Topic: resources

40 Days of Protest Against Glamis Gold's Guatemalan Mine End in Blood Shed
Daniel Vogt, Asociación Estoreña Para el Desarrollo Integral (AEPDI)
January 16, 2005 - January 10 marked the fortieth day that platform trailers carryied milling cylinders destined for Glamis Gold's Marlin mine through the western department of San Marcos Guatemala. Since December 3, the convoy of trailers and Glamis Gold mining activity have become objects of the growing opposition to metal mining in the largely indigenous populated highlands.

How Northern Donors Promote Corruption: Tales From the New Mozambique
Joseph Hanlon, Corner House
December 21, 2004 - In Mozambique, corruption was almost non-existent in the 1970s but grew to high levels during the 1990s. At least two forms of corruption --"state capture" (taking control of ministries, judiciary or regulatory agencies for personal or business interests) and "administrative corruption" (making unofficial payments to get officials to flout or to apply existing laws, rules and regulations)-- are now rampant in the country. Joseph Hanlon of the Open University, UK, who has written extensively on Mozambique for over 20 years, outlines how increasing intervention by international financial institutions, such as the World Bank, and bilateral aid donors in support of economic liberalisation is one of the primary causes of this growth in corruption. . . . Read More

Court Orders Protection for Colombian Indigenous Group
Constanza Vieira, Inter Press Service (IPS)
July 23, 2004 - The Colombian government is called to outline the steps it has taken to protect the Kankuamo indigenous people from mass killings by paramilitaries. A ruling came form the courts last week in repsonse to the cry for help coming from the remote Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain chain in northern Colombia. The Colombian government has been ordered ''to protect the life and personal integrity'' of all members of the Kankuamo indigenous communities who have been facing increasin violence in the shadow of a dam project which has been encroaching on Kankuamo land for the last several years.

Access To Land: Land Reform and Security of Tenure
Peter Rosset, Co-Director
February 17, 2004 - Access to land and security of tenure are critical elements in alleviating rural poverty and moving toward a world where food security and the absence of hunger are a reality for all. At the 1996 World Food Summit in Rome, the governments of the world agreed upon a declaration to reduce hunger by one half in the year 2015. This paper reviews the original commitments made in 1996, and the overall lack of progress by governments in meeting them.