Rebecca Wilson

The Ferrogrão railway project has been met with resistance from Indigenous peoples who will be impacted by the socio-environmental risks associated with the project.

This month, we focused on Bukele's contraversial footage and gang violence vs. civil rights; Water Defenders and Guapinol activists; attacks on Afro-Colombian memory; Ashaniká women's filmmaking and Chico Mendes' influence in India.

Netflix docu-series 'A Kidnapping Scandal: The Florence Cassez Affair' sheds light on one of Mexico's most controversial corruption cases –without glorifying the horror experienced.

'The Government is responsible for these two murders, and Xiomara Castro must provide an explanation,’ declared ERIC-SJ researcher Joaquín Mejía Rivera, in the wake of the killing of two environmental defenders in Guapinol.

New books, international translations, a documentary film, photobook, events, article series and social media – click through to read about LAB's incredible achievements and performance in the last couple of years.

Museum of Afro-diasporic history in Quibdó, Colombia, was forced to close due to ongoing intimidation and violent threats from armed groups in the Chocó region. US-based academics, Colombian journalists, and Afro-Colombian Vice President Francia Marquez speak out. 

Although the year has just begun, there have already been important and worrying shifts in the region...

In reaction to what justice minister Flavio Dino has already identified as a terrorist attack, Brazilians flocked to the streets of São Paulo, London, New York, and beyond to voice their outrage.

Red Muqui shine a light on police repression and the violation of human rights in the context of recent social unrest in Peru, and dig deeper into the tensions underpinning the protests and the violent state response.

This Stolen Country of Mine is a gripping documentary following resistance leader Paúl Jarrín and investigative journalist Fernando Villavicencio, as they fight to stop the plunder of Ecuador’s natural resources through mining. Directed by German filmmaker Marc Wiese, the shocking film documents what has been called a re-colonization of Ecuador by China, amidst rampant government corruption, and citizens’ fight...