Protecting the Amazon rainforest: make indigenous communities the priority
Commenting on UK prime minister Boris Johnson's announcement of new funding to tackle deforestation in the Amazon, Christian Aid’s Bolivia country ...
Colombia´s anti-drugs policies: evidence versus ideology
In Colombia, a new voluntary crop substitution programme was designed with participation of many of the small-scale coca producers themselves. This was a key...
Central America awaits second hurricane
Nicaragua and Honduras brace themselves, as Christian Aid continues its response to the ongoing emergency
The category 5 Hurricane Iota is due to make landfall...
Colombia: the peace process merits cautious optimism
As peace activists, we have become too accustomed to share bad news. However, on this occasion I’m glad to be able to say that,...
Bolivia: 50 NGOs offer to work for peace
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More than 50 development and human rights institutions in Bolivia have come together to appeal for a peaceful solution as the country is plunged...
Brumadinho: two years after the disaster
Many communities remain unsafe and uncompensated in Brumadinho, Brazil, two years after the worst dam disaster in Latin American history at the Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine in south-eastern Brazil on 25 January, 2018, which left up to 270 people dead.
Honduras: between electoral fraud and popular uprising
A week on from the general elections held in Honduras, on 27 November, there is still no definitive result. The main candidates are presidential...
Brazil: indigenous lands in São Paulo state under threat
About 600 indigenous people living in eight villages located in the city of Peruíbe, on the coast of São Paulo state, are at risk...
Brazil’s elections: Christian churches sound the alarm
On Sunday 28 October, Brazil will elect a new President in the middle of the worst political crisis since the dictatorship in the 1960s....
The Brumadinho dam collapse: six months on
This edited extract from Christian Aid Brazil Programme's newsletter, updates and expands on the earlier article published by LAB. 'The lessons of Brumadinho: put...