Amid a flurry of recent protests, strikes, negative press, and shareholder divestment, British coal company GCM Resources’ executive Grahram Taggart resigned last week.
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 February 14, 2013
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 February 14, 2013
Traditional Maya leaders reported that Texas-based US Capital Energy has made numerous attempts to buy support for their oil drilling project on Maya lands including those inside the Sarstoon-Temash National Park in Southern Belize by infiltrating the Maya lea |
 February 13, 2013
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 February 11, 2013
The Ethiopian government has committed egregious human rights abuses to make way for agricultural land investments, in direct violation of international law, said the Oakland Institute in a new briefing paper released in New Delhi today. The briefing paper, entitled "Unheard Voices: The Human Rights Impact of Land Investments on Indigenous Communities in Gambella,” calls on Ethiopia to put an end to the illegal forced evictions of indigenous peoples in areas targeted for land investment. |
 February 11, 2013
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 January 27, 2013
The 18th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) took place in Doha in December 2012. The COP was not expected to deliver any historical groundbreaking result, but rather lay out the roadmap for the negotiations towards the established deadline of 2015, when a global binding agreement on emissions reduction is expected to be finalized. |
 January 26, 2013
Nothing screams Hawai’i more than the lu’au. Every year countless people experience the numerous commercial lu’aus offered on all of the islands, but how many of those people understand what the lu’au, or as it is called by the Hawai’ian people, ‘aha’aina, means to the Hawai’ian culture. |
 January 25, 2013
Tribal language programs nationwide have begun summer program preparations for a range of community language immersion and teacher training opportunities. |
 January 24, 2013
On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 the community radio movement in Guatemala held a book release presenting a newly published Spanish language text. |
 January 24, 2013
On January 26-27, 2013, Cultural Survival held an exchange between Q'eqchi Maya communities in Belize and Guatemala to talk about strategies for implementing the right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent, and how community radio can be used as a tool for doing so. Members of community radio sta |
