Leaked e-mails reveal that Austrailia's Karoon Energy provided "technical support" in the proposed reform of Peru's hydrocarbon law that would loosen oversight of oil exploration.
After defeating government "development" plans and repression a decade ago, militant campesinos are again confronting a program that would urbanize their farmlands.
Several have been killed in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, in protests over plans to expand the city's borders to incorporate outlying Oromo-dominated municipalities.
A court in China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region handed down prison terms to six herders who protested the seizure of local grazing land by a forestry company.
Peru's Yanacocha mining company is implicated in another forced eviction of a campesino family from disputed lands in the northern Cajamarca region.
World Bank auditors say the bank violated ethical standards with a loan it gave a landowner in the conflictive Aguán Valley region of Honduras.
Cambodian military police opened fire on striking garment factory workers, killing four, and then dispersed a protest encampment from a central square in Phnom Penh.
Colombia's ambassador in Washington, Carlos Urrutia, resigned after being implicated in the illegal transfer of lands from campesino communities to ag-biz companies, including Cargill.
Police in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region blocked an attempted cross-country march by traditional Mongol herders, with police assaulting hundreds in two incidents.
Hundreds of campesinos marched from the northern town of La Barca to protest new laws expanding mining and enabling the creation of autonomous “model cities.”
The president of a campesino organization claiming disputed lands is arrested, while the landowners and their security guards enjoy impunity amid ongoing violence.
National Congress president Juan Orlando Hernández has introduced a bill to create semi-autonomous zones that look a lot like the “model cities” ruled unconstitutional.
