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DoomsdaysCW<p>Why is violence against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalDefenders</span></a> getting worse? Five things to know</p><p>Maxwell Radwin<br>11 Sep 2024</p><p>"In January 2023, two men mysteriously disappear after speaking out against pollution from a controversial iron ore mine in Michoacán, Mexico.</p><p>"The following March, climate change protesters in Austria and Germany are beaten and pepper sprayed, and some have their homes raided by law enforcement.</p><p>"In September, a pair of youth environmental advocates are abducted by armed men and interrogated for days about their work fighting construction of a new airport in the Philippines.</p><p>"All across the world, environmental defenders continue to experience censorship, threats, physical attacks, kidnappings, disappearances and even death because of their work fighting climate change, deforestation, pollution and other environmental issues.</p><p>"Since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, more than 1,500 environmental defenders have been killed for their work, according to Global Witness, a human rights and environmental NGO. The figures for 2023 look like more of the same. At least 196 people were killed last year defending the environment, up from 177 in 2022. And those figures are considered a low-end estimate."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/09/why-is-violence-against-environmental-defenders-getting-worse-five-things-to-know/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.mongabay.com/2024/09/why-</span><span class="invisible">is-violence-against-environmental-defenders-getting-worse-five-things-to-know/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterDefenders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalJustice</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalWitness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWitness</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mongabay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mongabay</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IACHR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IACHR</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtractiveIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExtractiveIndustries</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Logging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Logging</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LandDefenders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greed</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LatinAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LatinAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Phillipines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Phillipines</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>India</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indonesia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indonesia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Honduras" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Honduras</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DemocraticRepublicOfCongo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DemocraticRepublicOfCongo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PublicOrderAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicOrderAct</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HR9495" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HR9495</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingDissent</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RSN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSN</span></a>: The Deadly Fight for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalJustice</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Honduras" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Honduras</span></a></p><p>The assassination of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Honduran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Honduran</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterDefender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterDefender</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JuanL%C3%B3pez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JuanLópez</span></a> offers a chilling reminder of the threats local leaders face in the most dangerous region in the world for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalActivists</span></a>.</p><p>by Giada Ferrucci / NACLA<br>22 October 24</p><p>"On September 14, 2023, Juan Antonio López, a prominent environmental defender, anti-corruption activist, and community and faith leader in Tocoa, Honduras, was murdered. He was in his car after attending a religious event at a local Catholic church when an unidentified hitman shot him multiple times. Due to previous death threats and harassment linked to his defense of the Guapinol River, López had received precautionary measures from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the same measures that failed to protect fellow environmental defender Berta Cáceres from being killed in 2016.</p><p>"López’s assassination has sent shockwaves through the region, a chilling reminder of the violence and impunity that threaten environmental activists across Latin America and globally. His murder also reflects a disturbing pattern of attacks on those who dare to challenge economic and political powers in Honduras, a country that consistently ranks as one of the most dangerous in the world for environmental activists. These risks are especially pronounced in highly militarized areas like the Aguán Valley, where López lived, a resource-rich epicenter of land grabs and conflicts along the north coast. Dozens of Aguán environmental defenders have been systematically targeted, threatened, and murdered for more than a decade.</p><p>In 2023, 18 environmental defenders were killed in Honduras, the highest number per capita of any country in the world, according to Global Witness. Among the victims were three fellow Guapinol defenders: Aly Magdaleno Domínguez Ramos, Jairo Bonilla Ayala, and Oquelí Domínguez Ramos. In López’s case, authorities have arrested the alleged hitman and an accomplice.</p><p>"The Honduran state’s failure to protect López despite IACHR protective measures speaks to the broader issue of impunity and lack of political will to safeguard those who defend natural resources and human rights in the face of powerful economic interests. His murder also highlights systemic corruption, recently laid bare by scandals involving drug traffickers and high-profile political figures. In short, López’s assassination is part of a wider global crisis of relentless violence and persecution targeting activists who stand up to mining, logging, and other extractive industries."</p><p>Read more / support:<br><a href="https://www.rsn.org/001/the-deadly-fight-for-environmental-justice-in-honduras.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rsn.org/001/the-deadly-fight-f</span><span class="invisible">or-environmental-justice-in-honduras.