Via Center for International Environmental Law: Five months ago, a wave of heartbreak and outrage swept the world following the brutal assassination of Berta Cáceres, a Honduran environmental defender who mobilized thousands of people in defense of the rights of the...
Originally published on CommonDreams.org A U.S. appeals court on Monday "inexplicably" sided with oil giant Chevron in a massive case over its legacy of pollution in the Amazon. Chevron persuaded the court to block enforcement of an $8.65 billion judgment...
Eco-Business.com reports that indigenous leaders and human rights advocates are highlighting the rising violence against indigenous people and environmental activists in the shadow of the Olympic Games in Rio. In June, Global Witness reported that Brazil is the most...
Via GE Free NZ: NEW ZEALAND - The Minister for the Environment, Dr. Nick Smith, is due to approve the National Environmental Standards for Plantation Forestry (NES-PF).[1] The Ministry of Primary Industries received over 16,000 submissions on the NES-PF seeking the...
Originally Published at Intercontinental Cry Last week, shocking footage depicting security personnel in a Northern Territory (NT) juvenile detention center teargasing and torturing indigenous detainees made headline news in Australia. In contrast to the uproar it has...
Originally Published at NACLA.org The 2011 TIPNIS conflict exposed the contradiction between the MAS government’s proclaimed commitment to indigenous rights and the environment, and its aggressive pursuit of an extractivist development model. International media...
The-Star.Co.Ke, a news website from Kenya, reports that a team lead by the Kenyan national land commissioner chairman will determine resettlement of indigenous forest dwellers in August. From the report: National land commission chairman Muhammad Swazuri met...
Originally published at Intercontinental Cry By Elizabeth Walsh On the northwest Iberian peninsula, in Galicia, local communities manage more than 2,800 mountains. The Spanish coastline includes 230 cofradías:ancient, locally run governance systems that provide...
Via Inter Press Service By Baher Kamal ROME, Jul 25 2016 (IPS) - No longer it is about restoring the legitimate rights of over 370 indigenous peoples spread across 70 countries worldwide, many of them living in dire situation, but now about their central, critical...
Source: Our Green Nation, 14 July 2016 https://ourgreennation.org/2016/07/14/genetically-engineered-trees-a-new-frontier-or-climate-catastrophe/?utm_content=buffer9e48f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer Most consumers in the United States...