Year: 2011
Study Finds That Nearly Every Woman Living with HIV and AIDs in Brazil has Suffered Violence
Source: Akimbo A new report issued by the non-governmental organization Gestos highlights the disturbing link between HIV/AIDS and violence against women; according to the study, 97.5% of Brazilian women with HIV have suffered some type […]
Haiti: The Year of Living Dangerously – Part 1
(IPS) – Dieula Rosemond is tired. A lone swaying palm tree yields a little shade over her plastic chair. Her hands are folded in the lap of her white dress. Little girls play with a […]
Acteal, Mexico: Building Autonomy in the Shadow of Repression
Fernando Luna was six years old playing in a mountain side cave with his brother in the beautiful indigenous village of Acteal, Chiapas when they heard the thunderous footsteps and shouts of paramilitaries running by on the land above their heads.
Interview: Afro-Colombian Farmers on Displacement and Resistance
Five years after the alleged demobilization of army-backed paramilitaries in Colombia, violence and human rights abuses remain widespread in the countryside, displaced Afro-Colombian farmers and community leaders Juan Sanchez and Roberto Guzman say.
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A Decade of Refounding Honduras
Source: Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular The beginning of a year always brings with it a series of promises and illusions and of course 2011 is no different. When the boundry of 12 midnight […]
San José of Apartadó, Peace Community: Liberty as a Survival Instinct
Heaven and hell are reversed, traveling to the edge of the abyss, they transform into their opposite: an atrocious war with a community of peace; desperation with hope; life and death dance in an impossible trance. This is Colombia. Where peasants tired of war take refuge in peace in order to continue living. This is the story of a visit to the community from the perspective of a supportive photographer.
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