The country’s long-running conflict continues to impact life in many rural areas, which also face threats from illegal mining ...

International support for peace in Colombia must not falter, urges human rights lawyer Luz Marina Monzón Cifuentes, who has ...

increasingly organised illegal gold mining causes considerable harm to the environment and public health. The use of heavy machinery and toxic chemicals such as mercury pollutes rivers, disrupting ...

Peru’s decision to shrink its archeological park home to the famous Nazca Lines by around 42% — an area roughly the size of 1 ...

Donald Trump’s interest in deep-sea mining emerged with awkward timing for the organisers of this month’s UN Ocean Conference in the French coastal city of Nice. In late April the US president signed ...

Opinion: Paul Weiss attorneys explain how corporations operating in countries where cartels and transnational criminal ...

The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a series of resolutions on Harmony with Nature, and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights has issued an advisory opinion stating that environmental ...

I had the opportunity to travel to Bogota, Colombia, to give addresses to the country’s National War College and the New ...

Colombia’s cartels add illegal gold-mining proceeds to their booming business.

Operations by Ecuador’s military following a historic massacre will do little to slow the country's lucrative illegal mining ...

Colombia’s deforestation dropped 33% in early 2025 compared to last year, with significant reductions in Amazon national ...