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Global race to save vaquita porpoise from extinction leads to arrests, and a death

The long-running global struggle to prevent extinction of the world’s most endangered marine mammal claimed its first human life in Baja California on Jan. 2, in the conflict between illegal fishing and conservation of the vaquita porpoise.
Written on January 4, 2021 at 6:38 pm
Categories: Featured Content, Human Rights, Land and Territory, social movements
Tags: Baja California, Mexico, NORTH AMERICA, vaquita
Native Americans Win Historic Victories in U.S. High Court Rulings

The final rulings of the Supreme Court calendar year favored indigenous causes diametrically opposed to those of incumbent candidate Donald Trump, reaffirming treaty rights and proving the power of recent grassroots mobilizations.
Written on July 20, 2020 at 9:20 pm
Categories: Food Sovereignty, Human Rights, Land and Territory, social movements
Tags: DAPL, Keystone, native americans. treaty rights, NORTH AMERICA
U.S., Canadian Native Women Fight for Missing and Murdered

From Anchorage to Acoma, all over the United States and Canada, native women have been mobilizing to procure justice for missing and murdered sisters. In recent years, the mounting grassroots efforts have made hard-won progress to counter gender-related violence in colonized communities.
Written on March 9, 2019 at 11:15 pm
Categories: Gender Equality, Human Rights, social movements
Tags: disappeared native women, NORTH AMERICA, Red Ribbon Skirt Society
Take action now to secure historic environmental rights accord for Latin America, Caribbean

There are increasing threats to nature, as well as to those who are involved in the defense of natural resources and land rights. In this scenario, the workers of the media whose duty it is to investigate such facts are exposed.
Written on July 31, 2018 at 11:29 am
Categories: Democracy and Society, Land and Territory
Early Dakota Access Pipeline Spill Angers Tribal Chairs

Tribal chairmen decried the newly finished Dakota Access Pipeline when reports surfaced that its first crude oil spill in South Dakota occurred even before the private infrastructure project went into service.
Written on May 18, 2017 at 11:18 am
Categories: Democracy and Society, Human Rights, Land and Territory, social movements
Tags: NORTH AMERICA
Memory of Bertha Caceres and Other Martyrs Inspires Demands for Environmental Justice

Caceres’ memory must be invoked along with that of dozens of other martyrs for the defense of the sanctity of all living beings, as the cross-boundary struggle builds to reinstate indigenous primacy in the protection of land tenure rights, biological diversity, habitat, food and water security, and the balance of nature.
Written on March 27, 2017 at 1:21 pm
Categories: Democracy and Society, Human Rights, social movements
Tags: CENTRAL AMERICA
New Goldman Prize Winner Vows Murder of Previous One Won’t Deter Her

Like Berta Caceres before her, Maxima Acuña has resisted violence and eviction in championing the protection of natural resources against powerful international corporate exploitation.
Written on April 21, 2016 at 12:00 pm
Categories: Human Rights, Land and Territory
Tags: CENTRAL AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA
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