Historic public hearing to take place in Guatemala City The Guatemalan Constitutional Court will hold a public hearing on the constitutionality of the country’s mining law today, July 20 in Guatemala City. Buses coming from […]
Ecuador’s judicial system is being used by the authorities to clamp down on indigenous and campesino leaders in what appears to be a deliberate attempt to prevent them from protesting against projects that will affect […]
Source: The Progressive The Newmont Mining Corporation, based in Colorado, has embroiled itself in a controversial project in northern Peru that locals say threatens their water and their future. Peasants and workers in the region […]
From July 7 to July 14, Rights Action facilitated an 8-day road trip through Guatemala, leading a group of 18 Canadian and American citizens concerned about health and environmental harms and other human rights violations […]
Source: InSight Crime Since the “Northern Triangle” of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala emerged as the main corridor for US-bound drugs, it has become one of the deadliest places in the world to be a […]
The Mexican authorities have failed to protect women from increasing levels of violence and discrimination or to ensure those responsible face justice, said Amnesty International in a report handed to a UN body due to […]
A deadly May raid brought the impact of the drug war on local communities in Honduras into the global spotlight. Source: AlterNet A boat riddled with bullet impact marks sits docked at a landing along […]
Source: NACLA Following a two-week vigil in La Paz, frustrated lowland indigenous marchers have decided to return to their native communities. Some 1,500 marchers arrived in the nation’s capital on June 27, after a 62-day, […]
Transnational corporations including Canada’s Rio Tinto Alcan undeterred by political turmoil Source: The Dominion TORONTO—A coup snuck up on South America last month, taking people around the world by surprise. The June 22 ouster of […]
Washington, DC — International relief and development organization Oxfam America joined 90 environmental and human rights organizations in sending a letter to the Peruvian Embassy in Washington calling on the Peruvian government to end escalating human rights abuses […]
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