Colombia’s constitutional court overturned a 2012 government decree that allowed mining in nine areas of the country, together making up 20% of the national territory.
The Colombian government announced that it has agreed to a bilateral ceasefire with the FARC guerillas—hailed as an historic step toward a deal to end the long civil war.
Pakistan and Afghanistan saw deadly border clashes and a tense stand-off over Islamabad's plan to build a barbed-wire separation barrier at its Torkham crossing.
Police fired on striking teachers blocking a road through Mexico's southern Oaxaca state, leaving six dead—a significant escalation in the battle over a proposed education reform.
Traditional pastoralists from Ethiopia's drought-stricken Somali region crossed the border into Somliland in search of pasture, but it proved a false hope. Many are now stranded as hundreds of camels died in Somliland's parched plains. More than half a million… Read moreEl NiƱo and Ethiopia’s threatened pastoraists
Peru's president-elect Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has unveiled a platform that calls for privatizing and "individualizing" communal lands to facilitate mineral and agribusiness development.
An indigenous Mexican ecological defender is now in his seventh month behind bars, despite calls for his relase from Amnesty International, Greenpeace and other human rights and environmental groups. Ildefonso Zamora was arrested by México state police last November, in… Read morePressure on Mexico to free peasant ecologist
Mexican ecological defender Ildefonso Zamora is now in his seventh month behind bars, despite calls for his relase from Amnesty International and Greenpeace.
Venezuelan investigative police raided the offices of the Trotskyist left-opposition organization Marea Socialista in Caracas on the orders of a local court.
Independent sources say the ominous border clash was sparked when Eritrean troops shot at military deserters and an Ethiopia-backed armed opposition group returned fire.
A court in Ecuador's city of Loja sentenced two indigenous activists to four years in prison for their role in protests last year. Supporters gathered outside the courthouse.
The US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by the government of Ecuador of a $96 million arbitration settlement awarded to Chevron oil company.
