Bem Viver: the inspiring role of young people
Rios de Encontro (Rivers of Meeting), is an eco-cultural and socio-educational project based in the community of Cabelo Seco, Pará, Brazil. The project spent...
Peru: factory fire exposes child labour and modern slavery
A factory fire on June 22 in the Las Malvinas district of Lima, Peru, that killed four young people has drawn official and international...
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
Venezuela lags behind on women’s and LGBT rights
Venezuela's opposition parties reject quotas for women election candidates, but the government's own record on gender lags behind most countries in the Region.
Paraguay: a bitter mother’s day for a 10-year-old who is pregnant
Herself weighing only 34 kilos, she is pregnant after being raped by her stepfather. The church, law and the government say she cannot have an abortion. Paraguay is divided.
Chile: President Bachelet’s reform agenda
In her second term as president, Michelle Bachelet seems in a hurry to push through wide-ranging reforms, despite opposition in Congress and a dip in her popularity ratings
Stories from El Salvador
A photography exhibition and a theatre play bring the problems of reconciliation and healing in a divided society like El Salvador to London audiences.
Latin America — Trafficking in Women and Girls
It is estimated that half a million young women in Latin America and the Caribbean are lured into sexual abuse, with social media playing a key role.
Mexico faces serious political crisis
Protestors all over the country demand an explanation from the government of what has has happened to the 43 disappeared students
UNESCO Declares Bolivia Free of Illiteracy
The South American nation reached the goal after following the programme "Yes I Can" designed by Cuba.