A Brazilian court suspended construction of the controversial Belo Monte dam project on the Amazon’s Xingu River, finding that indigenous people had not been properly consulted.
A general strike shut down Tunisia’s Sidi Bouzid region—birthplace of last year’s uprising—to demand the release of detainees and the resignation of the governor.
As West African powers mull whether to invade Mali’s Islamist-held north or work out a power-sharing deal, young Malians are forming ad hoc militias to “liberate the north.”
Lisandro Tenorio, a traditional elder in Cauca, Colombia, was shot dead by unknown assassins—the latest backlash against indigenous demands that armed actors leave their lands.
Hundreds of anarchists gathered in Saint-Imier, Switzerland, to mark the 140th anniversary of the founding there of an Anarchist International, calling for a global revival of the movement.
Tribal peoples marched in the conflicted Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh to demand their constitutional recognition as “indigenous people” with territorial rights.
Beijing’s move to set up a military garrison on disputed Yongxing Island—claimed by the Philippines as part of the Paracel chain—is escalating tension in the South China Sea (or, as Manila has it, the West Philippine Sea), which has emerged as the… Read morePolitical chess game heats up South China Sea
Massive June 22 protest in Tokyo against nuclear power. Japan has seen its largest protests since the 1960s this summer, in opposition to the resumption of nuclear power generation after all the country’s reactors had been shut in a safety review prompted… Read moreHydrangea Revolution
A protest campaign on Okinawa has won a commitment from the Pentagon and Japanese government to delay deployment of Osprey aircraft to the island pending further study.
Aymara indigenous residents of Acora community in Peru's Puno region announced that a 72-hour paro (civil strike) will begin Aug. 13, to protest President Ollanta Humala's plans to move ahead with the Pasto Grande II irrigation project. The Pasto Grande II project would divert waters… Read moreAymara strike for water rights
Campesinos in Peru blocked roads to protest the pollution of local waters by a US-owned mining project in Áncash region, and the Pasto Grande II water diversion scheme.
Peru’s President Ollanta Humala has extended the state of emergency in the jungle area called the VRAE, where the Shining Path guerilla movement remains active.
