“There is a common assessment, not only by civil society, social movements or the people, that the multilateral system has failed, and is not delivering solutions to global and common problems,” said Gonzalo Berrón, representative of the Transnational Institute (TNI). “We have to reform the UN,” he added in an interview with Real World Radio. A group of several social…
A judge in Florida, United States, found banana transnational Chiquita Brands International liable for the murder of eight people, committed between 1997 and 2004 by paramilitaries of the right-wing United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC) in the regions of Urabá Antioquia and Magdalena Medio. The US court, where Chiquita Brands is based, ordered the company to pay 38.3 million dollars…
Weaving is by definition interlacing. Weaving takes patience and concentration, but is done in constant movement. Threads, yarns, strands and fibres are combined, crossed and mixed to form something new. When we look at something woven, we do not see threads joined together, one strand on top of another. We see the whole pattern, and the network that holds it…
Jaron Browne is the director of the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ) in the United States. He attended the meeting “Weaving Emancipatory Proposals” in May 2024 in Guatemala, where he granted an interview discussing prison abolition, a struggle emerging from anti-racist organizations. Jaron, a trans person, underscored how important feminism and organized LGBT+ people are for the abolition struggle. While…
Maudy María Ucelo is a World March of Women militant living in the Xinka territory, in Santa María Xalapan, department of Jalapa, western Guatemala. “I identify as a young Indigenous woman, because this is where my struggle comes from in community feminist and social movements in my territory,” she explains. This interview was collectively conducted by Capire and Real World Radio during…
The United Nations Civil Society Conference, taking place this Wednesday and Thursday in Nairobi, Kenya, ahead of the Summit of the Future to be held in September in New York (United States), ‘seeks to reinstate a corporate-driven agenda rejected by States and social organisations in the Summit process.’ ‘It is a crude attempt by the Office of the Secretary General…
Social movements, trade unions, and progressive government representatives met in February 22-24, 2024 in Foz do Iguaçu, in the tri-border area between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay in the Southern Cone. And why did they meet? To hold the Conference on the Integration of Latin American and Caribbean Peoples, organized by multiple political subjects throughout 2023. The conference was attended by…
The upcoming United Nations Conference of the Parties on Climate Change, COP 28, has been controversial from the outset: the United Arab Emirates (UAE), one of the world's largest oil producers, is designated as host country, and Sultan Ahmed al Jaber, CEO of the state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), as president of the global event. In addition, the…
Three leaders of the Tembé Indigenous People were shot on Monday in the Brazilian town of Tomé-Açu, situated in the state of Pará, 200 kilometres from the state capital Belém do Pará. The incident occurred during preparations for a visit from the National Human Rights Council. According to information from the Brazilian Pastoral Land Commission (CPT), the shots were fired…
June 30th marks the full circle of the first year under Philippine president Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr., son of previously deposed dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. The Philippines is both a globally critical hotspot of biodiversity and natural resources, and a historic beacon of democracy and people power in Asia. But the environmental and human rights situation has deteriorated over the…
