For popular movements in Latin America and the Caribbean, achieving high levels of political awareness and organisation is not enough whilst the ruling classes, in one way or another, maintain control of the armed forces.
Human Rights
Brixton noise Demo: incarceration is not social exclusion
The lack of support for people serving a sentence in prison can have tangible consequences on their psyche. Isolation from their community and their loved ones are especially felt during the festive period. To provide a bit of encouragement to them, an event called NYE HMP Brixton Noise Demo will […]
Silence on the indigenous genocide atrocity in Colombia
In this country, in the last two years 162 native people have been killed. They kill them in the streets, in the doorways of their houses, in meetings with friends and family. They kill them because “they get in the way”, because they do not accept “certain orders” … Everything happens in the face of indifference from “the whites” and under the passive gaze of a government that “does nothing about anything”.
“Sanctioned” for exercising her profession in a “sanctioned” country
The new war against terrorism, undertaken by the US, aims to block terrorists and people who could harm the nation, without allowing them to board flights that might encroach their airspace. But these actions are causing some “collateral effects”, as experienced by Italian journalist Geraldina Colotti. Nathan Raia […]
In the EU, human beings and their rights are in danger
From the supposedly immaculate pedestal of their “example”, European Union (EU) institutions oversee and report concerning human rights violations in countries across the world, forgetting, occasionally, to look within itself. Mario Muñoz Lozano In this sense, non-governmental organisations have drawn attention to the impact of these violations, especially […]
