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Letter to UNHRC about Political Exploitation of Indigenous Communities in Nicaragua

Letter to UNHRC about Political Exploitation of Indigenous Communities in Nicaragua

October 31, 2021

This letter, signed by solidarity, human rights, religious, labor and other organizations, has been sent to the UN Human Rights Council and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. It denounces the misrepresentation and exploitation of disputes over land in Nicaragua’s autonomous Indigenous territories for political purposes by local and international organizations which claim to represent […]

Category: Latin America, Energy and the environment | Tags: Nicaragua, Bosawás, hum

Nicaraguan police inspect an abandoned mining camp at Kiwakumbai in the Bosawás reserve. Photo: www.tortillaconsal.com

Nicaragua’s Rainforest and Indigenous Peoples: a Story of Falsehood, Lies and US-based Political Campaigns

September 26, 2021

Indigenous peoples and the rainforests that many inhabit are under threat. Everyone knows it. In Latin America especially, international NGOs like Global Witness and Frontline Defenders tell a story which seems self-evidently true: outsiders are exploiting natural resources, governments are indifferent or actively complicit, Indigenous people defend the forests and in return face expulsion or […]

Category: Latin America, Energy and the environment | Tags: Nicaragua, environment, caribbean, Bosawás

From the new report "Nicaragua’s Indigenous Peoples – Neocolonial Lies, Autonomous Reality"

Nicaragua rebuffs attacks at human rights hearing

March 25, 2021

Nicaragua was one of the first countries in Latin America to give constitutional rights to its Indigenous peoples and its laws to protect their territories are justly famous (especially the Autonomy Law of 1986 and the Demarcation Law of 2003). Some 40,000 Indigenous families live in areas that are legally owned and administered by over […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: caribbean, human rights, Bosawás, Nicaragua, environment | 3 Responses

Progressive Media Promoted a False Story of ‘Conflict Beef’ From Nicaragua

Progressive Media Promoted a False Story of ‘Conflict Beef’ From Nicaragua

December 5, 2020

In October Two Worlds reported on news stories appearing in the US, calling for a boycott of meat imports from Nicaragua. Attempts were made to persuade Reveal News and PBS Newshour to correct their stories or provide a right of reply. They refused, hence the following article published by the website FAIR, which aims to […]

Category: Latin America, Energy and the environment | Tags: Nicaragua, environment, US intervention, media, Bosawás

Export beef cattle are properly tagged and identified and cannot come from reserves. Photo: El19Digital.com

Branding Nicaraguan meat as ‘conflict beef’ is the latest US political attack

October 29, 2020

Earlier this year Nicaragua’s opposition and its supporters in the international media were promoting stories about the Sandinista government’s “failure” to address the Covid-19 pandemic. This backfired when Nicaragua became the first country in Central America to get the virus under control. Next they claimed that Sandinista supporters were attacking Catholic churches, but then it […]

Category: Latin America, Energy and the environment | Tags: Bosawás, Nicaragua, environment, caribbean

Global Witness fails to respond to detailed criticisms

August 6, 2017

Criticism of the organisation Global Witness and the coverage of Nicaragua in its latest report on ‘environmental defenders’ has so far failed to shift its stance, or even to persuade it to look in detail at the arguments. Here are the latest developments. The Two Worlds article published on July 16 was accompanied by emails […]

Category: Latin America, Energy and the environment | Tags: Nicaragua, environment, US intervention, Bosawás | 3 Responses

Is Nicaragua really the world's ‘most dangerous country’ to be an environmental defender?

Is Nicaragua really the world’s ‘most dangerous country’ to be an environmental defender?

July 16, 2017

Under a picture of the renowned environmentalist Berta Cáceres, murdered in Honduras last year, the Guardian has launched a major and much-needed project looking at worldwide deaths of environmental defenders. It’s doing this in collaboration with Global Witness, which keeps an ongoing register of such assassinations. To do this it needs to make some difficult […]

Category: Latin America, Energy and the environment | Tags: Honduras, Nicaragua, environment, media, Latin America, Berta Cáceres, Bosawás | 8 Responses

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