A decade after striking workers were massacred at Hacienda Luisita in Central Luzon, nobody has been brought to justice. Survivors now demand resignation of President Aquino.
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."
The police eviction of a family in a working-class district of Peru's northern city of Cajamarca sparked a local uprising that left one man dead and 10 neighborhood residents detained.
Israeli settlers torched some 100 olive trees owned by Palestinian farmers near Nablus as the year's harvest began—the latest in a pattern of such attacks.
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.
Colombia's government, campesinos, indigenous groups and Afro-Colombians launched a dialogue table to improve conditions for rural and minority communities.
Some 2,000 campesinos blocked streets in Celaya, Guanajuato, demanding that authorities take measures in response to the plunging price of maiz and sorghum.
The deal that ended Afghanistan's electoral deadlock was brokered by the country's leading war criminals—and the US hopes to follow up with a "status of forces" agreement.
Authorities in Brazil arrested several members of a criminal "land trafficking" gang described as "the greatest destroyers" of the Amazon rainforest.
Israeli authorities announced the confiscation of an unprecedented 4,000 dunums (1,000 acres) of private Palestinian land south of Bethlehem under an 1858 Ottoman ordinance.
A court in Peru's Cajamarca region sentenced three members of a campesino family to more than two years for "land usurpation" against the Yanacocha mineral company.
Prosecutors in Brazil called for compensation to a Guarani indigenous community forced by land usurpation into a roadside camp where eight have been killed by motorists.
