Brazil’s indigenous lands: Bolsonaro draws the battle lines
Parintins, site of Brazil’s big annual indigenous festival, is typical of towns in the Brazilian Amazon. The Sateré, and other indigenous groups...
Stinging ants: Amazon indigenous group girds itself to hold ancestral lands
The ancestral home of the Sateré-Mawé indigenous group is the Andirá-Marau Indigenous Reserve, an officially demarcated, heavily forested region covering 780,000 hectares...
How Mexico’s government controls journalism
Journalists in Mexico face many dangers, especially when they're covering the country's ongoing drug war.
Video: Al Jazeera English, May 2018
Rio’s Citizen Journalists fight police brutality
Papo Reto, Portuguese for “Straight Talk”, formed as a citizens’ journalist collective in 2010 in response to government efforts to rid Complexo...
Metamorphosis in Colombia: Guerrillas In Search Of Peace
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In 2016 one of the world’s oldest, largest and best known guerrilla armies,...
Colombia’s struggle for sustainable development
The relationship between the natural environment and the armed conflict in Colombia is deeply interwoven and complex, and the issue of governance is at...
Thanks from Venezuela for Voices of Latin America
Photographer Francisco Elias Prado, of Ojos Ilegales, in Caracas Venezuela, has sent LAB this video. He produced a photo-essay, Transmigración en Movimiento, from which...
El Salvador: reconciliation or impunity?
El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly is expected to vote soon on a controversial new 'Special Law of Transitional and Restorative Justice for National Reconciliation'. Despite...
The Peace Agreement three years on – Afro-Colombian and Indigenous perspectives
Three years ago, the Colombian government and its armed
opponents of fifty years signed a peace agreement that offered a framework for
ending violent conflict and...
Colombia peace process at risk
COMMUNIQUÉ: COLOMBIA’S PEACE PROCESS AT RISK
International civil society organizations make clear their grave concerns for the serious humanitarian and civil rights crisis in Colombia,...