Tango against elder abuse
Argentine tango teacher and LGBT activist Edgardo Fernández Sesma made this video for the (15 June) World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. LAB's Nina Meghji...
The world below grows in silence
This important article was originally published in Spanish in August 2019 (read the original here). Cristina Flores has translated it for LAB as...
World Environment Day – call for bold journalism
Where journalism is planted, democracy blooms
Brazilian Network of Environmental Media
June 5, 2020
On this World Environment Day, the environmental media and journalists guarantee that they...
Chile: Censored humanity
Chile's protests were thwarted when the arrival of Coronavirus forced the population to stay at home. As the impact of the quarantine takes its...
Chile’s protesters: no impunity for oppression
This is the second of two articles with testimony from Chile’s protest movements. The first can be read here.
See also our January article 'Chile's...
Chile: the protest movements adapt to Covid-19
This is the first of two articles with testimony from Chile’s protest movements and the impact of Covid-19.
See also our January article 'Chile's long...
Bolsonaro won’t help us with coronavirus
Excellent video from The Guardian showing Brazil's favela-dwellers working hard to implement lock-downs and to supply food and essentials to their communities, while President...
Rapid deforestation may fuel pandemics
Nearly 25,000 COVID-19 cases have
been confirmed in Brazil, with 1,378 deaths as of April 15, though some
experts say this is an underestimate....
Brazil: local activists fill the information vacuum on Covid-19
This article was researched and written by José Cícero da Silva for Agência Pública, LAB’s São Paulo partner
Translated for LAB by Tom Gatehouse. You...
Bolivia: interim government here to stay?
This article was published by Bolivia Information Forum as BIF Bulletin No.47, 20 January 2020.
Weblinks to BIF Bulletins are also available through the BIF...