Palestinians protest forestation plan amid violent Israeli repression and other stories
Today we look at protests by Bedouin Palestinians against Israeli encroachment in the Negev, a hunger strike at the Rikers Island jail complex in protest of inhuman conditions, and more
Activists slam state “necropolitics” as Ecuador prison riot kills 68 and other stories
Today we look at the wave of prison massacres in Ecuador, a report on the cover-up of a major 2019 U.S. airstrike on Syria, and more
Canadian court upholds compensation order for Indigenous children and other stories
Today we look at a court ruling in Canada to provide compensation for Indigenous children affected by the foster system, the dropping of all charges against 3 leaders of Abahlali baseMjondolo in South Africa, and more
Thousands protest wage cuts and neoliberal reforms in Uruguay and other stories
Today we look at the general strike against wage cuts in Uruguay, the ITJP report on the custodial torture of Tamil people in Sri Lanka, and more
“No prison in Colombia can deal with coronavirus, if they leave us here we are facing the death penalty”
Julián Gil, social leader of Congreso de los Pueblos, talks from prison about the danger faced by thousands of inmates amid the coronavirus pandemic
Social movements condemn massacre of 23 inmates in Colombian prison
Guards at the La Modelo prison in Bogotá attacked inmates while they were mobilizing to demand that the government declare a carceral emergency over lack of hygienic conditions in light of the COVID-19 outbreak
Paraguay’s high undertrial population a failure of courts, government: report
The country tops Latin America and is fourth in the world in terms of the percentage of undertrials
- Google employees lead sit-ins protesting company’s complicity in genocide
- Israeli tourists attack vigil in Cusco in support of Palestine
- During Red April, Brazil’s MST restates the importance of agrarian reform
- German authorities’ crackdown on Palestine Conference sparks widespread outrage
- As elections approach, India’s farmers count government’s broken promises
