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.
22 June 2015 | Interviews | Criminalization of COPINH | Social activists at risk | Berta lives on! | Mano a Mano
The 2015 Goldman Prize awarded to Honduran activist Berta Cáceres shed light on the social struggle of the country, six years after the Coup D´Etat, and was granted in a moment of mobilizations by the people against corruption, which is common in other countries of the region, such as Guatemala. Read more
18 June 2015 | Interviews | Mobilization around the EU – CELAC Summit | Social activists at risk | Basta de Impunidad Corporativa - Ginebra 2015
A Friends of the Earth International´s delegation is present in Geneva, Switzerland, where the UN´s Human Rights Council is holding its sessions, aiming to urge several governments to participate in the intergovernmental panel of the Council to start defining the terms of a binding treaty on human rights and transnational corporations. Read more
8 June 2015 | Special reports | Social activists at risk
“We are calling for the creation of a Network of Members of Parliament for Peace in Colombia and invite all Representatives committed to Peace in our continent and the world to join this network”, states the Montevideo declaration of the Parliamentary Forum for Peace in Colombia, that was held last June 5 in Jose Artigas Building, an annex of the Uruguayan Legislative Building, in the context of the 2nd Forum for Peace in Colombia that took place in the Uruguayan capital city. Read more
4 June 2015 | Interviews | Social activists at risk
Interview with Leonel Atz of CEIBA - Friends of the Earth Guatemala about the political and social situation in the country amid massive mobilizations in Guatemala city and the territories under resistance. Read more
12 May 2015 | Testimonies | Social activists at risk | Berta lives on!
Persecuted, threatened, falsely accused and under permanent risk. This is how Berta Caceres, member of the Lenca indigenous people and leader of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) lives in Honduras. Read more
15 April 2015 | Interviews | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
Representatives of 27 indigenous qom, pilagá, wichí and nivaclé communities who live in Formosa Province, Argentina, have been camping since February 14 in Buenos Aires downtown to demand once again the respect of their rights and lands. Read more
1 April 2015 | Interviews | Social activists at risk
Real World Radio interviewed one of the representatives of the human rights organizations that denounced before the IACHR the impacts on indigenous communities of an energy policy passed by Enrique Peña Nieto´s administration. Read more
4 March 2015 | Interviews | Social activists at risk
An international verification mission organized by the Mexican Network of People Affected by Mining (REMA) around the conflict over the installation of a gold mine in Zacualpan community, Colima state, Mexico, was blocked by members of the State police and over thirty civilians on March 1st. According to a statement issued by the Mission, State authorities had been notified about the fact that the mission was going to take place. The blocking is considered an act of complicity with the mining project, which according to the statement is rejected by most of the inhabitants of Zacualpan. Read more
4 March 2015 | Interviews | Social activists at risk
Interview with the father of one of the victims murdered by the Colombian State, in this case Johnny Silva, killed by the Anti-Riot Police in 2005 during a peaceful mobilization against the Free Trade Agreement. Read more
20 February 2015 | Interviews | Social activists at risk
Peruvian Congress members, the Pact of Unity, which gathers indigenous and peasant organizations of the country and several social organizations submitted bills to repeal a law and a decree that according to them violate the rights of indigenous organizations which are recognized by international regulations. Read more
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