How to Reduce Anti-Activist Crime in Latin America
Last month, Global Witness released a report titled “Roots of Resistance: Documenting the Global Struggles of Defenders Protecting Land and ...
Tag: Colombia
Historic Amazon Raid Nets 94 Arrests, But Defenders Still Under Attack
A growing wave of violence and environmental crime is endangering Indigenous defenders and biodiversity in the Amazon Basin, as recent ...
Some Successes, but COP16 Ends in Disappointment, With Crucial Finance Agreements Delayed
On November 2, 196 countries at the COP16 UN biodiversity conference in Colombia agreed to establish a new global fund ...
196 Environmental Defenders Were Killed Globally in 2023
According to a Global Witness report published this month, 196 environmental defenders were murdered in 2023 around the world while ...
Five Sustainable Startups From Bogotà
Bogotà is the third most important startup hub in Latin America. The Colombian capital startup ecosystem is growing fast and ...
Women Worldwide Assert Their Power through Necessity
I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves. ― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of ...
How Colombia’s President is Ignoring the Climate Crisis
A Reflection of Colombia President’s address at the UN Climate Action Summit Climate Crisis in South America: Real Action or ...
Post-Conflict: The Mass, Systematic Killings of Social Leaders in Colombia
There has been an increasing awareness of the murders of social leaders in Colombia. Indepaz registered 872 murders from January ...
Colombia’s Peace Process: the Role of Activists, the Government, and the International Community
On Friday July 26th, people in more than 80 Colombian cities and in 58 other cities worldwide participated in the ...
Colombia: A Divided Country in Search of Peace
The construction of peace in Colombia has not been easy. Although the Peace Accord was signed in 2016 by the ...
Bogotá’s Fight for Gender Equality and Safe Public Transport
What should a city do if half of its population cannot access a public service? It sounds like a somewhat ...
Escape from the Consumer Society – How Michael Blue Did It
Our industrial society, ever since it began, has spawned fierce critics. Two of the best known lived in America: the ...
