Democracy

Turkey: Attacking the Kurds, regime destroys democracy
Brazil: A blow from above after a collapse from below
Turkey: Kurdish activists tortured
In post-coup Honduras, liberation far from realised
Colombia: Government apologises for mass killings of leftists
Australia faces court for stealing East Timor’s oil and gas
17-year-olds out of Queensland adult prisons

THE Queensland government announced on September 7 that it will move all 17-year-olds out of adult prisons within 12 months of new laws being passed.
Indonesia: Australia and other Western powers complicit in 1965 massacres, tribunal finds
Argentina: Indigenous community launches anti-fracking fight

Mapuche Indigenous communities in the Argentine Patagonian province of Neuquen have denounced fracking in the Vaca Muerta shale reserves, which they claim are contaminating their land and groundwater, killing their livestock.
Sue Bolton: 'a true community leader'
Treaty candidate takes seat of Nhulunbuy
Dakota pipeline struggle: Native Americans versus fossil fuels