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IACHR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IACHR</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtractiveIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExtractiveIndustries</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Logging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Logging</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LandDefenders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GuapinolRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GuapinolRiver</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BertaC%C3%A1ceres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BertaCáceres</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AlyMagdaleno" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlyMagdaleno</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dom%C3%ADnguezRamos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DomínguezRamos</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JairoBonillaAyala" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JairoBonillaAyala</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oquel%C3%ADDom%C3%ADnguezRamo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OquelíDomínguezRamo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greed</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>From 2019: Criminalization of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> Defenders of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a> Resisting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtractiveIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExtractiveIndustries</span></a> in the United States</p><p>Report to the Inter-American<br>Commission on Human Rights</p><p>Prepared by the University of Arizona Rogers College of Law, Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program on behalf of the Water Protector Legal Collective</p><p>6/24/2019</p><p>Introduction</p><p>1. Peaceful demonstrations are a catalyst for the advancement of human rights. Yet around the world governments are criminalizing dissent and suppressing public <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protest</span></a>, often as a means to protect <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateInterests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateInterests</span></a>. In this context, indigenous peoples increasingly find themselves as the subjects of arrests, criminal prosecution and police violence when defending the lands they rely upon for their existence and survival from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResourceExtraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResourceExtraction</span></a> by industries who are operating without the free prior and informed consent of the affected communities.</p><p>2. This report is submitted to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IACHR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IACHR</span></a>) in conjunction with a thematic hearing held during the 172nd period of sessions. At the hearing,<br>Commissioners heard directly from those involved in the indigenous-led resistance to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DakotaAccessPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DakotaAccessPipeline</span></a> (DAPL) at Standing Rock, North Dakota. This report addresses the criminalization and suppression of protest by indigenous human rights defenders and their allies by United States (U.S.) federal, state and local governments, working hand-in-hand with private security forces [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackwater</span></a>], specifically in relation to the construction and operation of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DAPL</span></a> by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyTransfer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyTransfer</span></a><br>Partners and Dakota Access, LLC (Dakota Access) and the connected <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BayouBridgePipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BayouBridgePipeline</span></a> (collectively the “<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BakkenPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BakkenPipeline</span></a>”).</p><p>3. Standing Rock is an emblematic case of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousResistance</span></a> to extractive industry that drew attention from around the world as water protectors met on the banks of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MissouriRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MissouriRiver</span></a> in peaceful assembly in what was the largest gathering of indigenous peoples in the U.S. in 100 years. Standing Rock is merely one example of how the U.S. government works with industry to approve energy projects carried out without the meaningful participation or consent of<br>indigenous nations. Indigenous peoples are left with no choice but to peacefully protest and then are criminalized for their efforts to defend their lands and resources.</p><p>4. Since Standing Rock, there has been an alarming trend by the United States government and state legislatures to criminalize opposition to pipelines and other energy projects. These <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiProtest</span></a> and so-called “<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriticalInfrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriticalInfrastructure</span></a> laws” progress towards criminalizing dissent and implicitly condone the use of excessive force towards human rights defenders, often including indigenous peoples and their allies who are at the forefront of resistance to extractive industries. As the international community has acknowledged, these laws are incompatible with domestic and international law. The governments’ use of excessive force and mass arrests to threaten, intimidate, and silence “<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterProtectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterProtectors</span></a>” seeking to defend their lands, resources, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>culture</span></a>, and the collusion with private security forces, violate fundamental human rights to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> and Aassembly enshrined in international human rights law and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USConstitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USConstitution</span></a>.</p><p>5. The information provided here builds on a 2016 request for Precautionary Measures filed by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandingRock</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CheyenneRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CheyenneRiver</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YanktonSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YanktonSioux</span></a> tribes, past Commission hearings on similar matters that remain unsettled, and reports on Indigenous Peoples and Extractive Activities, and the Criminalization of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRightsDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRightsDefenders</span></a>. In addition, the United Nations has reported on the situation at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandingRock</span></a> through the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of of indigenous peoples. Despite condemnation from these international bodies and mechanisms, water protectors continue to suffer impacts from the criminalization of their dissent, while the United States moves forward permitting new <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pipeline</span></a> projects on indigenous territories.</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://law.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/FINAL%20IPLP-WPLC%20Report%20to%20IACHR%20-%206-24-19.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">law.arizona.edu/sites/default/</span><span class="invisible">files/FINAL%20IPLP-WPLC%20Report%20to%20IACHR%20-%206-24-19.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HR9495" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HR9495</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopHR9495" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopHR9495</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritanism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ErikPrince</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrinceColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ErikPrinceColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackwater</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandWithStandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandWithStandingRock</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoDAPL</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRockSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandingRockSioux</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LandDefenders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterDefenders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterProtectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterProtectors</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a></p>
