The Inter-ethnic Association for Development of the Peruvian Rainforest (AIDESEP) issued a “Plan for the Full Life of the Amazon,” calling for indigenous-directed development projects.
Campesino leaders from Cajamarca will travel to Washington DC to testify before the Inter-American Human Rights Commission about abuses related to the Conga mine project.
North Korea threatens military action against the South, South Korea's Coast Guard attacks a Chinese fishing fleet, and China sends a naval force into waters claimed by Japan…
A right-wing "Identity Group" seized a mosque in Poitiers, issuing a "declaration of war" against the "Islamization" of France—weeks after a bomb attack on a kosher shop in Paris.
The Sudanese government charged that Israeli airstrikes were responsible for explosions overnight at the Yarmouk Military Industrial Complex, an armaments plant in Khartoum.
An appeals court in Bahrain upheld verdicts against two members of the Bahrain Teachers’ Association for organizing a strike last year to support anti-government protests.
Egypt's prosecutor ordered an investigation into claims of fraud during the recent presidential elections after charges were made by ex-candidate Ahmed Shafiq.
Guantánamo Bay detainee Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, accused in the USS Cole bombing, boycotted his pretrial hearing in a military tribunal at the facility.
United Nations independent human rights experts urged Colombian authorities to reconsider proposed constitutional reforms affecting the military criminal law.
The Port-au-Prince chief prosecutor Jean Renel Sénatus was fired after he refused to arrest 36 Martelly opponents, including three lawyers who challenged the president’s record.
Spanish national Angel Francisco Carromero gets four years in the automobile accident that killed well-known dissident Oswaldo Payá—but Cuba and Spain may make a deal.
With “model cities” rejected by the Supreme Court in Honduras, proponents are looking to take the neoliberal scheme to Jamaica—and maybe even to Greece.
