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PNG Gas Boom Not Benefiting Locals

PNG Gas Boom Not Benefiting Locals

A project run by ExxonMobil to supply China and Japan with liquefied gas for the next 30 years is changing life in Papua New Guinea with wildly inequitable results for local people. ...

Is Oil One Reason For Genocide of Rohingya in Burma?

Is Oil One Reason For Genocide of Rohingya in Burma?

Human rights campaigners are warning that further ethnic cleansing of the Rhingya in Burma, which is being exacerbated by land clearances due to economic developments surrounding the Shwe Oil/Gas pipeline, could be i ...

#IdleNoMore – Transnational Indigenous Solidarity

#IdleNoMore – Transnational Indigenous Solidarity

#IdleNoMore is a growing movement of indigenous activism that started with Canada's First Nations taking a stand against a long history of systematic, institutionalized abuse by the Canadian authorities. ...

West Papua – Freeport Workers and Tribesmen Defend Road Blockades

West Papua – Freeport Workers and Tribesmen Defend Road Blockades

Police failed to lift road blockades stopping fuel and food reaching Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold's mining operations in West Papua, after clashes with striking miners and local tribesmen on Friday ...