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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...

In her latest project COST, Monica Perez unravels the thread between England and Uruguay, exploring the raw wool trade and the displacement and erasure of Indigenous communities. 

In March 2025, the rivers of Esmeraldas, an Ecuadorian province that for decades has suffered from the social and environmental impacts of the petrochemical industry, were heavily polluted by a 25,000-barrel crude oil spill. Afro-descendant communities, environmental defenders organized in solidarity networks, and local universities continue agitating the murky waters of a disaster the country would prefer had sunk into oblivion.

In the lead-up to the COP30 Climate Summit, which will take place in Belém, Brazil, 10-21 November 2025, LAB joined forces with the NGO...

Bolivia’s Madidi National Park is considered to be the most biodiverse place on planet earth. The Uchupiamonas people, who call the park home, are in a constant battle against forces eager to exploit the protected area for its wildlife, hydroelectric potential, hardwoods, and gold. In the short film Voices for Madidi - Voces por el Madidi, we hear from environmental defenders on the frontlines. The director tells us more.

How to Save The Amazon: This testimony book by the assassinated journalist lays bare the tragedy of Amazônia – of which he himself came to be one of the most painful examples – but also its uniquely marvelous nature.

In the Bolivian highlands, the Indigenous community of Cala Cala is waging a battle to defend the headwaters of its river from mining. What...