• 18 March 2013 | Community Radios | Social activists at risk

  

  A Hundred Thousand Voices For Water

  Colombia: Mobilizations in Defense of Water as a Common Good

  A series of actions in defense of water as a common good for human kind, are being held in different Colombian cities this week, including a sit-in outside the Colombian Ministry of Environment. The actions are organized to mark a new anniversary of the UN declaration of water as a human right on Friday 22nd. Read more

• 12 March 2013 | Interviews | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk

  

  Unrelenting Violence

  Attempt to Murder two Peasants in Paraguay

  On Sunday night Paraguayan peasants Cipriano Flores and Asuncion Acuña were shot by gun men. Both of them live in the landless settlement India Juliana, in Ararupi, Caazapa department. Read more

• 5 March 2013 | Videos | Social activists at risk

  

  Unforgettable

  Video-Statement of Trade Union After Murder of Worker in Chile

  On February 21, trade union leader Juan Pablo Jimenez Garrido was shot in the head and killed in Santiago, Chile. He was the chair of the N°1 union and of the Federation of Workers of Ingenieria Electrica Azeta, a company that provides services to Chilectra, Chile’s main electricity corporation. Watch video

• 4 March 2013 | Interviews | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk

  

  More Than Just A Campaign

  Guatemala: Interview with Daniel Pascual of the Committee of Peasant Unity (Cloc-Via Campesina)

  A long media campaign to discredit the La Via Campesina in Guatemala by associating it with “destabilizing groups” had been identified and reported by its Committee of Peasant Unity (CUC-CLOC-Via Campesina). The campaign ended with the aggression of its main leader in San Juan Sacatepequez municipality, Guatemala. Read more

• 4 March 2013 | Videos | Social activists at risk

  

  Contrasting positions

  Salvadorian Environmental Activist Publicly Challenges Mining Advocates

  Ricardo Navarro, chair of CESTA-Friends of the Earth El Salvador said at a press conference on Monday: “We think the position of the Salvadorian Association of the Industry Sector (ASI) is dishonest because they want to get profits, money, they seek to benefit corporations that will extract gold”. Watch video

• 27 February 2013 | Photo Galleries | Social activists at risk

  

  Perpetual Demand for Truth and Justice

  Uruguay: Demonstration Against the Impunity of State Terrorism

  On Monday, February 25, thousands of people gathered at Plaza Libertad in Montevideo, Uruguay, to protest against the recent ruling of the Supreme Court of Justice that legitimates the impunity of human rights abuses committed during the country’s latest dictatorship (1973-1985). See gallery

• 27 February 2013 | Interviews | Social activists at risk

  

  La Rioja, Famatina and Laguna Brava

  Stories of Resistance to Mining in Argentina

  A recent report of the Citizens Assemblies of La Rioja shows that 17 out of 18 departments in the province are affected by mining. 25% of the surface of La Rioja has been granted to mining activities. Only last year 72 mining licenses were granted in 14 departments. Read more

• 25 February 2013 | Interviews | Social activists at risk

  

  The Limits to Mining

  Interview with Pablo Sanchez (Grufides): Ollanta Humala’s Mining Push and the Lead-up to a Popular Consultation on Conga Project

  The indiscriminate push for the extraction of raw materials, especially minerals, and its effects on communities is a central issue of the social conflicts in Peru under Ollanta Humala’s administration, Pablo Sanchez, leader an environmental organization of Cajamarca Grufides, told Real World Radio. Read more

• 25 February 2013 | Interviews | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk

  

  Extermination Plan

  Another Peasant Murdered in Paraguay: Interview with Magui Balbuena

  Another peasant leader was killed on Wednesday 20 February, exactly two months before the country’s elections after a coup d’état that ousted President Fernando Lugo. Read more

• 19 February 2013 | Chronicles | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk

  

  Who are the invaders?

  Honduras: processes to recover lands to the north and west of the country by four thousand peasant families

  On February 17 and 18, three Honduran peasant organizations decided to occupy lands after a long and unsuccessful process to recover them, which was met with violent evictions and imprisonments. Read more

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