Thursday, March 28, 2024

Poverty & Inequality

Argentina – struggle continues for the Qom

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Representatives of the Qom indigenous people are camped in the iconic Plaza de Mayo to demand their rights. Life is worse today, they say, than under the military dictatorship

UNESCO Declares Bolivia Free of Illiteracy

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The South American nation reached the goal after following the programme "Yes I Can" designed by Cuba.

Polarisation and Prospects for Social Harmony in Venezuela

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Hugo Chávez needs to address the deep divisions in Venezuelan society.

Brazil’s environment is under stress

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With forest fires in the Amazon and a terrible dam burst in Minas Gerais, Brazil is paying the cost of its failure to regulate properly human activities

Brazil: indigenous lives matter

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São Paulo, 15 March. Despairing of  finding justice in Brazil, cacique Ladio Veron of the Guarani Kaiowá indigenous people in Mato Grosso do Sul, ...

Guatemala: the void left by empty classrooms

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Sunset over Guatemala City marks another day of widening inequality and increasing despair as Covid-19 cases continue to rise. With the country’s informal economy...

Colombia: stairway storytellers in Medellín

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Sulay Pino is waiting for us at the main entrance to the San Javier metro station wearing a bright green t-shirt that reads ‘Stairway...

Rosa of the Wild Grass – The Story of a Nicaraguan...

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From the days of the Somoza dictatorship, through insurrection, the Sandinista victory, the Contra war, election defeat, the struggle for survival up to 2013: three generations of the women of one peasant family tell their story

Brazil – serious setback on children’s rights looms

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The Brazilian Congress, now dominated by the right, may soon vote to lower the age of criminal responsibility from 18 to 16.

Rio de Janeiro: This land is our land

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What do you do if you’re living on public land, in a house that your great-grandparents built in an era before strict housing regulations,...

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