Indigenous Mayor Dina Juc is a human rights defender, community organizer, nature rights advocate, and Maya woman of Q’eqchi’ and Poqomchi’ heritage raising her children in K’iche’ territory.
Nearly 20 years after Mexico declared war on organized crime, the violence has metastasized into a crisis of disappearance which implicates both the state and cartels. With official figures now surpassing 133,000 missing, the ‘madres buscadoras,’ or ‘searching mothers’ stand as the last line of accountability in a country where silence is enforced as brutally […]
Activists – especially women – stand firm in the face of an increasingly hostile regime in El Salvador, as opposition mounts against the new mining law which revokes a seven-year metal mining ban. Theo Bradford speaks to some of the leading female voices speaking out. Photography by Kellys Portillo.
Environmental defender Alejandra Parra continues to oppose a waste-to-energy incinerator in the south of Chile, despite rising danger for activists. Lautaro has all the makings of a tourist hotspot. Nestled among emerald lakes, ancient forests, and active volcanoes, it boasts South America’s oldest fish farm, the largest urban park in the Araucanía region, and a […]
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 […]
Moira Millán’s community, Lof Pillañ Mahuiza, has been targeted and raided by government authorities. This piece was republished from the Esperanza Project, who translated the original Spanish with permission from the author. In a press conference, the Governor of Chubut Ignacio Torres claimed –without evidence, and based on disinformation and distorted data– that Mapuche people […]
On 27 January 2025, the collective Mujeres Colibrí, Defensoras de la Vida (Hummingbird Women, Defenders of Life) presented their research on the multiple forms of violence experienced by Indigenous and Afro-descendant women in the state of Guerrero, Mexico, to state representatives and local media.
A new-born baby discovered abandoned in a plastic bag sparked a public furore, pitting the church and pro-life defenders against advocates of women's right to choose and better sex education and support for young people.
LAB council member Elva Narcía Cancino reports from Chiapas, Mexico, where Zapatista indigenous women meet for a training day for Resistance and Rebellion -- against the background of rising levels of violence fueled by drug trafficking gangs and a government which has been ineffectual at best.
