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.”
The US will retain control of non-Afghan detainees at Parwan Detention Center at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, despite plans to transfer control of the facility to the Afghan government in two months.
A panel commissioned by the Israeli government recommended that the state “legalize” dozens of unsanctioned West Bank settlements, and nullify Supreme Court decisions that have barred settlement expansion in certain areas.
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
To grease the deal allowing NATO to resupply the Afghan operation through Pakistan, the US pledged Islamabad $1.2 billion in “counterterrorism” aid—even as Pakistan’s intelligence services are accused of aiding the Taliban.
With elections underway in Libya, “federalists” demanding a greater share of power in the east of the country are blocking roads and oil terminals to enforce their call for a boycott—bringing oil exports nearly to a halt.
A lawyer for the International Criminal Court who was recently released from detention in Libya stated that she did not believe Libya could hold a fair trial for Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, the son of former leader Moammar Qaddafi.
