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Indigenous people in Guyana have received some payments from a government scheme, selling carbon credits to US oil company Hess. But they were not consulted and were forced to reach a decision in haste. They feel that this was a scheme designed by the government for its own purposes, and in which they had no real say.

A community of Indigenous Guna people were relocated from their island of Gardí Sugdub in the Caribbean Sea to a new mainland settlement. They are the first island community to be recognized by the government as victims of forced displacement driven by climate change. 

I am the mole that destroys the state from within.’ The phrase, uttered by Argentinian President Javier Milei describes his ultra-libertarian populist mission. Reality, particularly the economy may not agree, argues Pablo Stafanoni.

The collectively-written book Women Resisting Violence, published in English by LAB in 2022, has now been released online in Spanish by Cita Press. This...

The CAMeNA archive in Mexico City contains fascinating testimony from members of the region's armed forces who remained loyal to constitutions and democracies and stood up (often at the cost of their rank, their liberty and sometimes their lives) against golpistas, the oligarchies and US-inspired National Security doctrines.

Several Latin American countries have strongly criticized Israel's actions in Gaza and have supported Palestinian efforts to achieve recognition and statehood. For this they pay a heavy price, as Israel exacts revenge.

Campesina women in the Tariquía National Reserve stand up against impending gas extraction which will have detrimental impacts on the environment and local communities’ ways of life.

Organic cotton production lifts resettled and Quilombola communities out of poverty in Brazil, but there are challenges to keeping the trade sustainable in the long term.

As the world watches the United States gear up for another presidential election, the potential re-election of Donald Trump raises questions not only about the future of American democracy but also about the fate of global environmental policies.

Documentary film: We Fight For This Land: Ka’apor and Quilombola Communities in Brazil (62”, 2024)Directors: Cahal McLaughlin and Siobhán Wills Quilombo and Indigenous Ka’apor communities...