“We are the Juruna from the Paquiçamba Indigenous Land, and those are our rules to be fulfilled by the government” Since it began its operation in 2015, the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Complex (BMHC) in the state of Pará, Brazil, has led to several environmental adversities. By altering the cycles of the Xingu River, it has interfered in the region’s biodiversity and in...
“We are the Juruna from the Paquiçamba Indigenous Land, and those are our rules to be fulfilled by the government” Since it began its operation in 2015, the Belo Monte Hydroelectric...
Reaching A Boiling Point? Gilgit-Baltistan under CPEC and the Future of US-Pakistan Relations 06 September 2018, 10:30 - 11:45AM | Cannon House Office Building 122 | Washington, DC -- REGISTER...
Several non-governmental organisations in Pakistan’s Sindh region came together to protest outside the Hyderabad Press Club on Monday, 27 August 2018. They criticised the environmental damage caused...
For over six years now, UNPO has increased its presence and support on the American continent. Despite not having formal members in the South of the continent so far, the grants provided by the Nando and...
Three Ogoni women have reportedly been harassed by Shell Petroleum militia. The Nigerian government has yet to denounce the acts. In addition, after decades of continued environmental pollution in Ogoniland,...
On the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples of 2018, leaderships from the “Articulation of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil” (in Portuguese, “Articulação...
All over the world, Indigenous Peoples are struggling to have the rights over their ancestral lands recognized. Contrasted to the processes which companies such as the ones related to the palm oil industry...
Since the time of Mao Zedong’s founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the Chinese government has followed Mao’s belief that even nature is subject to the Party— “even the...
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