The Putumayo Atrocities
The story of the near-extermination of indigenous communities in the early 1900s at the hands of the Peruvian Amazon Company.
Venezuela: how photos get manipulated
An astonishing catalogue of images posted on social media which turn out to be crude fakes, borrowed from other events in other countries.
Guatemala: violence against women
8 March is celebrated as International Women’s Day. However, in Guatemala for the past three years, the day has been a painful reminder of the long road towards gender equity, and the potentially lethal consequences of continuing misogynistic and violent attitudes towards women.
Mega-events and prostitution
The main danger of violence to sex-workers during major sporting events is from the police, not the punters.
Colombia: the dark side of peace in Tumaco
Where demobilisation of the FARC may leave a dangerous vacuum and increased violence
FEMICIDE IN MEXICO: THE COTTON FIELD CASE AND ITS SEQUELS
Government action is failing lamentably to protect Mexican women from a wave of violence and femicide.
Colombia: what does peace mean in Comuna 13?
24 January. With the new year in Colombia came a new sentence from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, holding the state responsible for...
EL SALVADOR: TRUCE FOR THE GANGS, NO TRUCE FOR WOMEN
A dramatic fall in gang-initiated killings masks ongoing violence against women.
Killing machismo the Colombian way
A new initiative is being made in Bogota to help women stand up to machismo and to get men to change their behaviour
BRAZIL: ENTIRE TRIBES MASSACRED
One of the most important official documents of the last century, listing a long series of crimes and human rights violations inflicted on indigenous groups during the military dictatorship, has just been unearthed.