An illegal Israeli settlement outpost erected near the larger Kiyrat Arba settlement in Hebron was evacuated by Israeli forces, sparking violence from squatters, who torched Palestinian lands.
Dozens of Afghan refugees have been reported missing and thousands displaced by severe floods in Pakistan over the past two weeks, according to refugees, aid workers and officials.
Thousands of indigenous protesters are blocking river ports in Peru’s northern region of Loreto to press demands for the titling of native lands and payment for use of the waterways by oil companies.
Nine US human rights activists are holding a vigil at the Tolemaida military base near Bogotá with a 12-foot banner that reads “U.S. MILITARY OUT OF COLOMBIA.”
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights issued a statement strongly condemning the murder of Wayuu indigenous leader Luis Alfredo Socarras Pimienta in Colombia's Guajira region.
Peru will cancel the license of the US company Doe Run for a smelter complex at La Oroya, JunĂn region in the central Andes, said to be one of the most polluted locales on the planet.
Mexican army Special Forces troops killed Ignacio Coronel Villarreal AKA “Nacho”—a leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. But the cartel’s top kingpin, JoaquĂn Guzmán AKA “El Chapo,” remains at large.
A new report by the interfaith peace group Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) details how US funding to the Colombian military supports army units whose members have killed hundreds of civilians.
With banners reading “Defend the Rainforest” and “No Dams on Our Rivers,” indigenous followers of the Native Federation of the Rio Madre de Dios (FENAMAD) marched on the Peruvian jungle city of Puerto Maldonada July 28. As Peru celebrated its Independence Day, much of the southern regions of Cusco, Puno, Madre de Dios and ApurĂmac were paralyzed by a general strike to call a halt to the export of natural gas from the Camisea field in the rainforest of Cusco region, as well as construction of the Inambari hydro-electric plant. It is the second general strike in as many months to halt traffic and business in Peru’s Southern Macro-Region—and this time the strike has been declared open-ended.
Photo: FENAMAD
In a move protested by rights groups, French President Nicolas Sarkozy will evict some 300 squatter camps in a sweeping crackdown on Roma immigrants and “travellers.”
Amid the US military documents released by WikiLeaks are nearly 200 involving Task Force 373, a unit charged with killing combatants in Afghanistan, but also responsible for numerous civilian deaths.
Indigenous rainforest dwellers are occupying the site of the Dardanelos hydro-dam in the Brazilian Amazon, demanding that they be compensated for the damage caused to their lands.