Paria sans portefeuille<p>Dozens of <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/MiningCompanies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MiningCompanies</span></a> are seeking permission from the <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/BC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BC</span></a> govt to develop some of the world’s largest <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/GoldMines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoldMines</span></a> in the headwaters of SE <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/Alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alaska</span></a>’s transboundary rivers, and the Canadian govt continues denying the sovereign rights of the Alaskan Native nations living downstream from the extractive <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> activities. </p><p>guests: Guy Archibald &amp; Esther Reese of <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/SEITC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SEITC</span></a></p><p><a href="https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp/southern-alaska-native-nations-intervention-stopping-the-mining-industry-from-extinguishing-life" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">soundcloud.com/burntswamp/sout</span><span class="invisible">hern-alaska-native-nations-intervention-stopping-the-mining-industry-from-extinguishing-life</span></a><br><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericans</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extractivism</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/fisheries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fisheries</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/IACHR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IACHR</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/BCpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCpoli</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/CdnPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CdnPoli</span></a></p><p><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/AmericanIndianAirwaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanIndianAirwaves</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Family of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AfroIndigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AfroIndigenous</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/activist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activist</span></a> in immigration detention worries he may be deported back to danger</p><p>Story by Nicole Acevedo <br>6-25-2024</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErlinCenteno" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ErlinCenteno</span></a>'s family has feared being permanently separated since the father of three children was detained four months ago following a routine check-in with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> authorities in New York City.</p><p>"The lives of Centeno and his family were endangered after four of his cousins were killed and he started receiving many letters and text messages containing death threats, according to court transcripts obtained by NBC News of his testimony to an immigration judge. The threats were a result of the work he and his cousins did defending the territorial rights of Afro Indigenous communities in his homeland known as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Garifuna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Garifuna</span></a>, according to Centeno and his wife.</p><p>[...]</p><p>"The Garifuna people are descendants of enslaved <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Africans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Africans</span></a>, and also <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arawak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arawak</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Caribbean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Caribbean</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> communities who have historically been displaced from their ancestral lands. Many of them remain in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Guatemala" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Guatemala</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nicaragua" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nicaragua</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Belize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Belize</span></a> — but most of them are in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Honduras" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Honduras</span></a>, where they face high levels of violence, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> and extreme poverty, according to the Inter-American Commission on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> (IACHR).</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Centeno" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Centeno</span></a> started advocating for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GarifunaRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GarifunaRights</span></a> in 2020, working with the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras, one of the most prominent Garifuna nonprofits in Honduras. According to an <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IACHR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IACHR</span></a> report, their members have long been harassed, threatened, beaten, kidnapped and killed amid land grabbing and territorial disputes involving industries with high economic interests in the region — which has intensified as local <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/investors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>investors</span></a> have sought to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/develop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>develop</span></a> the area — as well as local gangs fighting over territories."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/family-of-afro-indigenous-activist-in-immigration-detention-worries-he-may-be-deported-back-to-danger/ar-BB1oSTfE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msn.com/en-us/news/us/family-o</span><span class="invisible">f-afro-indigenous-activist-in-immigration-detention-worries-he-may-be-deported-back-to-danger/ar-BB1oSTfE</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LandDefenders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRightsDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRightsDefenders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Activists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Activists</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Wet'suwet'en Testify on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceBrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceBrutality</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Imprisonment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Imprisonment</span></a>, at Inter-American Commission on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a></p><p>By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 10, 2023</p><p>"Wet’suwet’en described their struggle to defend their land, waters, and rights to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IACHR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IACHR</span></a>) in