Mega-events and prostitution
The main danger of violence to sex-workers during major sporting events is from the police, not the punters.
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...
Brazil’s prison massacres – a bloody start to the year
Brazilians began the New Year in the most terrible way, with images of piles of headless, dismembered corpses, the result of a savage massacre...
The four bullets that killed Marielle
22 March 2018. Marielle Franco was executed with four bullets. One each for racism, misogyny, homophobia and impunity.
By killing Marielle, the assassins eliminated not...
Mexico: the politics of Memory
The disappearance of 43 student teachers at Ayotzinapa has brought the issue of 'memoria' to the fore. Relatives do not want monuments. "You took them away alive, we want them back alive", they say.
Brazil 1964: Never again!
March 31 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the military coup in Brazil, which ushered in the era of dictatorships in Latin America.
Violence in Rio escalates with murder of city councillor
Little did she know that she would be the next victim when Marielle Franco, a left-wing city councillor, penned her last twitter post, denouncing...
Brazil: indigenous lives matter
São Paulo, 15 March. Despairing of finding justice in Brazil, cacique Ladio Veron of the Guarani Kaiowá indigenous people in Mato Grosso do Sul, ...
Brazil – serious setback on children’s rights looms
The Brazilian Congress, now dominated by the right, may soon vote to lower the age of criminal responsibility from 18 to 16.
Colombia: street art and social justice in Bogotá
A virtual dialogue was organised to discuss Alba Griffin's new chapter in Pedagogías de la disidencia en América Latina, titled ‘No Somos Falsos Somos Positivos: teorías vernáculas sobre la violencia política y cotidiana en el puente del grafitero’.