By Anna Hernandez

When Bolivia passed the Law for the Defense of Mother Earth in December 2010, those behind the law, Indigenous leaders, conservationists, and the president were looking to the future. The law would be presented in the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in April in Cochabamba, Bolivia and would go on to become the Universal Declaration for the Rights of Mother Earth, which was taken to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meetings in 2011.

On May 30th, 2016, environmental and social activists from Indigenous Communities across Colombia came together to take part in the National Agrarian, Peasant, Ethnic and Grassroots Mobilization (Minga).

At least four people were killed after police opened fire at a massive protest of several thousand villagers in Bangladesh Monday, April 4th, reported the Phulbari Solidarity Group.

Ngäbe Indigenous Communities from Bocas del Toro and other Indigenous Communities vs.  Panama

Hearing 157 at the Period of Sessions at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

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Caso 12.717 Bocas del Toro Comunidades Ngäbe y otras contra el Estado de Panamá

Audiencia -157° período ordinario de sesionas ante la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos CIDH

Después de 11 años de conflicto socio ambiental entre el Pueblo Indígena Ngäbe y el Estado Panameño, los líderes de la comunidades Bocas del Toro, siguen exigiendo justicia en instancias internacionales.

In Punta Gorda, Belize, charges of assault against two of thirteen Maya leaders were dropped on April 1, 2016, during a hearing for members of the Maya Leaders Alliance (MLA) on charges that were brought against them 10 months ago.