by Katie Surma | Sep 16, 2026 | brazil, Colombia, Criminalization, Daniel Noboa, Daniel Ortega, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, environmental defenders, extractive economy, extractive industries, Guatemala, Honduras, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Resistance, Indonesia, Land Defenders, mexico, Mining, News, Nicaragua, Peru, Philippines, Repression, Trump Administration, USAID, USAID cuts
Every three days someone is killed for defending nature. In 2025, watchdog group Global Witness documented 124 such deaths worldwide, a toll researchers say is likely only a fraction of the total number because repression and armed conflict make many deaths impossible to verify. The victims included Indigenous people, small-scale farmers and community organizers peacefully protecting…
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by Sasha Abramsky | Jun 5, 2026 | CDC, Democratic Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, diseases, DRC, Ebola, Ebola outbreak, News, Public Health, Trump Administration, USAID, USAID cuts, WHO
In 2018, when the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) experienced a severe Ebola outbreak, more than 30 experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), close to 20 disaster-response specialists from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and 120 additional USAID staff were on the ground attempting to manage the outbreak, according to estimates from Friends of…
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