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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.

This special section is funded in part by the European Commission.

11 July 2012 | Testimonies | Social activists at risk

Series of Threats

New Raid Against Community Leader in Guatemala

Last Tuesday, the house of Domingo Hernandez Ixcoy was raided. He is a Guatemalan leader of the Maya- Waqib Kej Coordination and Convergence. He says the raid is part of a series of threats against social leaders in Guatemala. Read more
10 July 2012 | Interviews | Social activists at risk

Curse

Interview with Peruvian Leader of Resistance to Mining in Cajamarca

Peruvian president Ollanta Humala declared a state of emergency in Hualgayoc province (as well as in Cajamarca and Celendin) Cajamarca department on July 4th. The government's move was taken after there were demonstrations against Conga mining project in those areas of Cajamarca department, which ended with police repression where several civilians were killed. Read more
9 July 2012 | Videos | Social activists at risk

Frightening

Activists against mining repressed: murdered civilians, arbitrary arrests and other human rights violations

Five people were murdered in Celendin province, Cajamarca department, Peru, in the past days for demonstrating against the Conga mining project. Three of them were killed on July 3rd, when the police repressed a mobilization against the project. The other two people died in the following days as a result of the injuries suffered during the confrontation. Watch video
9 July 2012 | Interviews | Social activists at risk

Hostage

Guatemala: political prisoners in Santa Cruz Barillas

The state of emergency declared in Santa Cruz Barillas, Guatemala, to repress the communities that oppose the installation of a hydroelectric dam, resulted in around ten political prisoners and several testimonies of the violent repression ordered by President Otto Perez Molina. Read more
3 July 2012 | News | Social activists at risk

No More Silence

Two fishermen murdered in Bahia de Guanabara, Rio de Janeiro: warnings by Friends of the Earth Brazil

The murder of two fishermen in Rio de Janeiro when the United Nations Convention on sustainable development had recently finished “was an errand”, said environmentalist Fernando Campos, of Friends of the Earth Brazil. Read more
29 June 2012 | News | Social activists at risk

Rio+Death

Two Fisherfolk Murdered in Rio for Environmental Struggles

It seems paradoxical, just days after the end of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development held in Rio de Janeiro, where they tried to find solutions to environmental conflicts, two fishermen from Rio were murdered. Read more
15 June 2012 | News | Peoples’ Summit in Rio+20 | Social activists at risk

Illegal Practices

UN Summit Observer from Mozambique Banned Entry in Brazil

Journalist Jeremias Vunjanhe, member of the organization Justicia Ambiental-Friends of the Earth Mozambique was denied entry in Brazil. He was there to participate as an observer at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), to be held in Rio from June 19 to 22. Read more
18 May 2012 | Interviews | Social activists at risk

Message to the General

Guatemala: Thousands Mobilized to Demand End of State of Emergency in Barillas

“The popular consultations are a sign of maturity. State impunity is terror”, read a banner of one of the demonstrators. Another one was addressed to the company that is at the center of the controversy over the construction of hydroelectric dam Hidro Santa Cruz: “How many women will be raped to produce electricity?”. Read more
11 May 2012 | Interviews | Social activists at risk

Intervention Demanded

Organizations demand intervention of IACHR over human rights violations in Guatemala

Yesterday, in a press conference, the Peasant Unity Committee, the Mayan Waqib Kej Coordination and Ceiba – Friends of the Earth Guatemala demanded the Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to “urgently” verify the denunciations of human rights violations in Santa Cruz Barillas. Read more
11 May 2012 | Interviews | Social activists at risk

“Abuse of Authority”

Guatemala: testimony of Pascual Antonio, son of one of the people arrested in Barillas

The events in Santa Cruz Barillas, Guatemala, as told by Pascual Antonio, seem taken out of a movie, where a horde of barbarians attacks a peaceful village in the Middle Ages. Read more