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.
16 May 2018 | Interviews | Social activists at risk
Every May 15, the Palestinian people mark the Nakba Day, the “catastrophe”, the moment when they were displaced from their lands by the Israeli occupation and the foundation of said state. It was in 1948 and this Tuesday, the day following the murder of 60 Palestinians by Israeli forces in the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, marks its 70th anniversary. Read more
15 May 2018 | News | Free Honduras | Social activists at risk
UN Special Rapporteur Michael Forst visited Honduras this week and met with different social and governmental actors about the Human Rights violations taking place in the context of militarization experienced in the Central American country. Read more
3 May 2018 | Interviews | Free Honduras | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay | Social activists at risk
Friends of the Earth International “has a clear vision of environmental and social justice”. “We can´t achieve justice in any way if we don´t talk and discuss about how women, gay people, black people and indigenous people are oppressed”, said Brazilian environmental activist Marília Gonçalves in an interview with Real World Radio. Read more
20 April 2018 | Interviews | Social activists at risk
Aiming to continue developing a conceptual framework on patriarchy and the importance of dismantling it to achieve system change and environmental justice, environmental federation Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) will hold an important meeting from April 30 to May 4 in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas State. Read more
17 April 2018 | News | Monitoring transnationals | Social activists at risk | Lula libre
La Via Campesina is celebrating this Tuesday the International Day of Peasant Struggle with a strong rejection against Free Trade Agreements and demanding peasant rights around the world be guaranteed Read more
12 April 2018 | Videos | Monitoring transnationals | Social activists at risk | Lula libre
“Lula was incarcerated because the dominant classes cannot forgive a leader committed with a popular project”, said on Wednesday the coordinator of REDES – Friends of the Earth Uruguay, Karin Nansen, during a protest outside the Brazilian Embassy in Montevideo, capital of Uruguay. Watch video
8 March 2018 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Social activists at risk
The Ecuadorian Chair of the United Nations Human Rights Council´s working group in charge of negotiating a binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights submitted on Thursday in Geneva, Switzerland, the report of the third session of the group held last October. The countries ratified the importance of the process and will hold its fourth session in October 2018, with the negotiation of a “draft zero”. Read more
2 March 2018 | News | Criminalization of COPINH | Free Honduras | Social activists at risk | Berta lives on!
By the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) Read more
14 February 2018 | News | Monitoring transnationals | Social activists at risk
Wahana Lingkungan Hidup Indonesia (WALHI) - Friends of the Earth Indonesia Jakarta – For more than three decades, Industrial Forest Plantations, more properly called industrial tree plantations, have been running their business practice in Indonesia. Read more
1 February 2018 | Interviews | Social activists at risk | Mobilizations in support to Lula in Porto Alegre
“We are creating candidacy defense committees for (former) president Lula throughout Brazil. We already have over 4000 committees”, said the head of the Central Workers Union of Brazil (CUT), Regina Cruz, in an interview with Real World Radio. The former president, member of the Workers Party (PT) and former steelworker leader in the 70s, “is the candidate of the social movements of the country” for October national elections, stated Cruz. Read more
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