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Indigenous Leaders suffer death threats because they resist the Belo Monte dam
Indigenous leaders, community members, rural workers and members of social movements are receiving death threats because of their opposition to the Belo Monte Dam Complex on the Xingu River...
Quilmes Indigenous community facing third eviction in three years
Despite Argentina's blanket ban on evictions of Indigenous communities, the Quilmes community of Colalao del Valle is facing its third eviction attempt in three years. Police officers already tried...
Pregnant Anti-Mining Activist Murdered in El Salvador
On December 26, Dora “Alicia” Sorto Recinos, an active opponent of Pacific Rim's El Dorado gold mine in El Salvador, was shot and killed as she returned home from...
Briefing on the Human Rights and Environmental Abuses of Canadian Corporations
With more than a thousand mining and exploration companies operating around the world, Canada is by far the most productive country when it comes to mineral extraction. It is...
Paramilitaries Threaten Aida Quilcue and Social Organizations
A paramilitary group calling itself RATROJOS has threatened several individuals and social organizations in south west Colombia for having, the group says, "a subversive discourse for the rights and...
Prisoners of a White God 
A documentary film about a mountain ethnic group in South East Asia, Prisoners of a White God investigates the activities of christian missionaries and international development among the Akha...
Gold, impunity, violence in El Salvador
A new campaign of violence has emerged in El Salvador, with community activists in the struggle against a Canadian mining company suffering attacks, kidnappings, death threats, and outright murder....
Frontline Communities Get a Little Extra Help
Thanks to the Global Greengrants Fund, and their relationship with the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Friends of the Earth International, the Pesticide Action Network, International Rivers, and others -...
Underreported Struggles #22, January 2009
In the month’s Underreported Struggles: Researchers discover Pharmaceutical dumping ground in India; 300,000 indigenous Kenyans threatened by new dam; Cusco Government Slams the Door on Biopirates; Embera warns company...
A new season of soya, a new season of conflict
Tension and conflict is growing hand in hand with the start of the new soya season in Paparaguay. Peasant organizations have begun to increase pressure on the government for...
Warning to Zapatista: we’re coming back in two weeks
A group of 200 Mexican soldiers and federal and municipal police tried to enter a Zapatista community last Wednesday, June 4, under the pretext of searching for marijuana plants....
The Agronomist
Directed by Johnathan Demme, The Agronomist is a documentary about the life of Jean Dominique, a respected Haitian journalist and human rights activist who's life was dedicated to the...
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