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As the eyes of the world have been on Gaza, violence in the West Bank has been escalating to near record levels. According to a report(link is external) by the United Nations Works and Relief Agency (UNWRA), 40,000 Palestinians in the West Bank have been displaced by Israeli forces in just the first two months of 2025, making this the largest displacement of civilians since 1967. These forced removals occur alongside the highest rates of Israeli settler terrorism in the West Bank in over two decades.

In a village just a few kilometers away from the Ngorongoro Crater – a top tourist destination in Tanzania – the Maasai celebrate Enkipaata – an ancient rite of passage – where boys become warriors as they transition into adulthood. The threat of forced evictions of over 100,000 Indigenous Maasai in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area now endangers this tradition.

On May 15, 2024, the US Treasury Department sanctioned two Nicaraguan gold companies, Compañía Minera Internacional (COMINTSA) and Capital Mining Investment Nicaragua (“Capital Mining”), claiming that they are bringing in revenue for the Ortega-Murillo regime and are engaging in “corrupt practices.” 1 , Footnotes View all CloseU.S. Department of the Treasury.

Military emissions, excluded from international reporting requirements, account for an estimated five and a half percent of global emissions., Footnotes View allCloseUnited Nations.

Entretien avec Abdoulaye M. Sissoko, Président de l’Association de jeunes pour le développement du village de saboucire (AJDVS)

Abdoulaye M. Sissoko: "Mining companies – both Western and Chinese – are ready to do anything to satisfy their thirst for short-term profits."

On June 27, 2020 a heavy contingent of security officers from the Kenya Forestry Service (KFS) started an operation to flash out grazers at the Logoman Forest station, one of the blocks in the Eastern section of the Mau Forest Complex in Kenya.

In May 2020, the Oakland Institute published an independent report that documented the incessant violence facing the Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities in the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region (RACCN) and provided in depth information about the actors involved -- foreign gold mining firms, national and international actors in logging and cattle ranching, Footnotes View all CloseCalibre Mining Corp.

Over the last two decades, three men have exerted control over a set of massive mining concessions in northeastern Nicaragua known as the Mining Triangle., Footnotes View all CloseDomke Vargas, C.

Whereas widespread human rights suppression in Nicaragua has garnered international attention, violence faced by the Indigenous has gone largely ignored.

My 26-year old nephew, who I had raised as my own son, entered the house, they told him to stop. He stood there with his hands in the air when they shot him.

We have faced attacks since 2006 when the colonos first arrived, but the violence escalated in 2015 with the targeting of community leaders.