Peruvian environmental prosecutor documents Plantaciones de Pucallpa’s violation of government suspension order
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Eyebrows raised over arrest warrant for missing land-rights campaigner
By: Pratch Rujivanarom
Date: May 7th 2016
Source: The Nation
A WARRANT was issued this week for the arrest of a missing activist for allegedly hunting in a national park, but his wife insists that her husband did not engage in such activity.
Thai villagers seek answers to disappearance of land rights activist
By: Alisa Tang
Date: May 10th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Villagers from northeast Thailand traveled to Bangkok on Tuesday to demand that police and human rights groups investigate the disappearance of a prominent land rights activist who went missing last month.
Brazil land activists facing 'increased intimidation' with six killings in 2016
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: April 29th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Land rights campaigners and environmentalists are facing growing violence and intimidation in Brazil, with at least six activists killed so far this year, a human rights group said.
Guatemalan Indigenous Leader Dies Fighting for Water Rights
By: teleSUR / md-CM
Date: April 27th 2016
Source: TeleSUR
Jesus Alvarez was one of the 15,000 indigenous people who participated in the March for Water that ended Friday in the country's capital.
Honduran movements in mobilization one month after brutal assassination of Berta Caceres
By Pambana Bassett
Source: San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper
Belize City, Belize – In Honduras, one month since the assassination of Berta Caceres on the 3rd of March, tens of thousands of African and Indigenous Hondurans and those in solidarity have taken to the streets throughout the country with deep sadness and in resistance to the neo-colonial forces at fault for her murder.
U.S. Notes Abuses in Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia in Annual Report
By Richard Finney
Source: Radio Free Asia
Harsh restrictions imposed on Myanmar’s ethnic Rohingya minority continued during the final year of that country’s rule by a nominally civilian but military-backed party, while government troops acted with impunity in abusing noncombatants in conflict zones, the U.S. State Department said Wednesday in an annual report on human rights practices around the world.
Indonesian indigenous group seeks return of ancestral land
By: Ryan Dagur
Date: April 7th 2016
Source: UCA News
'We have the right to cultivate our own property,' protester says
Nearly 200 indigenous people in Indonesia's predominantly Catholic East Nusa Tenggara province are staging a sit-in protest to regain calling for the return of their ancestral land they said was taken decades earlier by a farming corporation.
Why is Honduras the world's deadliest country for environmentalists?
By: Autumn Spanne
Date: April 7th 2016
Source: The Guardian
The environment is the new battleground for human rights, and activists are getting caught in the crossfire – particularly in Honduras, where two were killed last month
Land Grabbing Is Killing Honduras' Indigenous Peoples
By: Andrea Reyes Blanco and Tim Shenk
Date: April 5th 2016
Source: TeleSUR
OPINION & ANALYSIS
Berta Caceres' killing was a symptom, not an isolated incident.
Brazil's landless movement vows to defeat 'coup' in the streets
By: EFE
Date: April 1st 2016
Source: Fox Latino News
Members of the MST Landless Workers Movement told Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff Friday they would take to the streets to defeat a plan to oust her in a "coup," as they termed an ongoing impeachment effort in Congress.