Faced with Silence in Oaxaca, They Request That Paramilitaries Be Dismantled Source: My Word is My Weapon Mexico City, August 9, 2010 (CIMAC) – Women in resistance from the autonomous municipality of San Juan […]
Over the past few years, Rights Action has supported and worked closely with the Siria Valley Environmental Defense Committee, reporting on a wide range of environmental and health harms, and other human rights violations, caused […]
Hundreds of Brazilian Indians from across the country are gathering to highlight the killing of their leaders, the theft of their land for industrial projects, and other threats to their survival. Around 800 Indians representing […]
In an open letter published today in the French national newspaper Libération, more than 90 leading academics, authors and other prominent figures from around the world are publicly calling on the French government to reimburse […]
(IPS) – The Fourth Americas Social Forum kicks off Wednesday in the Paraguayan capital with a colourful march through the streets, as some 12,000 people prepare to take part in the activities organised by 50 […]
Source: Mondoweiss It was announced yesterday, August 2nd, that outgoing Colombian president Álvaro Uribe Vélez will be the Vice Chairman of the U.N.’s four-member international committee tasked with investigating the Israeli commando attack on the […]
U.S. media ignore the aftermath of dubious elections they praised Source: Extra! A year after a military coup removed democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya from office, Hondurans are still living under a repressive government—but the […]
Source: Colombia Reports Washington D.C.’s Georgetown University confirmed Wednesday that former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has been named a “distinguished scholar in the practice of global leadership” by the university, where he will keep himself […]
A Colombian indigenous leader has been shot dead outside his family home in the Colombian city of Riohacha, in the northern province of la Guajira. Luis Alfredo Socarrás Pimienta of the Wayúu tribe was allegedly […]
Source: NACLA Canada has been involved in oil and gas in Colombia since the 1920s, when the Canadian-based International Petroleum Corporation (IPC), then a subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, owned Tropical Oil and […]
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