Brazil's 2026 election has exposed the reach of Rio de Janeiro's criminal militias. From electoral intimidation to corrupt police relationships and diverted firearms, these groups exercise power well beyond their neighbourhoods. What would Flávio Bolsonaro's proposed security policies mean for them?
Beyond the glitz and glamour of the world cup, football has the power to change and rescue lives in some of Colombia's poorest and most endangered communities -- especially for women, children and young people.
The first round of Brazil's presidential election on 4 October gave a slim majority to right-wing candidate Flávio Bolsonaro. LAB's Brazil expert Sue Branford examines the disastrous outlook for the country, and especially for the Amazon, if Bolsonaro wins the run-off on 25 October.
A writer navigating her mother's death while falling into a new love affair. Sara Torres's autofiction questions how we mourn and love.
STOP PRESS: Mónica Feria Tinta will be speaking in London on 17 November, at the launch of LAB’s new book Disputed Territories, the Rights of Nature and the Indigneous Worlds of the Western Amazon, by Jan Schulz. Mónica Feria Tinta is a specialist in public international law and international arbitration, based at Twenty Essex Chambers […]
Peruvian lawyer and UK barrister Monica Feria Tinta talks to LAB's Linda Etchart about environmental protection and the Rights of Nature
When Flávio Bolsonaro proclaims 'The Amazon is Ours', he threatens, if elected in Brazil's 4 October presidental election (or the likely run-off) to condemn Brazil, The Amazon and the world to the continuity of an inheritance from his father Jair's presidency, heredofascism, which threatens the forest, the country and the planet.
As far-right governments ramp up denialist narrative, film directors in Argentina, Chile and Brazil often set their stories in the period of the dictatorships
What does it truly mean to be a feminist? La Lucha is more than just a recounting of suffering at the hands of misogyny. It is a pledge to fight, an act of struggle in the long and varied feminist canon that continues to flourish across the world and that is so often under attack.
The patron saint, the swindler and the supreme court: these are the key ingredients of Brazil’s turbulent, nailbiting presidential election on 4 October, writes Jan Rocha.
