News Briefs

(IPS) – Human rights organisations and the gay community in Costa Rica have joined forces to try to block a referendum on a law for civil unions between partners of the same sex. The Supreme […]

Source: Haiti Liberte The six month mark after Haiti’s Jan. 12 earthquake saw a flurry of news reports in Canada and around the world. The depictions of the harsh conditions still prevailing for most earthquake […]

Praise for Pioneering Proposal is Mixed with Concerns by Indigenous Groups Over New Drilling Planned in Southern Ecuador’s Pristine RainforestsSource: Amazon Watch Ecuador plans to sign an agreement today with the United Nations Development Fund […]

Source: History News Network Mark Weisbrot is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, in Washington, D.C.  He received his PhD in economics from the University of Michigan.  He has written numerous research […]

(IPS) – “There are alarming links between increased reports of extrajudicial executions of civilians by the Colombian army and units that receive U.S. military financing,” John Lindsay-Poland, lead author of a two-year study on the […]

Winning an election against a party in power for more than eighty years in Oaxaca constituted a triumph for voters and organizers, as well as for the individuals who won offices. But for Gabino Cue […]

Source: NACLA Increases in U.S. military funding have been accompanied by an increase in the number of extrajudicial killings by the Colombian military, according to a report released on July 29 by the Fellowship on […]

Source: International Cry Two days ago, more than one hundred Oaxaca state troopers raided the autonomous indigenous municipality of San Juan Copala, in Oaxaca, Mexico. The shocking move reveals the extent of the Oaxaca government’s […]

Brazilian Indians are occupying the site of a hydroelectric plant, demanding that they be compensated for the damage caused to them by the dam, that their land rights be upheld and that no more harmful […]