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About 300 rebels from Colombia's FARC have not demobilized, general says
By: Luis Jaime Acosta
Date: 5 February 2017
Source: Reuters
Around 300 fighters from Colombia's Marxist FARC rebels will not demobilize under a peace deal, a military commander said, giving the first official figure of guerrillas who may join with crime gangs seeking control of lucrative rebel drug territory.
INTERVIEW-Give women land to build lasting peace in Guatemala - Nobel laureate
By: Anastasia Moloney
Date: 3 February 2017
Source: Reuters
Across Latin America just one percent of farms and estates control more than half of the region's productive land.
Giving women access to land in Guatemala is key to forging lasting peace and tackling inequality, Nobel peace laureate Rigoberta Menchu said on Friday, in a country where land distribution is one of the most unequal in the world.
Bolivia’s Disappearing Lake
By: Linda Farthing
Date: 1 February 2017
Source: Earth Island Journal
As Lake Poopó vanishes, depleted by water diversions and warming temperatures, it leaves behind an uncertain future for Indigenous Urus
Study shows that involving communities in mangrove management makes them more sustainable
Date: 3 February 2017
Source: CIFOR
Mangrove forests that incorporate local communities into their management fare better, a new study finds. Recognizing the importance of gender and community rights in mangrove use and planning prevents the deterioration of these fragile ecosystems.
Marching towards peace, FARC-EP begins turning in arms – UN Mission in Colombia
Date: 2 February 2017
Source: UN News Centre
More than 200 men and women of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (FARC-EP) marched today to demobilization camps, two months after a peace deal that ended the Western Hemisphere’s longest running conflict, United Nations monitors coordinating the process reported.
Women lead battle to save Senegal’s shrinking farmland
By: Nellie Peyton
Date: 1 February 2017
Source: Manitoba Co-Operator
Female-led work is vital to rural communities in Senegal — now women are organizing to lead the fight against multinational agribusiness.
"Buen Vivir" for Whom?
By: Moira Birss
Date: 26 January 2017
Source: Nacla
From attempts to close Ecuador’s leading environmental rights NGO to megaprojects on indigenous lands, Rafael Correa’s government continues to criminalize and threaten environmental activists and indigenous people.
The Shuar people fighting on two fronts in the Amazon
By: Inti Cartuche Vacacela
Date: 1 February 2017
Source: Open Democracy
Shuar means the people. Today, this indigenous people living in present-day Ecuador and Peru, are continuing their fight against the colonial state and the extractivist capitalism.
Colombia FARC rebels gather to disarm, ELN eye peace
Date: 31 January 2017
Source: World Bulletin
The country's last active group, the ELN, said meanwhile the government had begun releasing certain detainees to clear the way for peace talks with that force, too.
Colombia said FARC rebels will finish mustering in demobilization zones Tuesday to begin a historic disarmament process ending a half-century conflict.
