Indigenous Mayor Dina Juc is a human rights defender, community organizer, nature rights advocate, and Maya woman of Q’eqchi’ and Poqomchi’ heritage raising her children in K’iche’ territory.
Nearly 20 years after Mexico declared war on organized crime, the violence has metastasized into a crisis of disappearance which implicates both the state and cartels. With official figures now surpassing 133,000 missing, the ‘madres buscadoras,’ or ‘searching mothers’ stand as the last line of accountability in a country where silence is enforced as brutally […]
Not all the peoples of the Amazon will be represented at the COP, especially the women for whom climate change is no longer a threat, but a daily reality, and from which they are the first to suffer. Indigenous, quilombola and black women from the city periphery all confront obstacles to participate, with no guarantees that they will be heard. Agência Pública’s Cecilia Amorim has spoken to women from each of the three groups
In Oaxaca, southern Mexico, communities are organizing to resist the large-scale private extraction of sand and gravel from the Río Grande, which is wiping out local species and changing the course and current of the river which Indigenous and Afro-Mexican locals have lived beside for centuries. Juana García reports from Cuicatlán, Oaxaca. This piece, translated […]
Despite the Public Prosecutor’s Office denouncing the practice, the state of São Paulo was still burying identified bodies in anonymous graves in public cemeteries until at least 2016, without notifying the affected families. This piece by Ali Rocha for Agência Pública was translated for LAB by Stanton Geyer. You can read the original, in Portuguese, […]
Amid industrial pressure and legal rollbacks, a grassroots women’s network fights for ancestral marine rights and cultural survival in Chile. ‘If they take the sea from us,’ says Mapuche-Huilliche spokeswoman Ingrid Echeverría Huequelef, ‘they kill us culturally. Without it, we are shells – empty, without a soul.’ Along Chile’s vast coastline, Indigenous women are fighting […]
Despite the fact that Jair Bolsonaro used digital militias to take down his enemies, propagated fake news on a vast scale and pursued antidemocratic acts against Brazil’s institutions, many Brazilians do not accept that their ex-president is guilty, as the supreme court decided last week. This piece has been republished from The Conversation. You can view the original here.
In the Peruvian Amazon, the roar of bulldozers is intruding on the ancestral lands of one of the world’s last isolated tribes. The Mashco Piro, long shielded by dense rainforest, now face encroachment from a logging company with a history of violent clashes. At stake is not only their survival, but the credibility of a […]
LAB Partner Agencia Publica has recently launched a special investigation conducted by 17 journalism organizations from around the world—from El Salvador to Indonesia—to shed light on one of the most powerful forces shaping the world we live in: Big Tech lobbying.
In her latest project COST, Monica Perez unravels the thread between England and Uruguay, exploring the raw wool trade and the displacement and erasure of Indigenous communities.
