Environment and Human Rights
2000 Developments

06/26/00 U'wa indigenous people suffered injuries by police while protesting against U.S. oil drilling on their traditional lands
04/17/00 Green activitist, Alexandr Nikitin, who was accused of selling state secrets regarding radioactive pollution to a Norwegian environmental group, is acquitted by Russia's Supreme Court
03/31/00 Court injunction blocks Occidental Petroleum Corporation from working at an oil drilling site on land claimed as U'wa tribe ancestral territory
03/24/00 The Ogiek, a hunting and honey gathering indigenous group in Kenya, lose legal battle fighting eviction from their ancestral forest home, court cites environmental protection