Haiti: Empty Promises, Empty Votes
(IPS) – “We are not going to the election in tents. We want housing before elections.” These words were chanted in Creole and held high on placards during a recent demonstration at Haiti’s crumpled National […]
News Briefs
150 Scholars Call on Georgetown to Fire Álvaro Uribe
(Via www.Nacla.org: Editor’s note — This is a republication of a press release issued on September 29, 2010. The document, which was signed by more than 150 scholars, asks Georgetown University to dismiss former Colombian president […]
Honduras: An International Commission Against Impunity Will Not Work With the Golpistas in the Judicial System
With regards to the proposed International Commission Against Impunity, the Committee of Families of the Detained and Disappeared of Honduras, COFADEH, takes the following position: 1. The antecedents for International Commissions visiting Honduras do not […]
Activists in Argentina File Writ of Habeas Corpus – for Legal Abortion
(IPS) – Heartened by the passage of a same-sex marriage law in Argentina, women’s organisations in this South American country stepped up their demands for the legalisation of abortion, on the Day for the Decriminalisation […]
Indigenous Resistance, from Colombia to Palestine
Source: The Electronic Infitada “They only see our water, our land, our trees. They don’t care about us. They want the land — without the people on it.” These words are not of a […]
Paraguayan Tribe’s SOS to Save Uncontacted Families from Extinction
Leaders of an isolated South American tribe have issued a desperate public appeal on behalf of their family members hiding in forest targeted by cattle ranchers. Some members of the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode tribe in western Paraguay […]
Giving Colombia a Free Pass: State Department Ignores Abuses of Afro-Colombian and Indigenous Rights
The State Department issued a press release last week arguing that Colombia is meeting human rights conditions for receipt of US military assistance. In certifying that the conditions for aid have been met, the State […]
Haitian Women Struggle to Keep Hope Alive
(IPS) – “I’m going to do everything possible to raise my daughter. My daughter is my future. And I can see my future in her,” says Mirlene Saint Juste, a rice merchant in the Opoto […]
At the Roots of Mapuche Resistance
A backgrounder on the situation facing Mapuche people in Chile and a look at Canada’s role Source: The Media Co-op More than 34 Mapuche political prisoners in Chile have entered into day 69 of […]
Over 1,260,000 Hondurans Demand Refounding of Nation
The incredible pro-democracy resistance movement (known as the National Front of Popular Resistance-FNRP) has collected 1,269,142 signatures (and counting) demanding a National Constituent Assembly (NCA) that will mark an important step in their struggle towards […]