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
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
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
“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 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
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
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
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
“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
“When we expose stories such as Ota Benga’s, we work to ensure that such things do not happen again.”Read the full article
“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
The Ayoreo people from Paraguay are the Guardians of the Gran Chaco, the second largest forest in South America. They live in a country where the main national income accounts for the deforestation of the land to export wood and charcoal, to breed 14 million cows per year and to seed soy [...]Read the full article
