Under the guise of a land-titling project, Peru is breaking up and privatising indigenous common lands across the Andean highlands, writes Arthur Scarritt. While the law provides for communal titling and democratic votes, in practice there's no provision for communities to exercise these rights, and the many are being dispossessed in favour of large, 'efficient' market-oriented producers.
… eyes, brutal exploitation and even genocide. Europeans from Juan de Matienzo in …
The Midwest's largest ever anti-tar sands demonstration took place in Minnesota last weekend, writes David Goodner, cementing a new alliance of diverse communities united in resisting the pollution and destruction of tar sands exploitation, processing and transportation.
#NoTarSands resistance march draws thousands in Midwest David Goodner Waging NonViolence | 14th June 2015 News Fossil Fuels Tar Sands Indigenous Peoples Pollution Toxics Society Protest …
Illegal gold mining in the Amazon has a devastating effect on indigenous peoples, writes Sarina Kidd. First the miners bring disease, deforestation and even murder. Then long after they have gone, communities are left to suffer deadly mercury poisoning. Now the UN has been called on to intervene.
… elderly. Five miners were later convicted of genocide. The Brazilian authorities have known …
Peru, notorious for its brutal exploitation of forests, oil and minerals, theft of indigenous lands and murder of eco-defenders, is an unlikely host for the COP20 climate talks, writes Alexander Reid Ross. Except that Peru's actions reflect the corporate land-grabbing agenda manifest in the false solutions on offer in Lima this week. It's a time for resistance, not compromise!
COP20 and corporate power - destroying the edifice of false climate solutions Alexander Reid Ross | 10th December 2014 News Peru Unfccc Land Grabs Corporations Farming Indigenous Peoples Trade USA …
This autumn the Monsanto Tribunal will assemble experts from around the world to set out the evidence against the global mega-corporation, which will stand accused of monstrous 'crimes' against people and the environment. The Tribunal's verdict will not be legally binding - this time. But on a future occasion, it may be.
… perpetrators of crimes against humanity, genocide and war crimes. Committing ecocide - …
Peru's Congress may soon approve a road through remote rainforest which is home to the country's last uncontacted tribes. The link to the Inter-Oceanic highway would open the area up to land grabs, wood cutting and gold mining, and expose vulnerable indigenous people to diseases to which they have no immunity.
Amazon: rainforest road threatens Peru's last isolated tribes Oliver Tickell | 1st December 2016 News Peru Indigenous Peoples Forests Transport Human Rights prohibido-cut.jpg Peru's Congress may soon …
A proposed $30 billion railway line linking the the Peruvian and Brazilian coasts threatens devastation to forests and indigenous tribes that lie along its route, and will add to wider pressures on land and forests.
'Deadly' trans-Amazon railway sparks fear among rainforest tribes The Ecologist | 16th June 2015 News Brazil Peru China Forests Indigenous Peoples Transport fotos ferrovia-cut.jpg A proposed $30 …
A month-long blockade of the Rio Tigre deep in the Peruvian Amazon has secured promises of compensation and cleanup for Peru's Kichwa communities who have suffered 40 years of contaminated waters from oil drilling operations in their remote Amazon region. But until the funds materialize, they are holding firm in their resolve.
… have destroyed Kichwa lands and committed "genocide" while "the state has never defended …
With the International Monsanto Tribunal beginning this week (14-16 October) in The Hague, MICK GRANT reports from Vietnam with this special investigation for The Ecologist five decades after the company's lethal herbicide Agent Orange first devastated the country - and discovers the agribusiness giant is sneaking its way back into Vietnam with modern herbicides and 'Roundup-Ready' GMO crops.
… This is the perfect marriage of Ecocide and Genocide. The top global makers of fertilizers …
Stop Killing Cyclists are staging a protest in London on 27th April to demand an end to the UK's intolerable air pollution, writes Donnachadh McCarthy. With an estimated 40,000 people dying every year from filthy air, much of it caused by diesel cars, all are welcome to join in, denounce the government's 'polluters' friend' policies, and insist on swift action to stop the needless deaths.
… to call an end to this transport pollution genocide now! See you at the …