Phil Clarke-Hill explains why locals have spent the last 20 years fighting the construction of the world’s third largest hydroelectric project.
Filed in: Brazil Dams Environment Indigenous Peoples
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Phil Clarke-Hill explains why locals have spent the last 20 years fighting the construction of the world’s third largest hydroelectric project.
Filed in: Brazil Dams Environment Indigenous Peoples
A journalist, an expedition and the Arrow People add up to a life-changing read for David Hill.
Filed in: Brazil Indigenous Peoples
Vanessa Baird ponders the treatment of a whistleblower on the eve of the Rio+20 Earth Summit.
The UN Earth summit will take place June 20-22. Here’s introducing some of the worst environmental truth spinners trying to hijack the agenda.
Filed in: Agriculture Brazil Climate Change Finance Oil Sustainability
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa team up to resist Western financial domination, reports Lasanda Kurukulasuriya.
Filed in: Brazil China Finance India Iran Russia South Africa United States World Bank
Gender activist Gary Barker sees young men who respect woman and are connected fathers.
Latin American countries are giving the World Bank and the IMF the boot.
Filed in: Argentina Brazil Economics Ecuador IMF Latin America Paraguay Venezuela World Bank
It’s 2010. Brazilian activists Marcelo Calazans and Renata Valentim imagine what the future might look like if the carbon market continues to grow.
Filed in: Activism Brazil Climate Change Corporations Forests Indigenous Peoples Minorities
A poet’s view of from Rio’s favelas by Gabriela Tôrres Barbosa.
Anti-Muslim fervour is rife – yet is being ignored by the authorities, says Lewis Garland.
Mari Marcel Thekaekara congratulates the country’s Dalit community on finally winning legal protection against discrimination.
‘The Wicked Witch is dead’ but although he’s celebrating, Alan Hughes urges us to fight on against everything she stood for.
Argument: Is it time to ditch the pursuit of economic growth?
As Mother’s Day approaches in India, Mari Marcel Thekaekara reflects on how motherhood has changed along with the online communication boom.