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The Iraqi marshland region was declared UNESCO world heritage, but still the population suffers from the extractivist activities of oil companies and a militarization of their area. The indigenous population resists, and so should we with them.
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“Aro water” – as people call it- (…)

As catastrophe unfolds in Sudan, most of the world continues to turn a blind eye.

With Javier Milei’s presidency, human rights, which have been hard won over decades in Argentina, are in danger.

In Mali, Wagner militias are terrorizing the Fula, Tamasheq (Tuareg), and Moura population.
Since 2022, they have been accused of being involved in several massacres and human rights violations: they reign by spreading terror, destroying all nomad camps, poisoning wells, committing rape and looting the homes of these communities.

Latin American leaders are split on Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. But in Chile, the Palestinian diaspora - the largest one outside the Middle East -, Indigenous communities and others have come together to stand in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Demonstrators waved the Mapuche Wenufoye and Ancient Mapuche flags alongside Palestinian flags, next to a banner that read: “Our resistance has no limits.”

In the throes of the Cold War, a tiny Caribbean island dared to wage a revolutionary experiment. As the Revolution imploded, the United States invaded. Grenada’s reckoning with the events of 1983 continues to this day, for both the 50th anniversary of its independence and the 40th anniversary of the violent implosion of the People’s Revolutionary Government and the subsequent US invasion.

Music has long been a tool for social justice. Its power to inspire social change has not gone unnoticed by oppressive powers in charge. This is evident in Iran’s persecution of artists and singers following the death of Mahsa Amini in September 2022, as well as in the "music ban" in Taliban Afghanistan. Other feminist artists have risen across the world to give voice to social movements of freedom and equality, sparking trends on social media and inspiring millions.

France is not a new problem for Africa. Since the 19th century, its stood in the way of the continent’s self-determination. This article offers a thorough historical and economical review of the impacts of French rule and neocolonialism on its ex-colonies independence and development.

The Irish-based multinational Smurfit Kappa’s vast tracts of monoculture forestry in Colombia tie Ireland into global webs of extraction and exploitation.

The ultra-conservative Republican Party won a majority on Chile’s new Constitutional Council, delivering a major blow to President Gabriel Boric’s transformative platform.

Five grassroots feminist initiatives in five different countries transcend mainstream narratives about women’s rights.

With the war in Ukraine now in its second year, nearly a third of the country’s population has been displaced, including 8 million people who have sought refuge beyond its borders.
International support for the plight of these refugees has been heartening. Nearly 4.5 million Ukrainians having (…)

Addressing social and reproductive justice through a feminist lens could become a means to confront Putin’s regime and challenge Russian militarism

Anti-blackness is on the rise in Ayiti. But Haitians and Dominicans are resisting, in ways big and small.

The violence of the past is far from over. But it is disguised in many ways, made invisible and normalised. What started with the Spanish, Portuguese or the Ottoman empires continued with the British, French and Russian empires, and now the United States. Imperial political violence continues (…)

The political crisis in Peru is getting worse by the day. Since 2016, instability has taken over this South American country. On December 7th, Castillo announced he would dissolve the Congress, which in turned voted him out of office. The political crisis in Peru is severe, mass protests are taking over the country, and are been met with lethal repression.

’We face today the genesis of a global social hurricane’

Every civilization leaves ruins in its wake. These spaces and their poetics offer valuable insights into contemporary struggles and injustices, says Cecilia Enjuto Rangel

Three young women from the Munduruku Indigenous group in the Brazilian Amazon run an audiovisual collective that uses social media to raise awareness about illegal invasions of their territory.

South Asia’s response to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine tells a story. It’s a story of how the responses of three countries — Pakistan, India and Bangladesh — to the tragedy unfolding in front of the eyes of the world reflect the limits of the neoliberal-inspired constructs of international relations today.