Honduran Indigenous Activist Wins Human Rights Award for Struggle Against Corporate Destruction of Land

June 18, 2016 Upside Down World 0

On June 9, Ana Mirian Romero, a 29-year-old indigenous Lenca woman and mother of five from the department of La Paz, Honduras, was recognized by the European human rights organization Front Line Defenders. Romero was awarded the organization’s annual award for Human Rights Defenders for her work struggling for the recognition of indigenous lands and against the corporate destruction of the environment in Honduras.

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Revolutionary Mothering in Northern Cauca, Colombia

June 18, 2016 Upside Down World 0

Over the past week, hundreds of black women from the region of Northern Cauca, in southwestern Colombia have been participating in the National Inter-Ethnic Agrarian Protest. For the sisters of the Black Women’s Mobilization for the Care of Life and the Ancestral Territories their decision to participate in the national protest was an act of Revolutionary Mothering.

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Argentina: Crónica del desastre

June 9, 2016 Upside Down World 0

Fuente: DarioAranda.com / www.lavaca.org El notable crecimiento de casos de niños con enfermedades y malformaciones en el Chaco. La muerte de un fumigador de agrotóxicos: cáncer a los 40 años. La inoperancia o la complicidad […]

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