Latin America - Firewood for fuel, fruits to feed their families, palm fiber for baskets, medicinal plants to heal their children — women in forest-dwelling communities in Latin America use a wide array of products from their farmland and forests in their daily tasks.
But when it comes to tenure…
Most of the killings in Latin America took place in Colombia, Brazil, Mexico and Honduras, according to the report.
Of the 312 human rights defenders murdered across the world in 2017, 212 of them (67.9 percent) were from Latin America, according to a new report by Ireland-based non-profit Front…
UN indigenous rights chief urges Chile to stop using the country's anti-terrorism law to prosecute the Mapuche people
BOGOTA, Jan 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Latin America is trampling on indigenous rights and jailing ever more campaigners to stifle opposition to big business taking over…
Central America and the Caribbean are considerably vulnerable to the impact of climate change. Political analyst Geovanny Vicente Romero investigates.
Latin America and the Caribbean contribute barely 9 percent of air-pollutant emissions globally, according to data from the Economic Commission of…
The Mercosur trade bloc (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay) and the European Union are expected to conclude trade negotiations and put finishing touches on a trade agreement by the end of this year.
That pact will include landmark indigenous human rights clauses meant to protect indigenous…
With relatively advanced laws that acknowledge indigenous and rural community land rights, Brazil has the framework in place to ensure tenure security for its poor and vulnerable groups. Yet implementation of these laws has been riddled with bottlenecks and delays, and thus the current situation…
Buenos Aires, 13 dic (elmundo.cr) – La persistente desigualdad continúa actuando como un freno poderoso al desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe en general, y de sus áreas rurales en particular, señaló hoy el Representante Regional de la FAO, Julio Berdegué, en el Simposio sobre Comercio y…
¿Desarrollo e inversiones con respeto a derechos humanos y medio ambiente en América Latina? Para defensores de Honduras, Guatemala y Nicaragua, reunidos en Bruselas, un sueño lejano. ¿Por qué?
El desfase entre el respeto a los derechos humanos, los intereses económicos internacionales y es el…
New group could help put pressure on Brazilian government to protect rights of Indigenous Peoples
Tribal chief Marcos Verón grew up in flourishing rainforest in Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul region. His would be one of the last generations of Indigenous Guarani-Kaiowá peoples to practice their…
El capital financiero que circula por el planeta muestra un creciente interés en la adquisición de tierra, actividad que toma forma desde la explotación minera a la agricultura. Un proceso con fuertes efectos en los pequeños propietarios, en los modos de vida y en la concentración de los…
La acelerada urbanización y la falta de políticas estatales de fomento están generando un creciente aislamiento y deterioro de la actividad agrícola campesina en Bolivia, dijo a Sputnik el director de la Fundación Tierra, Gonzalo Colque
"El sector agrícola campesino hoy en día es un sector…
En distintos países de Sudamérica se vive momentos complejos en el acceso a la tierra y territorio. Muchas veces los Estados bloquean dicho acceso y existen diferentes actores que asechan las tierras y supervivencia de los indígenas y de los campesinos. Ante esta situación, se requiere nuevas…