A new and timely LAB book by anthropologist and environmental rights researcher Jan Schulz, will examine the importance of The Rights of Nature in the battle to defend Indigenous territories in Ecuador, Colombia and Peru. It explains the origins of this concept, its profound challenge to the 'resources to be exploited by humans' approach to nature, and documents the ways it is being used today with growing success by Indigenous and other rural communities.
In the second of her Amazon on the Brink blogs, LAB author and editor Sue Branford looks at the climate science and relays the warning from veteran climatologist James Hanson about the dangers of a ‘super El Niño’, and the consequences for the rainforest. Fires, though often set deliberately, are now a greater danger than deforestation.
In the first of a new series of blogs, LAB author and editor Sue Branford returns to the subject closest to her heart: the survival of the Amazon rainforest and the communities and peoples that live there – a matter of crucial importance not only for themselves, for Brazil and the other countries of the Amazon basin, but for the planet and the climatic and ecosystems on which human life depends.
At London Climate Action Week, Indigenous women, especially from Latin America, featured prominently as leaders of their communities and territories
A million Mexican supporters gathered to cheer their national team as it progressed to the knock-out stage of the World Cup, due to play England on 5 July. The country's 130,000 disappeared people will not be present. Yet the tide of hope aroused by football offers a way to defeat violence and despair.
Jenny Pearce on De la Espriella's victory and her new book ¿Quién manda en Colombia?
Fishing communities in Brazil are demanding legal recognition of 'marétorios' as Marine Spatial Planning and offshore wind expansion threaten traditional territories and livelihoods in the Amazônia Azul.
30 years since the massacre by military police of landless workers at Eldorado do Carajás, in Pará, Brazil, life remains precarious and dangerous. Pará state has seen over 1,000 murdered in the last 45 years. Impunity still reigns.
The Amazon produces vast quantities of food, yet millions still face hunger. This article examines the links between environmental justice, inequality, food sovereignty, and COP30 in Brazil, arguing that the issue is not production, but the system that governs distribution.
As Belém prepared for COP30, urban redevelopment projects deepened long-standing inequalities between the city centre and the baixadas, where rivers continue to disappear beneath concrete channels. Written before COP30 all the issues remain valid today for Belém and other cities hosting major international events.
