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Barrick Gold on trial in Canada Allegations of extreme violence at North Mara Gold mine in Tanzania
In the aftermath of the October 7, 2024 settlement of longstanding lawsuits against Hudbay Minerals in Canadian courts, Rights Action shares this information about in court hearings that began in Toronto on behalf of 32 plaintiffs from Tanzania against Barrick Gold Corporation.
WAKE UP! Musical, multi-media presentation honoring life, vision & political struggles led by Berta Caceres
Musical, multi-media presentation honoring life, vision & political struggles led by Berta Caceres
URGENT ACTION! Garifuna leaders in community of Nueva Armenia shot at by Honduras National Police
Multi-generational land theft & ethnocide continue, unabated, against Garifuna people on Caribbean north shore of Honduras
Below: Urgent action prepared by Honduras Program of Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective (WfPSC)
“The First Live-Streamed Genocide” “Gaza has been transformed into an industrial-scale slaughterhouse”
Below: Rights Action recommends watching Democracy Now interview with makers of “The First Live-Streamed Genocide” documentary, watching the film, sharing this information widely
Guatemalan Plaintiffs reach fair and reasonable settlement in Canadian mining lawsuits
Rights Action, the Guatemalan Plaintiffs and their lawyers in Canada are pleased to share this press release regarding longstanding lawsuits against Hudbay Minerals. The parties have agreed to a quiet period following the settlement, to allow for everyone, and in particular the Plaintiffs, to focus on getting on with their lives.
15th Anniversary Killing of Adolfo Ich / Shooting-paralyzing of German Chub
Rights Action remembers and honors Adolfo Ich Chaman, a Mayan Q’eqchi’ land and community defender, killed September 27, 2009 by security guards working at the Fenix Mine operation in El Estor, Guatemala.
U.S. investors attempting to extort billions of dollars from Honduras
Another battle heats up in Honduras related to the Prospera Inc. “private city” investment scheme that was initiated during 13 years of the corrupt, repressive, military-backed regime of then President / now jailed drug-trafficker Juan Orlando Hernadez.
Israeli starvation campaign part of displacing Palestinians from their land
In a new report “Starvation and the Right to Food, the U.N. special rapporteur on the right to food accuses Israel of carrying out a starvation campaign in Gaza.
“What Israel is trying to do is to make sure the Palestinian people can’t feed themselves. This starvation campaign is part of displacing Palestinians from their land, and it’s part of a plan to annex not just Gaza but the West Bank as well.”
Assassination of Juan Lopez, Honduran water defender & mining resistance leader
Hidden connection between US steel company NUCOR Corp. & Los Pinares (Guapinol) mine in Honduras
OFRANEH & Garifuna people against ethnocidal violence & land theft
Rights Action sends this overdue update on the visionary, courageous work of OFRANEH that Rights Action has funded and supported since 1998. Since 1979, OFRANEH (Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras) has been at the forefront of defending Garifuna land, territory and rights against ethnocidal violence and land theft carried out over decades by mainly corrupt, repressive ‘open for global business’ governments in power and international tourism investors, African palm producers, the mining industry and narco-trafficking.