Cholitas: Aymara women conquer the Aconcagua
In this captivating documentary film, Spanish directors Jaime Murciego and Pablo Iraburu present the story of five Bolivian Aymara women as they pursue their dream of climbing the highest mountain in the Americas, the Aconcagua.
International Women’s Day 2023 in Mexico
Gender-based violence continues to be an issue of great urgency in Mexico. Hundreds of thousands of women marched in Mexico City on March 8. Yet, migrant women are excluded from the mainstream movement in Mexico.
The Assassination of Eduardo Mendua
The killing of Ecuadorean indigenous leader Eduardo Mendua provides a text-book example of how extractive projects such as oil drilling divide communities, with often fatal results. The first of a series of articles in which Linda Etchart will 'follow the money' flowing from big oil and mining.
Indigenous Comcaac serve up an oceanic grain to preserve seagrass meadows
The Indigenous Comcaac community of northwestern Mexico is working to preserve eelgrass and promote the renaissance of the grain they obtain from it.
Yanomami crisis sparks action against illegal gold in the Amazon
In January, a wave of outrage swept Brazil after photos and footage of sick and starving Yanomami were made public. Indigenous federal deputy is trying to speed up the vote of a new bill that establishes new rules for the gold trade in Brazil.
Brazil’s Indigenous groups demand a voice in new soybean railway project
The Ferrogrão railway project has been met with resistance from Indigenous peoples who will be impacted by the socio-environmental risks associated with the project.
Chico Mendes an inspiration in India
LAB's 1990 book Fight for the Forest - Chico Mendes in His Own Words is being translated into Bengali by a group in Kolkata, India, campaigning to save a historic avenue of trees. The translator outlines their experience and describes some of the historic envirionmental campaigns in India.
Peru: Women of Influence
Indigenous women from the Junín area of the Peruvian Amazon made their own short films, depicting their lives and the challenges they face.
El Salvador: a cure more harmful than the disease?
A state of emergency and ruthless action by the authorities has dramatically curtailed the activity of gangs which previously ruled vast swathes of El Salvador. But there are many innocent victims and the underlying poverty, inequality and injustice remain untouched.
Crimes against Guapinol defenders reflect neglect from Honduran government
'The Government is responsible for these two murders, and Xiomara Castro must provide an explanation,’ declared ERIC-SJ researcher Joaquín Mejía Rivera, in the wake of the killing of two environmental defenders in Guapinol.