, Splash and Burn has partnered in the past year with Greenpeace to put on the map the key issue of transboundary haze. Haze is an air-borne mixture of pollutants which include dust, carbon dioxide and other toxic gases. It comes from natural sources such as wildfires, but also from manmade sources that include motor vehicles, electric utility, industrial fuel burning and manufacturing operations.