a virtual hearing. Joined by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmnestyInternational" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmnestyInternational</span></a>, representatives from the Nation described the ongoing unjust <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/criminalization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>criminalization</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/harassment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>harassment</span></a> of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LandDefenders</span></a> opposing the construction of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CoastalGasLink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoastalGasLink</span></a> (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CGL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CGL</span></a>) <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pipeline</span></a> through Wet’suwet’en territory. The Canadian government responded to the testimony of the Wet’suwet’en delegation. The testimony described the attacks on the Nation’s rights, including the right to free, prior and informed consent to resource-extraction projects affecting their territory, as upheld in the UN’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples."<br> <br>Read more:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/wetsuweten-testify-on-police-brutality.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07</span><span class="invisible">/wetsuweten-testify-on-police-brutality.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ACAB</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wetsuweten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wetsuweten</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousNews</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UN</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeclarationOfRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeclarationOfRights</span></a> of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pipelines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pipelines</span></a></p>
AutisticMumTo3<p>Indigenous rights: U'wa make history in case against extractivism<br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> <br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/UwaNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UwaNation</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/IACHR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IACHR</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Colombia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Colombia</span></a> <br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Extractivism</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/EcoTourism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EcoTourism</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Resguardo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resguardo</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Reserves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reserves</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Samore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Samore</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Oxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oxy</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Ecopetrol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ecopetrol</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/CapitalistCorporations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CapitalistCorporations</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Corporations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corporations</span></a> </p><p> <a href="https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2023/04/28/historic-case-at-international-tribunal-shows-that-states-must-put-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples-above-extractive-interests/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thecanary.co/global/world-anal</span><span class="invisible">ysis/2023/04/28/historic-case-at-international-tribunal-shows-that-states-must-put-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples-above-extractive-interests/</span></a></p>
Miguel Suarez Smiz<p><a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/Colombia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Colombia</span></a> to pay <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/reparations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reparations</span></a></p><p><a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/iachr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iachr</span></a> concludes state allowed extermination of <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/PatrioticUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PatrioticUnion</span></a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/unionpatriotica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unionpatriotica</span></a> party members in 1980s</p><p>The <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/UP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UP</span></a> was a political party created out of a peace process with the Revolutionary Armed Forces <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/FARC_EP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FARC_EP</span></a> guerrillas in 1985 but 6,000 of its members were wiped out by <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/rightwing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rightwing</span></a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/paramilitaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paramilitaries</span></a>, <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/narcos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>narcos</span></a> &amp; the <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/Colombian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Colombian</span></a> military.</p><p>Oddly, took country's 1st centre-left govt to achieve <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/gustavopetro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gustavopetro</span></a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/justica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>justica</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/01/colombia-reparations-systemic-violence-leftwing-patriotic-union" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2023/feb</span><span class="invisible">/01/colombia-reparations-systemic-violence-leftwing-patriotic-union</span></a></p>
Carwil Bjork-James<p>Time for a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Law</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Introduction</span></a>.</p><p>I'm Anthropologist w/ a courtesy appointment at Vanderbilt Law School, trained in Environmental &amp; Human Rights policy (M.P.P., U Chicago) </p><p>Expertise on <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/IndigenousRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousRights</span></a>, global and regional human rights regimes (<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/IACHR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IACHR</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UNPFII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UNPFII</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UNDRIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UNDRIP</span></a>) , accountability for state violence, and race and law in the USA (incl. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/CRT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CRT</span></a>). </p><p>I maintain a database of Bolivian victims of political violence <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UltimateConsequences" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UltimateConsequences</span></a></p>