Help save the Awá Indians
Survival International is launching a campaign today (25 April 2012) to save the Awá – one of Brazil's two remaining tribes of nomadic hunter gatherers. They are the world's most threatened indigenous tribe.
Rio de Janeiro: the ‘pacification’ of the favelas
The idea is to put an end to the 'divided city' but, says Verena Brähler, the risk now is of creating a city with 'divided favelas'.
Brazil: Fighting GMOs
AS-PTA is a leading Brazilian NGO, which works with local farmers in the promotion of agro-ecology. In an interview with LAB, it says that in the long term it is confident that the battle against the bio-tech companies will be won.
The return of politics to Brazil
Luiz Werneck Vianna, a lecturer in sociology at the Catholic University (PUC) in Rio, believes that politics will re-emerge forcefully in Brazil over the next few years.
The voices that Dilma ignores
Eliane Brum, the influential Brazilian journalist, says that Brazil's president is not listening to women in the Amazon.
Brazil: pressure for agrarian reform
A broad range of social movements are calling for a more ambitious programme of agrarian reform. LAB's Francis McDonagh reports from Sao Paulo.
Brazil: the Carbon Credit Bonanza
Brazil: the Carbon Credit Bonanza. Celestial Green Ventures, a carbon trading company based in Ireland, has been quietly signing contracts with a series of indigenous groups in the Amazon.
Brazil: life for women under Dilma
When Dilma Rousseff became Brazil's first female president in January 2011, women had high expectations.Brazilian journalist Tatiana Farah looks atwhat she has achieved so far.
The Prison Crisis in Latin America: Comayagua and elsewhere
Following the disastrous fire in Comayagua Prison, Honduras, Sonja Wolf analyses the disgraceful state of the continent's penitentiaries.
South America’s ‘Brown Left’
Many governments in South America see themselves as progressive, yet all are involved in conflicts over the environment.