Paraguay: the Paĩ Tavyterã and the changing climate
Paĩ Tavyterã Indigenous communities are employing ancestral knowledge and advocacy against the impacts of climate change
Idalina Tatter – a powerful voice against transnational state terror
Paraguayan Idalina Tatter campaigned tirelessly, in search of her husband Federico Jorge Tatter, arrested in Argentina and rendered back to Paraguay by agents of Operación Condor. Her life and work is documented in the CAMeNA archive in Mexico
Migration & displacement – LAB Newsletter July 2019
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend,
31 July 2019
Migration
and Displacement at crisis point
In addition to our website, LAB’s Facebook page provides a daily stream of summaries...
Paraguay: a working example of communal land
The Mbyju’i Communal Land Association: protector of the common good.
by Andrew Nickson
Origin: The association goes back to the old days when, lacking land of...
Tekoha Sauce: community fights to recover land at Itaipú
Written for LAB by William Costa
'We were very happy when we lived on the banks of the Paraná River. We had our houses, we...
Your summer BBQ – devastation for Paraguay
BBQs across Europe are fuelling one of the world’s most pressing environmental crises, the rampant destruction of the Gran Chaco in South America.
An investigation...
Fundación Paraguay Cultura
We work in culture and academic education in different fields, linking universities and social organizations of Paraguay with regional similar actors. We also support...
Planned Tapajós industrial waterway — a potential environmental disaster
The Brazilian government has unexpectedly cancelled the large São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric dam yet, as a timely new study makes clear, immense social and environmental challenges still loom for the Tapajós river valley,
Paraguay: Curuguaty paved the way for the multinationals
A leading rural workers' rights activist speaks out about the steady concentration of land and political power and the ethnocide of rural peoples.
Paraguay: a bitter mother’s day for a 10-year-old who is pregnant
Herself weighing only 34 kilos, she is pregnant after being raped by her stepfather. The church, law and the government say she cannot have an abortion. Paraguay is divided.