Via GlobalWitness.org: More than three people were killed a week in 2015 defending their land, forests and rivers against destructive industries. For our new report On Dangerous Ground we documented 185 killings across 16 countries – by far the highest annual death...
Op-Ed by Elizabeth Walsh originally published on Intercontinental Cry Even though Indigenous peoples make up just 5 percent of the world's population, their ancestral territories collectively span across 65 percent of the Earth's surface. However, just 10 percent of...
One year ago, on June 18, Pope Francis released his encyclical on the environment. This ground breaking document addressed issues including GMOs and climate change - a first for the Catholic church. On June 21 of this year, the National Catholic Reporter released the...
History of Failures Warrants Local Say on GMOs Note: GE Free New Zealand recently joined the steering committee of the Campaign to STOP GE Trees. Evidence of regulatory failures by authorities was centre stage at the hearings for The Whangarei and Far North...
The Council on Hemispheric Affairs reports in the just-posted article "Indigenous Leader Killed in Land Dispute in Brazil" that: "On June 14, 2016 approximately 70 armed men approached a small group of Guaraní-Kaiowá families and, after terrorizing them by burning...
Originally published at IENEarth.org Escalating intimidation of and harassment against indigenous human rights defender Gloria Ushigua of the Sápara People and her family On 31 May 2016, five men sat outside the home of Ms Gloria Ushigua throughout the night, in what...
Original post here: https://www.mst.org.br/2016/06/13/sem-terra-interrompem-atividades-da-empresa-suzano-e-denunciam-problemas-socioambientais.html Note: Suzano's subsidiary FuturaGene won permission from the Brazilian Biosafety Commission in 2015 to produce GE...
by Elizabeth Walsh June 9, 2016 Originally published at Intercontinental Cry "Divide and conquer" is a tried and true strategy in the toolbox of colonization. In the early 1800s, President Andrew Jackson accorded individual land rights to Native Americans as a tactic...
Originally published by Intercontinental Cry By Robin Llewellyn Two members of the unarmed self-defence force known as the Indigenous Guard have been killed by Colombia's infamous riot police, the Mobile Anti-Disturbances Squadron (ESMAD). The two Indigenous...
Oso Blanco was recently transferred out of a West Virginia prison, facing harsh treatment through solitary confinement and the withholding of exercise breaks, according to his support team, who are calling on the public to write him letters of support. Blanco...