The wife and infant son of a local leader of independent artisenal miners were assassinated in the community of Pamputa, Peru—with suspicion falling on mining giant Xstrata.
The protest camp at the Conga site was evicted by company goons, only to be re-established days later. But unknown gunmen fired on the new encampment.
Leaders of the National Council of Marka and Ayllus of Qullasuyu (CONAMAQ) charged that their office in La Paz was attacked by followers of the ruling party.
Venezuela’s withdrawal from the American Convention of Human Rights went into effect this month, drawing the condemnation of rights groups across the hemisphere.
Thousands of Romanians have been occupying Bucharest to protest plans by Canadian firm Gabriel Resources to establish Europe's biggest open-pit gold mine at Rosia Montana.
Security forces in China’s far western Xinjiang region shot and killed at least 12 men and wounded 20 others during a raid on what authorities described as a “terrorist facility.”
A visit by a delegation of cabinet ministers from Mali’s central government to Kidal, the northern town held by Tuareg rebels of the MNLA, sparked a mini-intifada.
National Police troops in Peru’s northern Cajamarca province clashed with local campesinos on communal lands coveted by the Yanacoha mining company, injuring four.
The National Indigenous Organization of Colombia warns that 62.7% of Colombia’s indigenous population is at risk of extinction due to armed conflict and mining development.
Colombian campesinos ended their national strike and lifted road blockades after the government agreed to suspend a law barring seed-saving to protect corporate GMOs.
Colombia paid Ecuador $15 million after anti-narcotics fumigation planes dropped herbicides along the border, harming crops and communities in Ecuadoran territory.
Indigenous authorities in the Guatemalan pueblo of Nacahuil reject government claims that a massacre there was the work of drug gangs, pointing to violence against mining opponents.
