ECONOMY: EU Involvement in DRC Mining Project Draws Protest

Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Tuesday, October 28, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Michael Deibert LONDON, Oct 28 (IPS) – The involvement of the European Union in a mining project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has drawn a chorus of protest from local and international human rights [...]

Q&A: ”We Are not Subversives, and We Demand Respect”

Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Saturday, October 25, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Judith Henríquez Acuña interviews indigenous leader DANIEL PIÑACUÉ VILLA RICA, Colombia, Oct 24 (IPS) – Colombian President Álvaro Uribe admitted that the security forces opened fire on indigenous protesters in the southwestern province of Cauca, but [...]