Canada-based Kinross Gold is said to be rethinking plans for expansion of its massive open-pit mine at Tasiast, Mauritania, after a strike shut the facility for 10 days this month.
Libyan oil production this month fell below 400,000 barrels per day—from 1.65 million bpd a year ago—as striking workers shut down export terminals.
US and Honduran unions are trying to leverage CAFTA labor agreements to get the government to act against a Lear Corporation auto parts assembly plant.
Colombian unionists continue to have problems with Coca-Cola’s local bottlers. Meanwhile, US campus activists continue to organize against the multinational.
Colombia's campesinos, miners, truckers and other sectors launched a nationwide strike, with clashes reported as National Police troops attacked roadblocks.
An "Ethical Trial against Plunder" was held in Bogotá to air testimony on the environmental and human rights practices of mining and oil interests in Colombia.
Two days before the bloody repression against Musilm Brotherhood protesters in Cairo, Egyptian army troops attacked striking steel workers in Suez governorate.
The Supreme Court’s April decision in the Kiobel case has already brought down another human rights suit, one charging Drummond with violations in Colombia.
Peru’s CGTP labor federation led angry protests in Lima ahead of independence day celebrations and pledged to mount a general strike to protest a reactionary new labor law.
Libyan protesters attacked offices of the Muslim Brotherhood's political party in Tripoli and Benghazi following the assassination of secular activist Abdelsalam al-Mismari.
With Rabaa al-Adawia square occupied by Morsi supporters and Tahrir Square held by army supporters, dissident protesters launched a “Third Square” camp in Giza’s Sphinx Square.
A nationwide strike has been declared in Tunisia after protests over the killing of opposition leader Mohamed Brahmi, a lawmaker with the leftist Popular Movement.
