Guatemalan Mayan Community Seeks International Help for Protection

Rick Kearns
March 26, 2013
The Maya Q’eqchi Agua Caliente community of Guatemala, some of whose members have been killed, threatened and tortured while trying to defend their territory from a mining company,...

Murder With Impunity/Journalists Mowed Down in Honduras

Rick Kearns
August 09, 2012
Journalists are being murdered and threatened at an alarming rate in Honduras, including indigenous broadcasters according to recent testimony before members of the United States C...

Congressional Hearing a First on Indigenous Peoples of Africa

Terri Hansen
May 09, 2011
Critics of an Ethiopian dam they say threatens the water supply of Indigenous tribes traveled halfway round the world to request a hearing in Washington, D.C., succeeded...

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