Equal Times

12 September 2018

Venezuela: where a crisis and a “gold rush” are creating an environmental disaster

In the midst of an unprecedented economic crisis, Venezuela is gripped by gold fever. Venezuelans are flocking by the hundreds to the Orinoco Mining Arc and the environment is paying the price in the form of deforestation and mercury-polluted [...]Read the full article

Beyond the green shoots of global grassroots activism

10 August 2018

Politics & economy

Beyond the green shoots of global grassroots activism

What lessons can these new grassroots movements teach us? Can local or individual struggles have global resonance? One thing they do demonstrate is how uniting and fighting together can have a real impact.Read the full article

8 August 2018

Environment

Latin America’s environmental challenge

Why does a country that approves and leads climate action promote, in parallel, development based on extractivism - an option that undermines the rights of the people?Read the full article

3 August 2018

Labour

The many faces of labour exploitation

As global inequality widens, so do the various manifestations of extreme exploitation, as this fourth edition of Equal Times’ summer themed-article series illustrates.Read the full article

Will there be a UN treaty to punish the abuses committed by multinationals?

26 July 2018

Human rights

Will there be a UN treaty to punish the abuses committed by multinationals?

Chloé Maurel: “There is a deeply unjust imbalance: a victim of a multinational cannot apply to any court for justice, while a multinational can turn against states via private arbitration tribunals.”Read the full article

In Chile, the Mapuche are battling for their land

29 June 2018

Human rights

In Chile, the Mapuche are battling for their land

In the Biobío and La Araucanía regions of Chile the Mapuche communities claim their ownership of ancestral lands, which puts them in direct confrontation with the agricultural and forestry companies that profit from their exploitation of the lands. The disputes have cost [...]Read the full article

In DR Congo, the world's second largest forest is being ravaged as landless communities struggle for their rights

15 May 2018

Environment

In DR Congo, the world’s second largest forest is being ravaged as landless communities struggle for their rights

The Democratic Republic of Congo has the world’s second largest rainforest, about 135 million hectares, which is a powerful bulwark against climate change.Read the full article

One hundred years of servitude in Brazil

27 March 2018

Labour

One hundred years of servitude in Brazil

In the state of Amazonas, extractivists work to pay off debts to their ‘bosses’. For three generations the cycle has bound families to a life of cutting piassava, the palm fibers used to make brooms.Read the full article

Reconciliation, a difficult journey for the Aboriginal peoples in Canada

12 February 2018

Human rights

Reconciliation, a difficult journey for the Aboriginal peoples in Canada

One hundred and fifty years since the start of Canada’s colonisation and Indigenous peoples are still suffering discrimination, exclusion and trauma.Read the full article

Strengthening community forest rights – a key front in the battle against climate change

13 December 2017

Development

Strengthening community forest rights – a key front in the battle against climate change

“We are the ones standing in the path of the rampant deforestation brought on by the global hunger for soy, beef, palm oil, paper and timber. And we are the ones being murdered for protecting our forests.”Read the full article

New memorial sets the record straight on the tragic story of Ota Benga

12 December 2017

Culture

New memorial sets the record straight on the tragic story of Ota Benga

“When we expose stories such as Ota Benga’s, we work to ensure that such things do not happen again.”Read the full article

The EU's last indigenous peoples fight for self-determination and land rights

15 November 2017

Culture

The EU’s last indigenous peoples fight for self-determination and land rights

“This derogatory, paternalistic attitude towards indigenous peoples is common throughout the world and it still seems to be fully acceptable in Norway and Finland.”Read the full article

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