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Honduran movements in mobilization one month after brutal assassination of Berta Caceres

By Pambana Bassett
Source: San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper

Belize City, Belize – In Honduras, one month since the assassination of Berta Caceres on the 3rd of March, tens of thousands of African and Indigenous Hondurans and those in solidarity have taken to the streets throughout the country with deep sadness and in resistance to the neo-colonial forces at fault for her murder.

U.S. Notes Abuses in Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia in Annual Report

By Richard Finney

Source: Radio Free Asia


Harsh restrictions imposed on Myanmar’s ethnic Rohingya minority continued during the final year of that country’s rule by a nominally civilian but military-backed party, while government troops acted with impunity in abusing noncombatants in conflict zones, the U.S. State Department said Wednesday in an annual report on human rights practices around the world.

2016 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship – Namati and the Global Network named as recipients

We are pleased to announce that Namati and the Global Legal Empowerment Network are among the recipients of the 2016 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.


According to the Skoll Foundation, the award is presented to leaders or organizations that are disrupting the status quo, driving large-scale “equilibrium” change, and are poised to create even greater impact on the world.


Brazilian photographer fights to protect remote tribe's rights

By Sophie Davies

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation


RIO DE JANEIRO, April 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Brazilian photographer Claudia Andujar started working with Yanomami people in the Amazon rainforest in the 1970s, most of them did not know what a camera was.


Andujar spent most of that decade and more in northern Brazil photographing the Yanomami, one of Latin America's most remote indigenous tribes.


Brazil's largest grocery chain pledges to chop deforestation, slavery from supply chain

By Chris Arsenault

Source: Reuters


RIO DE JANEIRO, April 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Brazil's largest grocery chain has pledged to stop selling beef produced on deforested land in the Amazon rainforest in what campaigners say is a victory for the environment and human rights.


Food retailer Pão de Açúcar also promised to stop buying beef produced by workers living in slave-like conditions, or cattle produced on land grabbed from local communities.


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