A conference to share ideas and knowledge of youth movement activities defending human rights will be held in Berkshire, UK, from the 6th to the 10th May. . Young people have occupied squares and streets alike, using their voices to defend their rights and freedoms and have indeed assumed a […]
Tag: regions
Lights and shadows of “Fair Trade”
More than 1.2 million farmers in 66 developing countries produce goods such as sugar, coffee and cotton to promote social justice in poor regions. But not everyone benefits and there are even some negative effects. Benjamin Serra The impact of consumerism in the first world for people living […]
Playing with hunger
90% of food produced annually belongs to only 10 major multinationals. Companies which put their own profits before human lives. 1,000 million people suffer from starvation on a planet where food is abundant. . Ramón Alabau . Whilst Nestlé bottles and sells Pakistan’s underground water for high prices, many of […]
Political decentralisation v. inequality in Peru
Economic growth in the face of increased ancestral problems. This is Peru’s reality. It is a country with a high level of inequality, with a very successful GDP. . Ramón Alabau . In a recent intervention the South American president Ollanta Humala declared that “Peru is a very unequal country”. […]
Latin American women and their fight against fear
Brazil and Honduras are two countries in which women are taking the lead in stories of self-improvement and resistance against established power in the continent. Benjamin Serra Gender-based violence and femicide, the emancipation of women, female circumcision, universal suffrage, equal pay and work for men and women are […]