Brazil’s government reaffirmed a court decision calling for return of usurped lands to the Xavante indigenous people. When Xavante protested at the Rio+20 summit, local ranchers blocked roads and burned bridges.
A US Navy ship fired at a fishing boat off the United Arab Emirates (UAE), killing one—as Iran again threatens to block the Strait of Hormuz and the UAE opens a new pipeline that strategically bypasses the choke-point.
Ecologists held direct actions against Scottish Coal’s Mainshill Open Cast Coal Site and BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam uranium mine in South Australia—as miners from Asturias marched on Madrid against planned mine closures.
Islamist factions pushed secular Tuareg rebels out of their last foothold in breakaway northern Mali. With a sharia state now in place, the UN Security Council is weighing a request for military action by West African nations.
Belgrade Women in Black held a public vigil to commemorate the Srebrenica massacre on the 17th anniversary of the worst single atrocity in the Bosnian genocide July 11. Banners read “We Remember Genocide of Srebrenica” and “Solidarity.” Photo: Women in Black See… Read moreBelgrade Women in Black remember Srebrenica
Riot police sealed off the streets of Haliut town in Inner Mongolia June 19, as traditional Mongol herders launched a protest march in response to what they call a government-backed land-grab of their ancestral grazing areas. Under a new “Five-Year… Read moreTraditional herders protest in Inner Mongolia
Plans by China’s government for the “resettlement” of the country’s last remaining nomads over the next five years have sparked protests in Inner Mongolia, with traditional Mongol herders accusing authorities of land-grabbing.
After marching by the hundreds in Bogotá, displaced Embera indigenous people won a pledge from Colombia’s government to return their lands usurped by paramilitaries—as an Embera leader was assassinated in Córdoba.
Construction workers with the General Confederation of Workers of Peru (CGTP) marched in Lima to support the struggle against the Conga gold mine project—and press their own demands of better pay and working conditions.
After 17 years, the authors of the Srebrenica massacre at last face justice at The Hague. But in the Serb-controlled zone of divided Bosnia is a growing genocide denialism—which is shamefully echoed in sectors of the Western “left.”
On July 6, in a silent mass demonstration that filled the central plaza of Celendín town, last rites were held for three of the five campesinos killed in protests against the Conga mine project in Peru’s northern region of Cajamarca… Read morePeru: Cajamarca martyrs put to rest amid ongoing civil strike
