Nelson Giraldo Posada, a spokesman for campesinos forcibly relocated to make way for the HidroItuango hydro-electric project, was slain by unknown gunmen in Ituango, Colombia.
The protest camp at the Conga site was evicted by company goons, only to be re-established days later. But unknown gunmen fired on the new encampment.
The Honduran government is planning to form a military police unit, despite the rights abuses that led to the abolition of the military police 1997. The US reportedly likes the idea.
Local farmers demanding electricity and a bridge are the latest group to protest at the massive Belo Monte dam project in the Brazilian Amazon.
Campesinos occupying the Conga mine site tore down a gate they said had been illegally erected by the company across a trail used by locals as a traditional right-of-way.
Ethnic Tibetans protesting what they called illegal mining operations clashed with Chinese security forces in Qinghai province, where hundreds of troops are deployed.
The devastating floods in India's Uttarakhand state are being called a "Himalayan tsunami"—and a grim omen for millions living downstream from the world's highest range.
Veracruz authorities implied that Noé Salomón Vázquez Ortiz was killed because of a personal dispute, not because of his activism against two local hydroelectric projects.
Nicaraguan civil society groups in the Caribbean region have challenged plans by a Hong Kong company to build an interoceanic canal through the Central American country.
After a lengthy dispute with global mega-firm AngloGold Ashanti, the people of the central Colombian town of Piedras passed a referendum to halt the company's operations.
Mapuche activists are occupying land, planning a march to protest the usurpation of their territory—and questioning the safety of Chile’s growing salmon farming industry.
The July 22 Global Day of Action Against Open-Pit Mining, most widely observed in the Andean nations, also saw coordinated protests in NAFTA partners Mexico and Canada.
