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Dear Secretary of State Kerry, We write in shock and deep sorrow regarding the murder of Honduran human rights and environmental defender Berta Cáceres, founder and general secretary of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras...

Murders over land disputes have been on the rise worldwide, but the problem is especially severe in Latin America. This article was originally published on Mongabay. At least 185 environmental activists were murdered worldwide in 2015, nearly two-thirds...

August 9, 2016; Center for International Environmental Law Worldwide, according to UK-based NGO Global Witness, in 2015 there were 185 individuals killed in 16 countries while defending their land, forests, and rivers against industrial encroachment...

In Mexico there is a trail of ghost towns, where local residents have fled en masse due to the violence of the drug cartels. On empty streets in Santa Ana del Águila, in the municipality of Ajuchitlán del Progreso, Guerrero state, bullet marks can be...

When opposition to the Dakota Access pipeline galvanized the support of hundreds of U.S. tribes, it became an unprecedented show of Indian Country unity and resolve. Now, it’s a global indigenous movement. Members of tribal communities from around...