Source: Green Left Weekly When the paramilitaries of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) arrived in San Onofre in northern Colombia in the late 1990s, they came after dark, dragging people from their homes […]
The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) officially announced a march that will begin during the celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8, in the province of Zamora in the canton of Pangui, and will advance towards the city of Quito, arriving on March 22, World Water Day. The march is designated “National March for the Life and Dignity of the People.”
Amid the current wave of emblematic cases for past state abuses in Guatemala is a lesser-known first: the first accusation against guerrilla leaders to be brought before the Guatemalan justice system, this one for the massacre of 22 people in the mountainside hamlet of El Aguacate by members of the Revolutionary Organization of Armed Peoples (ORPA) in November 1988. The question is, who is this campaign for justice supposed to be serving?
Nearly 300 hundred campesinos, indigenous, students and youth faced off with riot police at the construction sites entrance near the damaged Paso del Colegio Bridge closing off traffic to the entrance of the site, eventually marching to the national highway. At the same time around 90 fisher-people up river of the dam site occupied the tunnel and surrounding beaches until they were apprehended and detained for some time before being released.
(IPS) – Desde hace más de 90 años en Argentina existe una ley que permite a las mujeres acceder al aborto en casos de violación sexual. Sin embargo los hospitales se niegan a realizarlos y […]
La Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador, CONAIE, dio a conocer sobre su convocatoria de manera oficial sobre la marcha que iniciará con motivo de la celebración del día internacional de la mujer el 08 […]
(IPS) – For over 90 years, a law in Argentina has allowed women who become pregnant as a result of rape to have an abortion. However, hospitals often refuse to carry out the procedure, instead […]
According to the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, Mexico’s considerable income gap is widening while the National Council of the Evaluation of Social Development Policy reports that 3.2 million more Mexicans have been plunged into poverty in the last three years; a striking commentary on the economic policies of right-wing, pro-US President Felipe Calderón. […]
Iván Cepeda wrote to United Nations Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon in February about Colombia’s Argos cement corporation. Colombian congressperson Cepeda, who leads the MOVICE human rights group, was testifying as to the dangers of corporate […]
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