By Mario Osava
SALVADOR, Brazil, Jan 31, 2010 (IPS)
One of the greatest challenges facing the world today is to attend to the urgent social needs of the planet’s population, and particularly the one billion people living “on the brink of survival”, while dealing with the equally urgent demands of the environment.
This warning came from Brazilian Social [...]
By Copae
Last year, the Pastoral Commission for Peace and Ecology (COPAE), in the diocese of San Marcos, Guatemala, issued a report showing increased levels of arsenic in the water.around the Marlin mine. The difference between the data of October 2007, March 2008 and February 2009 is enormous.
The range difference between what is established and what [...]
By Francois Guindon
Rights Action
On September 7th, 2009, some 600 indigenous campesinos from San Miguel Ixtahuacán and other municipalities came to the city of San Marcos to denounce the lack of impartiality in the national judicial system and to denounce the use of the legal system as a strategy of “criminalization of the struggle for human [...]
By Claudia Rodríguez-Alas
SHARE Foundation
The SHARE Foundation congratulates the National Working Group against Mining in El Salvador for winning the 2009 Letelier-Moffitt Memorial Human Rights Award.
The award is sponsored by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in memory of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt. Letelier and Moffitt were killed 1976 by a bomb placed under [...]
By Art Kubick
Two Biographies, a Film Documentary, and a Radio Documentary
The Cross. At the heart of each settlement established by the MST (Movimento dos Sem Terra, The Landless Movement) in Brazil stands a cross, erected by the people as a sign that this for them is their piece of the Promised Land. It carries within [...]