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4 Apr 2017 8 minute read

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Amnesty: a win for Colombia's peace process?

Kimberley Brown meets Colombian human rights worker Liliany Obando, recently granted amnesty...

1 Apr 2017 3 minute read

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When sanctuary is resistance

In the United States in the 1980s, the simple act of providing refuge became a form of civil disobedience, writes Mark...

15 Mar 2017 4 minute read

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The fight for Latin America’s ‘invisible’ indigenous women

We need to do more to empower the indigenous women of Latin America, if we’re serious about leaving no one behind, ...

8 Mar 2017 7 minute read

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Erasing women in Mexico

Women are jailed for miscarriages, yet male spouses who've murdered walk free. Tamara Pearson reports.

2 Mar 2017 1 minute read

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Water fights in a time of scarcity: the Bolivian Carnaval

Playing with water is controversial in a place with a history of water struggles like Cochabamba, writes Amy Booth...

Alicia Cawiya

1 Mar 2017 5 minute read

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One woman against Big Oil and patriarchy

Alicia Cawiya, an indigenous activist prepared to defy the powerful to save Ecuador’s Yasuní, talks to...

1 Mar 2017 5 minute read

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Justice turns its back on us

Impunity rules in today's Honduras. Trans Activist Jlo Córdoba survives assassination attempts to speak to...

1 Mar 2017 2 minute read

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Worldbeaters: Michel Temer

Brazil’s oldest president – and architect of his predecessor’s downfall – is put under the spotlight.

20 Feb 2017 2 minute read

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Ecuador votes to bar politicians from having assets in tax havens

The ‘yes’ vote wins in the first, historic referendum of its kind, writes Alessio Perrone.

Exclusive: Ecuador to hold historic referendum on tax havens

16 Feb 2017 3 minute read

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Exclusive: Ecuador to hold historic referendum on tax havens

Will Ecuadoreans deliver an anti-corruption ultimatum to their politicians and civil servants this Sunday? The country's...

16 Feb 2017 3 minute read

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'On the other side': Ecuador's foreign minister blasts Britain on tax justice

The country often blocks tax havens and other predatory fiscal policies, argues Ecuador's Foreign Minister Guillaume...

30 Jan 2017 5 minute read

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What is behind Brazil’s prison crisis?

Overcrowding and violence between warring drug gangs have led to the deaths of over 130 prisoners this year, reports ...

19 Jan 2017 4 minute read

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Mexico’s Gasolinazo Ignites Public Rage

Mexicans protest gas deregulation, an economic measure many think will exacerbate an already precarious situation. ...

1 Jan 2017 3 minute read

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Letter from Cochabamba

Working children have more pressing concerns than the law, discovers Amy Booth.

1 Jan 2017 3 minute read

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Country profile: Nicaragua

Mira Galanova uncovers a country at a crossroads.

17 Dec 2016 5 minute read

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Tax avoidance: the damage done

Tax avoidance is anything but a victimless crime, with some of its most pernicious effects in the Global South, ...

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