Rebecca Wilson

Colombia is at a crucial point as major projects led by Gustavo Petro’s government have hinged the country’s future on the promises of the energy transition. But this transition will not benefit people in Colombia by default. We hear from environmental defenders working across the coal corridor to protect their territories and ensure no one is left behind as mines close and renewable energy projects begin. 

On the anniversary of the deadliest volcanic eruption of the last 100 years, Colombians are using the power of dance to heal generational trauma...

Indigenous Mayor Dina Juc is a human rights defender, community organizer, nature rights advocate, and Maya woman of Q’eqchi’ and Poqomchi’ heritage raising her children in K’iche’ territory.

Nearly 20 years after Mexico declared war on organized crime, the violence has metastasized into a crisis of disappearance which implicates both the state...

'What The Congress of the Disappeared ultimately shows us is that Brazil is a nation that has never truly reconciled with its past. Now...

In Oaxaca, southern Mexico, communities are organizing to resist the large-scale private extraction of sand and gravel from the Río Grande, which is wiping...

Despite the Public Prosecutor’s Office denouncing the practice, the state of São Paulo was still burying identified bodies in anonymous graves in public cemeteries...

Amid industrial pressure and legal rollbacks, a grassroots women's network fights for ancestral marine rights and cultural survival in Chile. ‘If they take the sea...

Despite the fact that Jair Bolsonaro used digital militias to take down his enemies, propagated fake news on a vast scale and pursued antidemocratic acts against Brazil’s institutions, many Brazilians do not accept that their ex-president is guilty, as the supreme court decided last week. This piece has been republished from The Conversation. You can view the original here.

In the Peruvian Amazon, the roar of bulldozers is intruding on the ancestral lands of one of the world’s last isolated tribes. The Mashco...