Arbitrary killings by police, violence against indigenous people, minorities, activists or the LGBT community and widespread acts of corruption are...
March 31, 2021
More than 400 human rights defenders have been killed in Colombia since 2016, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday, February...
February 11, 2021
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Sara Fernanda Gironimi, who goes by the name of Sara Winter, has been labeled as an...
June 17, 2020
A Global Witness report shows 185 environmentalists were killed in 2015, 50 of them in Brazil., making it the most...
June 21, 2016
In Rio de Janeiro 18 of 23 activists accused of violent acts during protests remain fugitives while lawyers of activists...
July 20, 2014
Debates over punishments in Brazil for animal mistreatment resurface after animal rights activists raided a drug testing laboratory in São...
October 27, 2013
Activists, indigenous leaders, fishermen and local residents, gathered to stage a peaceful protest at the site of the Belo Monte...
November 1, 2011
A leading figure in Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST), was assassinated last Thursday evening in the Northern state of Pará.
August 30, 2011