• 11 April 2018 | Interviews | Mano a Mano

  

  “Lula represents the possibility to live in a more just country”

  Lula Da Silva´s detention “is part of the political intent by corrupt and manipulative sectors of the judicial branch and the media to leave the Workers Party´s leader outside of the elections and to favor the victory of those who could not win the elections with the vote of the people”, said Pablo Gentili, Executive Secretary at the Latin American Social Sciences Council (CLACSO) in an interview with Real World Radio about the situation in Brazil. Read more

• 4 April 2018 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Mano a Mano

  

  Agroecology under discussion in Italy: the defense of an indigenous-peasant ancient practice against corporate opportunistic attacks

  Martín Drago, Food Sovereignty program coordinator at Friends of the Earth International (FoEI), said that the symposium on agroecology launched this Tuesday in Rome, Italy, by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), will be a space of “hard discussion in terms of the meaning of agroecology”. Read more

• 9 November 2017 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Social activists at risk | Mano a Mano

  

  Colombia: interview with Jakeline Romero Epiayu of Fuerza de Mujeres Wayuu, awarded with the National Human Rights Defense Award.

  “As women, we are the ones who maintain hope. And I think that while we do this, we need to encourage many other women and tell them to dare to go out, to raise their voices, to avoid being afraid to speak. (…) Women have been told to be afraid within our social and cultural circles. (…) We are covered by a blanket of fear, but we need to move forward with a blanket of hope”, said Jakeline Romero Epiayu. Read more

• 2 June 2017 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Activities in Geneva for binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights | Social activists at risk | Mano a Mano

  

  NO to the voluntary principles on transnational corporations and human rights: Friends of the Earth puts pressure ahead of UN session

  Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) already has a delegation in Geneva, Switzerland, to show the new regular session of the UN Human Rights Council –to take place from June 6th – 23rd, the widespread support to the negotiations for a binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights, under negotiation in this multilateral framework. Read more

• 12 July 2016 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Mano a Mano

  

  Health Comes First

  Uruguay defeats Philip Morris lawsuit: organizations call for urgent review of treaties that threaten the country

  “This victory of Uruguay should translate into an urgent call to analyze, review, renegotiate or suspend all bilateral trade and investment protection treaties signed by the country, before we are exposed once again to new lawsuits that could have less positive outcomes that the recent one with Philip Morris”. Read more

• 17 May 2016 | Interviews | Coup d´Etat in Brazil | Mano a Mano

  

  "This coup affects social movements of all Latin America and the Caribbean"

  Francisca Rodríguez (ANAMURI-CLOC Vía Campesina Chile) analyzes effects of the coup in Brazil

  As a "bitter awakening" with so much anguish and the belief that the transnational capital, the corporate media and the political right-wing have obtained a significant victory; this is how Chilean peasant leader Francisca "Pancha" Rodríguez described the day after the removal of Dilma Roussef as President of Brazil in the framework of an impeachment. Read more

• 22 April 2016 | Videos | Criminalization of COPINH | Free Honduras | Land grabbing | International Peoples´ Meeting “Berta Cáceres Lives on” | Social activists at risk | Berta lives on! | Mano a Mano

  

  Berta´s Call: Interview with Miriam Miranda, of OFRANEH, Honduras

  “We don´t want to be martyrs, we don´t want any more martyrs in this country, but we also have the historical responsibility to show that we have the right to build a better world. And we can´t run away from that responsibility”, said Garifuna leader Miriam Miranda, Coordinator of the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH) in an interview with Real World Radio. Watch video

• 31 March 2016 | Chronicles | Criminalization of COPINH | Social activists at risk | International Mission “Justice for Berta Cáceres” | Mano a Mano

  

  IACHR, social organizations, relatives and legal experts demand return of Gustavo Castro, witness of the assassination of Berta Cáceres

  The permanence of environmental activist Gustavo Castro in Honduras due to the migration alert placed on him by the Honduran government is giving in to the expressions of solidarity and appeals from different spheres towards Juan Orlando Hernández´ administration. Read more

• 15 December 2015 | Interviews | Victims of climate change | UN Climate Change COP 21 | Mano a Mano

  

  Why the COP21 Should Not be Celebrated

  The Paris climate summit (COP21) set out to achieve two goals this year - to increase the ambition of the Pre-2020 (also part of the Kyoto Protocol); and to create climate action applicable to all countries between 2020 and 2030. The agreements that have been reached are for countries to limit their emissions to 2 °C and to help finance poor nations in cutting emissions and coping with the effects of extreme weather. Real World Radio has interviewed Asad Rehman from Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland to discuss his take on the COP21 and what it means for future climate action. Read more

• 24 November 2015 | Interviews | Mano a Mano

  

  “Moral vertigo”

  Interview with Independent Expert of the United Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Alfred De Zayas

  “The investor-state dispute settlement puts companies’ rights ahead of human rights. Its effects are devastating for developing nations – we must abolish it”, wrote Alfred de Zayas, United Nations' Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, in an article published by The Guardian on November 16th. Read more

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