Tag: human rights
Crude Justice & Ecocide in the Niger Delta
By Leah Temper. Oil permeates our existence. From water bottles, plastics, fuels and paints to fertilizers, fabrics and solvents. Yet despite its ubiquity, the reality…
Death of a Waterfall? Posco’s designs on Khandadhara
Felix Padel, an expert on mining conflicts in Odisha (India), has written a blog for EJOLT giving more details on the struggles of indigenous communities in…
Canada should rein in its criminal mining companies
By Nick Meynen and Leah Temper. At the end of 2010, a woman from Guatemala sued a Canadian mining giant in Toronto, asking 12 million…
POSCO’s mine and steelplant in breach of OECD guidelines – CSOs file complaint
Source: OECD Watch The complaint filed by Lok Shakti Abhiyan and supporting coalitions in S. Korea, Netherlands, and Norway concerns POSCOs failure to seek to…
Massacre in Totonicapán, Guatemala
Seven were killed and some 40 wounded on Oct. 4 when security forces attacked a protest road blockade by Maya indigenous campesinos in Guatemala’s highland…
Environmentalists becoming an endangered species
By Leon Dulce. Willem Geertman, a Dutch missionary and NGO worker, was shot dead in front of his office in San Fernando, Pampanga on the second…
Activists speaking at the Peoples’ Summit are killed
EJOLT partner Professor Marcelo Firpo has just send us a sad message: “I was with two fishermen on 19 June in a meeting at Peoples´Summit…
Mining through military rule in Peru
By Leah Temper & Joan Martinez Alier Several districts in Peru have been put under military rule through a state of emergency after protests from…
Canada paying Latin press to hide the reality of mining in Latin America
By Miningwatch, Canada. In March 2012, Canadian taxpayers will pay eleven journalists from eight Latin American countries to attend the Prospectors and Developers Association of…
China’s Ecuador Embassy occupied in opposition to mining contract
In the morning of March 5th 2012, a group of women from various Ecuadorean organizations and social groups occupied for a few hours the Chinese…
