State agents target journalists while governments claim to protect them
This shocking investigation into the threats journalists in Mexico and Honduras face from state employees – even when enrolled in 'government protection schemes', was...
Ecuador’s presidential elections 2025
What do deep divisions within Pachakutik, Correísmo’s troubled history with the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and of Nature, and the ongoing demonization of Fernando...
El Salvador: human rights defender arrested
The Bukele government in El Salvador, as well as locking up thousands of alleged gang members is now extending its attacks to communities and those who seek to defend their human rights and their land.
Justice denied: obstetric violence in Argentina
The extreme backlash against feminism and subsequent attack on women's rights by the government in Argentina has impacted women in different ways. One victim...
Equality under attack in Argentina
‘People are feeling impotent; marching raises our hopes’, says Claudia Hasanbegovic, the femicide lawyer WRV's Marilyn Thomson spoke to for this alarming piece on...
Indigenous leader Marisol Garcia Apagueño on the hidden costs of carbon...
In this interview with LAB contributor Maozya Murray, Túpac Amaru activist Marisol discusses Kichwa resistance to the Cordillera Azul National Park and what it...
Trump’s war against Brazilian justice
Social media platform Rumble was ordered to suspend accounts of a Brazilian far-right influencer. It did not comply. So Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered it to shut down. Now Rumble and Trump (via 'Truth' Social) are using the US courts to attack the Brazilian judiciary, accusing it of attacking free speech.
Confronting racism and gendered violence in Guerrero
On 27 January 2025, the collective Mujeres Colibrí, Defensoras de la Vida (Hummingbird Women, Defenders of Life) presented their research on the multiple forms of violence experienced by Indigenous and Afro-descendant women in the state of Guerrero, Mexico, to state representatives and local media.
Enterrado vivo: el Covid en Iquitos
El «tío COVID», un hombre que sobrevivió tras ser enterrado en un cementerio colectivo secreto de Iquitos se ha convertido en un símbolo macabro del desastre en que se vio sumida la ciudad de Iquitos, en la Amazonía peruana, donde el 70% de los habitantes habían sido infectados por el COVID-19 en julio de 2020. Un sistema sanitario decrépito, una aguda falta de oxígeno médico, la pobreza, la corrupción de las élites locales y el poder de las bandas criminales conspiraron para agravar esta catástrofe.
Mexico: abandoned baby case rekindles abortion debate
A new-born baby discovered abandoned in a plastic bag sparked a public furore, pitting the church and pro-life defenders against advocates of women's right to choose and better sex education and support for young people.
