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• Underreported Struggles #26, May 2009

  

  May 31, 2009  3,080 views 4 comments Share

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  In this Month’s Underreported Struggles: 7,000 delegates gather in Peru for the IV Continental Indigenous Summit of Abya Yala; Hundreds of Tibetan villagers face off against armed police ; dozens of indigenous communities in Ecuador struggling after February oil spill; San Carlos Apache speak out against Land Exchange and proposed Copper mine May 30 – Continental [...]

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• The Bhopal of West Africa

  

  May 15, 2009  2,260 views 3 comments Share

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  Under the cover of night, in August 2006, “a fleet of tanker trucks” filled with toxic chemical waste drove through the streets of Abidjan, in the Ivory Coast of West Africa, looking for a place to dump their cargo. They found at least 12 sites, according to report in SPIEGEL Magazine: all of them “near vegetable [...]

  Filed Under Africa • Bhopal • business • gas • Ivory Coast • reports • toxins

• Systemic human rights violations along Burma gas pipeline

  

  May 11, 2009  1,938 views 2 comments Share

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  The “Kanbauk to Myaing Kalay” gas pipeline in southern Burma is a guideline for “systemic, shocking and ongoing” human rights violations, according a new report by the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM).Titled, “Laid Waste: Human Rights Along the Kanbauk to Myaing Kalay gas pipeline“, the 100-page report documents ten years of abuses–including forced labour, [...]

  Filed Under Burma • Energy • gas • reports • violence