This shocking investigation into the threats journalists in Mexico and Honduras face from state employees – even when enrolled in ‘government protection schemes’, was first published by The Conversation, here. Humberto Padgett was reporting on the effects of drought in Cuitzeo, a rural area of central Mexico, when his car was intercepted by armed men on September […]
Influenced by the example of the Madres y Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, in 1995, HIJOS - Sons and Daughters for the Assertion of Identity and Justice Against Oblivion and Silence - became a powerful voice in the struggle against impunity in Argentina, enabling hundreds of young people to find a safe space to speak up and reconstruct their identity.
In the latest of ongoing violent attacks against the rural community of Lajeb Kej, private security forces destroy the resident families’ homes and force them off their land located in Alta Verapaz, a department in the mountainous northern and central highland regions of Guatemala, infamous for land disputes and forced displacement. On 22 January 2025, […]
In the run-up to Ecuador’s presidential elections on 13 April 2025, the two leading candidates, Daniel Noboa of the Acción Democrática Nacional (AND), and Luisa González, leader of former president Rafael Correa’s Citizens Revolution party, faced the challenge of wresting control of the country from local narco-traffickers and gang leaders. With Noboa remaining president, Ecuador’s […]
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 Villavicencio have to do with Ecuador’s recent presidential elections? Linda Etchart reports. In the run-off to the presidential elections on 13 April 2025, Luisa González’s chances of winning the Presidency for […]
A local fishing community does not feel adequately compensated and Repsol must do more to repair the damage, write researchers. This piece by Rocío López De La Lama, Aurora Maguiña, and Patricia Sangiorgi was originally published by our partner Dialogue Earth. In January 2022, crude oil began leaking into the Pacific Ocean near the site of La […]
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.
The arrest in London of General Pinochet, with a view to his extradition to Spain on charges of crimes against humanity had an extraordinary impact in Chile, among the Chilean diaspora and around the world. Beatrice Twentyman looks at this impact.
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 of this violent wave is Carolina Sigal Fogliani, whose story, a representation of the physical and psychological abuse of pregnant women and the violation of their maternity rights in Argentina, LAB […]
‘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 the backlash against feminism in Argentina under Milei and civil demonstrations resisting against it. Thousands upon thousands of people have been taking to the streets in Argentina since President Milei came […]
