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Illegal gold mining drives human rights abuses in Latin America, claims study

By Annika McGinnis 20 de April de 201614 de September de 2020

Illicit gold trade overtakes cocaine, fuelling abuses including sexual exploitation and child labour, says Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime.

Wall Street International: Who cares about those that defend us?

By Annika McGinnis 6 de April de 201614 de September de 2020

The difficult situation of environmental and social activists in Latin America and Colombia

Participatory research project: indigenous languages and digital media

By Annika McGinnis 31 de March de 201614 de September de 2020

Peoples, whose cultures and languages were marginalized and displaced by the Nation-State, have appropriated – slowly, but surely – digital media to reassert their cultural and linguistic presence in cyberspace.

ree in deforested area in middle of the Amazon jungle

Guardian: Amazon deforestation picking up pace, satellite data reveals

By Mark Smith 24 de October de 201414 de September de 2020

The deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon has accelerated rapidly in the past two months, underscoring the shortcomings of the government’s environmental policies.

The Guardian: Illegal loggers remain hidden in Peru’s forest

By Mark Smith 14 de October de 201414 de September de 2020

State exercises little control over remote Amazon region blighted by poverty and illiteracy, and organised crime fills the vacuum.

Peru’s enviornmental agency will receive a reduced budget without proper legal basis

By Mark Smith 14 de October de 201414 de September de 2020

Due to access to public information, it is known that Peru’s Evaluation and Environmental Control Agency (OEFA) requested a budget of 166 260 160 nuevos soles but, according to the draft budget approved by the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), they were only allocated 130 260 160 nuevos soles.

Large dams: False allies in tackling the climate change

By Mark Smith 27 de September de 201414 de September de 2020

For years, large dams have been the first choice to meet energy needs in most of Latin America. However, according to various studies, large dams do not mean clean energy and are not enviornmentally friendly.

El Comercio: Oil extraction in the Yasuni National Park, in Ecuador

By Mark Smith 30 de August de 201414 de September de 2020

Ishpingo, Tambococha and Tiputini are three key fields in Ecuador’s oil reserves. They are in the Yasuni National Park. Petroamazonas is preparing to make the first drilling in areas adjacent to their fields.

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Participatory research project: indigenous languages and digital media

31 de March de 2016

Large dams: False allies in tackling the climate change

27 de September de 2014

El Comercio: Oil extraction in the Yasuni National Park, in Ecuador

30 de August de 2014

Illegal gold mining drives human rights abuses in Latin America, claims study

20 de April de 2016

Wall Street International: Who cares about those that defend us?

6 de April de 2016

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