(IPS) – Social mobilisation against gold-mining is growing in Colombia, which is now one of the world’s biggest per capita polluters of mercury, used in artisanal mining, according to the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation […]
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), the Ecumenical Commission for Human Rights (CEDHU), the Regional Human Rights Advisory Foundation (INREDH), and the Centre for Economic and Social Rights (CDES) express their concern for growing criminalization against social protest of indigenous communities in Ecuador, which are mobilized in defence of their rights due to the presence of large scale mining activities on their territories.
Since early December, hundreds of private contractors of multinational banana corporation Banacol have illegally invaded and occupied Afro-Colombian peace communities in the Curvaradó river basin in order to clear the land for banana cultivation. Their actions have been supported and assisted by local paramilitaries, army soldiers and municipal governments.
Aproximadamente a las 6:45 P.M. del Martes 11 de Enero, el Ejército Mexicano allanó la oficina del Comité para la Defensa de Derechos del Pueblo (CODEP) y el Comité para la Defensa de los Derechos […]
Source: Guardian Unlimited Just days after Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was inaugurated on new year’s day, thousands of activists from the Landless Farmers Movement (MST) took over three expanses of land and various government buildings, […]
Source: Fellowship of Reconciliation U.S. military agencies in September 2010 signed contracts for construction at Tolemaida, Larandia and Malaga bases in Colombia worth nearly US$5 million, according to official U.S. documents available to the Fellowship […]
IPS) – Spiraling violence against Central American migrants in Mexico has prompted legal reforms, diplomatic actions, and the creation of new mechanisms to protect citizens in this region. “There has been an upsurge in violence […]
On the 12th anniversary of Chavez’s first oath of office as president of Venezuela on February 2, 1999, one can easily get the impression from the international mainstream media that Venezuela is trapped in a terminal spiral towards becoming a state socialist dictatorship. However, Venezuela has made significant progress in the past 12 years of Chavez’s presidency (despite some significant shortcomings) towards creating a more egalitarian, inclusive, and participatory society.
(IPS) – Mothers’ milk banks that are helping reduce infant mortality in Guatemala and are starting to be set up in Africa as well form part of the numerous social technologies developed by Brazil that […]
Copyright 2003-2018 Upside Down World