Earlier this month, some 5,000 villagers clashed with police in eastern China after laying siege to a coal mine, which they blame for damaging their farmlands. According to Hong Kong's Center for Human Rights and Democracy, on April 7, the villagers "surrounded and attacked" the Gubei coal mine in in Anhui province and demanded an [...]
For more than three weeks now, the Kenyan government has been engaged in a brutal campaign of violence against the indigenous Samburu people in north central Kenya. According to Cultural Survival (CS), the government, who claims to be chasing after "cattle bandits", has "strafed the unarmed villagers with machine guns" from the air and "used [...]
Last week, the Nadleh Whut'en First Nation welcomed their neighbors, the Carrier and Sekani First Nations, to an independent consultation about the impacts surrounding the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline. The Nadleh invited the Carrier and Sekani to their territory, along with presenters from West Coast Environmental Law, the Pembina Institute, and the Office of [...]
A research team from the Pastoral Commission for Peace and Ecology (COPAE) has confirmed, beyond all measure of doubt---that Goldcorp's Marlin mine in the municipality of San Miguel Ixtahuacan, Guatemala, is poisoning local water supplies. On February 23, a research team from COPAE found levels of arsenic as high as 70 ppb (parts per billion) [...]
A new study reveals that nearly one quarter of the Earth's land area is being degraded by "human activities." "Land degradation - the decline in the quality of soil, water and vegetation – is of profound importance but until now there have been no consistent global data by which to assess its extent and severity," [...]
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UNCERD), responding to a joint statement of concern from three Indigenous rights groups, is urging the government of Indonesia to review its laws and take steps to ensure the protection of Indigenous Peoples' rights. "Indonesia continues to lack any effective legal means to recognize, secure [...]
Thousands of local villagers in the Masbate province of the Philippines, are in their second week of protesting the "unwelcome and unsafe" presence of the Filminera Mining Corporation (FMC). Working in partnership with Australia/Canada-based company, Central Gold Asia (CGA), Filminera's open pit gold mine in Aroroy was scheduled to be fully operational on March 20th, [...]