Kazach forest activist assassinated
Note: Over the past year, many environmental and social justice activist and organizers have been beaten, jailed or assassinated. Cases of unlawful arrest, beatings and murder have occurred in...
View ArticleAction Alert: Indigenous Xinca leaders abducted after mining referendum
March 21, 2013. Source: Center for International Environmental Law Urgent Action: Indigenous Xinca Leaders Abducted After Mining Referendum For more than two years, communities in the municipalities of...
View ArticleMexican journalists march against attacks on press
By Rodrigo Soberanes and Galia Garcia Palafox, April 28, 2013. Source: The Miami Herald Officials in Veracruz state say they know who killed Regina Martinez. The muckraking reporter, found beaten and...
View ArticleFriends and family of murdered U.S. journalist blast Obama for failure to...
Note: Brad Will: ¡Presente! -The GJEP Team May 7, 2013. Source: Friends of Brad Will President Obama has returned from Mexico having doubled down on the same policies that have created suffering for...
View ArticlePeru: Peasant leader killed in Cajamarca
By Bill Weinberg, June 28, 2013. Source: World War 4 Report A campesino leader in Peru’s Cajamarca region, the scene of ongoing protests over mining operations, was assassinated June 26. Carlos Vásquez...
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