Palestine
Protests as Israel starts Golan Heights drilling
Hundreds of residents and environmentalists protested in the occupied Golan Heights as exploratory oil drilling was initiated by US-owned Afek Oil & Gas.
Tag: control of water
Central America
Panama: Barro Blanco dam construction suspended
After years of controversy, Panama's government has ordered a temporary halt to the building of a dam opposed by local indigenous communities.
Central America
Panama: Ngöbe-Buglé set deadline to stop dam
Indigenous leaders give the government until Feb. 15 to cancel a dam they've protested for years. Meanwhile, a former president who promoted the dam has fled the country.
Central America
Nicaragua: protests as canal construction begins
Official ceremonies marked ground-breaking on Nicaragua's inter-oceanic canal project—marred by angry campesino protests, with scores detained and injured.
Palestine
Fatah under attack over statehood proposal
A Hamas leader said that the draft resolution for Palestinian statehood presented to the UN Security Council is "disastrous," and has "no future in the land of Palestine."
The Andes
Peru: campesino family scores win against mine
In a reversal for Peru's Yanacocha Mining, a campesino family convicted of "land usurpation" against the company had their sentence overturned on appeal.
The Amazon
Andes: repression ahead of Lima climate summit
The slaying of an indigenous leader who planned to travel from Ecuador to denounce a mining project before the Lima climate summit is the latest attack on regional ecological defenders.
Central America
Nicaragua: opposition mounts to canal scheme
With work about to begin on an inter-oceanic canal through Nicaragua, campesinos who stand to be evicted for the mega-scheme pledge resistance and warn of a "massacre."
Central America
Guatemala: reparations in abuses linked to hydro
Indigenous communities in Guatemala are to receive reparations for massacres aimed at clearing the land for the World Bank-funded Chixoy hydroelectric project.
The Andes
Peru: unrest mounts in Cajamarca
Police clashed with protesters in Peru's northern city of Cajamarca during a demonstration over the police slaying of a barrio resident—one of several social conflicts across the region.
Mexico
Mexico: dam opponent slain during radio broadcast
Activist Atilano Román Tirado, an opponent of the Picachos dam in Mexico's Sinaloa state, was slain by hitmen in the middle of a radio broadcast in Mazatlán.
Iraq
Iraq: ISIS near ‘complete control’ of Anbar
The Anbar Tribal Council warns that the western Iraqi governorate is 80% under control of ISIS, and remaining tribal fighters could be routed without urgent intervention.