Photo: (left to right) Audrey Thayer, Tim Mynett, Ilhan Omar, Lorna Hanes and Tara Houska meet at a Line 3 opposition camp. Photo by Hannah Olson/Bemidji Pioneer. On January 30, U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar met with Indigenous land defenders and water protectors opposed to the Line 3 pipeline. Omar, the Read more…
Parex Resources Inc., con sede en Calgary, opera el campo petrolero Aguas Blancas en el municipio de Simacota, Santander, en el noreste de Colombia. La operación de Parex en Simacota se ubica en la región del Magdalena Medio que incluye los municipios de Barrancabermeja, Puerto Wilches y San Martín. La Read more…
A still from this 8-minute video of David Boyd’s speech (in Spanish). On January 29, El Tiempo reported: “United Nations special rapporteur on human rights and the environment, David Boyd, mentioned that the Colombian government ‘must pass a law to prohibit fracking’.” “In light of its obligations under constitutional, international, Read more…
Photo by Dara Mac Dónaill/ Irish Times. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders Mary Lawlor has released a new 23-page report titled: Final warning: death threats and killings of human rights defenders. The report was prepared for the 46th session of the Human Rights Read more…
Photo: Land defender Helen Knott and West Moberly First Nations Chief Roland Willson. The Vancouver Sun reports: “West Moberly [First Nations] will be in court next year, claiming infringement of its treaty rights and damage to its traditional territories from construction of Site C and other BC Hydro dams on Read more…
In a Global Action Against Fracking protest in Bogotá on December 11, 2020, the logos of ExxonMobil (that works in partnership with Toronto-based Sintana Energy Inc.), Ecopetrol and Drummond Energy were carried. Photo by Óscar Sampayo. On January 27, Semana reported: “The Minister of Mines and Energy, Diego Mesa, said Read more…
On January 27, El Diario reported: “With two material detainees and no intellectual author, the start of the trial in the case of Julian Carrillo, a Raramuri defender of the Coloradas de la Virgen community, who was murdered two years ago, was postponed until next Monday, according to Amnesty International Read more…
On January 26, the Nydia Erika Bautista Foundation tweeted: “The legal team of the Nydia Erika Bautista Foundation has identified the need to promote the search for the cases of disappeared [in the department of] Casanare.” Their Facebook post adds: “Following demands made of Sandra Herrera, the coordinator of the Read more…
Still from Papuan Lives Matter documentary. Peace Brigades International-Switzerland has posted this article about the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) agreement with Indonesia that was signed on December 16, 2018. The agreement was approved by the Swiss Parliament on December 20, 2019. The PBI-Switzerland article notes: “On 7 March, the Read more…
Photo by Ryan Vizzions. The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) carries 557,000 barrels per day of fracked oil from North Dakota through South Dakota and Iowa to Illinois. There it connects with the Energy Transfer Crude Oil Pipeline (ETCOP) that carries the oil to Texas. The Indigenous Environmental Network has further Read more…