In this section Real World Radio aims to expose the murders of social activists and the cases of death threats against leaders. We will report on the wave of criminalization of the social protest. This new section of Real World Radio is also a memorial page for all those who were murdered in their struggle for a socially just world.
2 March 2016 | Interviews | Criminalization of COPINH | Free Honduras | Social activists at risk | Berta lives on!
The Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) denounced that employees of Desa company, in charge of the Agua Zarca hydroelectric project in San Francisco de Ojuera municipality (Santa Barbara department) and members of the Nacional Party harassed and illegally detained the participants of a peaceful march in defense of the Gualcarque River. Read more
29 February 2016 | Interviews | Social activists at risk
Several social and popular organizations are supporting the struggle of Daniel Pascual Hernandez, a member of the Peasant Unity Committee of Guatemala (CUC, part of CLOC-VC), in light of the criminal proceedings filed against him by a former military officer. Read more
29 February 2016 | Interviews | Social activists at risk
The only "commitments" fulfilled by mining extractive industries that exploit coal in El Cerrejón, in La Guajira, Colombia, have been the use of public force to destroy houses, crops, plantations and harm communities through terror. Read more
17 February 2016 | Interviews | Victims of climate change | Social activists at risk
13 climate activists from the Plane Stupid campaign are facing prison sentencing next week on the 24th of February following their runway occupation last July at Heathrow airport in London. Due to Heathrow’s responsibility of 50% of all airport emissions in the United Kingdom and their plans to introduce a third runway, Plane Stupid campaigners chained themselves to the railing to demonstrate their opposition. The group is charged with aggravated trespassing, despite pleading not guilty on account of saving lives as a result of cutting emissions. Real World Radio has interviewed Danielle Paffard, one of the ‘Heathrow 13,’ to share her story and to gain insight into the urgency of addressing the environmental impacts of the aviation industry. Read more
26 January 2016 | Interviews | Social activists at risk
Saeed Baloch, veteran activist and campaigner for fishermen’s rights in Pakistan, was arrested on the 16th of January 2016 by Pakistani forces. Hemantha Withanage, Executive Director at the Center for Environmental Justice and a member of Friends of the Earth Sri Lanka, spoke with Real World Radio about the charges (or lack thereof) brought against Baloch and claims the incarceration is believed to be illegal and unjust. Read more
26 January 2016 | News | Social activists at risk
2015 was a year with sad numbers for Brazil: According to the Pastoral Land Commission 2015 was the year with most murders due to "rural conflicts" in the past 12 years. The preliminary number according to the organization is 49 deaths, most of them in Northern states of the country. Read more
22 January 2016 | News | Social activists at risk
The detention of popular leader and representative of indigenous communities, rural women and peasant sectors of Jujuy province, Argentina, Milagros Sala, who was also elected in 2015 as a member of Mercosur´s Parliament triggered many demands for her release as well as criticism of provincial and national authorities of Argentina. Read more
19 January 2016 | News | Social activists at risk
Social leader Nelly Amaya Pérez was shot and murdered last January 16 while she was working in her commercial establishment. Read more
8 December 2015 | Interviews | UN Climate Change COP 21 | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
"We decided to come and defend the land, the territory and the bodies of women also here in Paris", said Peruvian feminist Rosa Guillen of the World March of Women in the framework of the activities parallel to the UN COP 21 on climate change. Read more
3 December 2015 | Interviews | Social activists at risk
Brazilian right wing forces finally decided to take a shortcut in the institutional destabilization process attempting to impeach President Dilma Roussef (Workers Party), in what the leader of the Landless Rural Workers Movement of Brazil, Gilmar Mauro, defines as an attempt to cloud the political atmosphere and avoid corruption proceedings against the President of the House of Representatives himself, Eduardo Cunha (photo). Read more
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