The president of Guatemala has declared a state of martial law in the town of Santa Cruz Barillas, Huehuetenango, suspending civil liberties as a result of unrest in the community instigated by proposed hydroelectric project "Cambalam."
Lands, Resources, and Environments
 Date: May 14, 2012
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 Date: May 10, 2012
Attacks on the Saudi-owned rice plantation in southwestern Ethiopia left five people dead on April 28, 2012, including one Pakistani worker and four Ethiopians, with at least another eight people injured. |
 Date: April 17, 2012
Inupiat tribal leader, Caroline Cannon, is one of this year's recipeints of the Goldman Environmental Prize for her exemplary work towards stopp |
 Date: April 11, 2012
On April 3, President Martinelli signed into law a bill that reestablishes the validity of Mineral Resource Mining Code, established in 1963 but which had been abolished by the Martinelli government in 2011. |
 Date: April 9, 2012
The Sixth Summit of the Americas taking place in Cartagena, Colombia on April 14-15, 2012. Indigenous groups are asking for a specific chapter in the Summit's declaration that addresses matters which concerns them. |
 Date: April 6, 2012
Arctic Village is one of the most remote Native Villages in Alaska; far away from the noise and turmoil of mainstream society, the only large chaos it consistently registers is climate change. This past summer, Arctic Village saw rapidly shifting weather and its strongest storms. |
 Date: April 3, 2012
The following was blog entry was posted by Rocky Kistner of the National Resource Defense Council |
 Date: March 27, 2012
A Moscow News article describes the battle lines between environmentalists and Indigenous Peoples on one side and Russia’s Gazprom company on the other, leaving the future of the sacred Ukok Plateau uncertain. |
 Date: March 27, 2012
Paraiso for Sale is a PBS fea |
 Date: March 26, 2012
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 Date: March 26, 2012
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 Date: March 25, 2012
Thousands of Indigenous peoples and campesinos in Guatemala have embarked on a nine-day protest march to the capital city, covering over 214 kilometers. Organized by the Comite de Unidad |
 Date: March 24, 2012
On March 8, 2012 in El Pangui, a small town in the southeastern Amazon region of Ecuador, a group of one thousand Indigenous people began a 400 mile journey north toward the capital of Quito. |
 Date: March 23, 2012
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Agriculture announced that it has temporarily suspended all land allocations in the country to take time for assessment. |
 Date: March 22, 2012
Ngöbe-Bugle leaders and Panama government officials reached an agreement last week that bans all mining in the Ngöbe-Bugle territory and requires community approval for any hydro-electric projects. |
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Date: March 21, 2012
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 Date: March 19, 2012
March 8, 2012 – International Woman’s Day – marked the beginning of the two-week march for “Water, Life, and Dignity of Indigenous Peoples” in Ecuador. |
 Date: March 13, 2012
Ouch Sam On, a deputy governor of Cambodia's Kampong Thom province, told Prey Lang activists last week that he "would not be responsible if they were shot while protecting Prey Lang Forest," according to our campaign partners at the Pre |
 Date: March 13, 2012
We’d like to thank all those who took action against the approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline bill in the US Senate last week. Activists across the country called, tweeted, and facebooked their senators encouraging them to vote against |
 Date: March 12, 2012
Please TAKE ACTION now and send an email to Panama officials urging them to respect the Ngöbe's right as Indigenous Peoples to elect their own leaders. |
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