Mike Gatehouse
Almir Narayamoga Surui, an indigenous leader from the Brazilian Amazon, has been given a prestigious UN Forest Heroes Award for his struggle to protect the forest.
Activists in Marabá are angry that the man accused of murdering Amazon activists José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and Maria do Espírito Santo has been acquitted.
The trampling of indigenous rights, military force used against protesters, impunity, megadams and environmental destruction. Is Brazil returning to the bad old days, asks Bianca Jagger?
In a passionate review of LAB's new book 'K', David Lehmann describes it as a "searing work that hovers between memoir and novel".
The bubble of euphoria that seemed to envelop even normally critical voices in the Roman Catholic Church after the election of Pope Francis was deftly punctured by Ivone Gebara, religious sister and feminist, in this article.
Government action is failing lamentably to protect Mexican women from a wave of violence and femicide.
Interview with Sergia Galvan, Executive Director of Colectiva Mujer y Salud, an organisation that works defending women’s rights in the Dominican Republic.