Category - Civil Society

The Central Combined Cycle Plant, located in the Nahua indigenous farming community of Huexca, in central Mexico, is practically ready to operate, but local inhabitants managed to block its completion because of the pollution it could cause, and they want to use the facility to open a solar panel factory. Credit: Emilio Godoy/IPS
Active Citizens • Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador • Civil Society • Development & Aid • Editors' Choice • Energy • Environment • Featured • Headlines • human rights • Indigenous Rights • Integration and Development Brazilian-style • Latin America & the Caribbean • mexico • News • Population • Projects • Regional Categories • Renewable Energy • Solar Energy

Mexican Village Wants to Turn Thermoelectric Plant into Solar Panel Factory

3 weeks ago

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"We are fighting for the demarcation of our territory," reads a banner in a march of indigenous women who came to Rio de Janeiro from the communities of the 305 native peoples of Brazil, to demand respect for the rights recognised by the constitution, which far-right President Jair Bolsonaro began to ignore as soon as he was sworn in. Credit: Mario Osava/IPS
Brazil • Civil Society • Democracy • Development & Aid • Editors' Choice • Featured • Headlines • human rights • ILO Convention 169 • Indigenous Rights • Jair Bolsonaro • Latin America & the Caribbean • News • Population • Regional Categories

Indigenous People, the First Victims of Brazil’s New Far-Right Government

1 month ago

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The Mayan Train megaproject in southern Mexico will affect key ecosystems of the Yucatan Peninsula, which is home to 25 protected natural areas, such as this lake in the SíijilNohá community reserve, next to the Sian Ka
Active Citizens • Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador • biodiversity • Civil Society • Development & Aid • Editors' Choice • Environment • Featured • Headlines • human rights • Indigenous Rights • Integration and Development Brazilian-style • Latin America & the Caribbean • Mayan Train • mexico • News • Projects • Regional Categories • Yucatan

Local Communities Question Benefits of Mayan Train in Southern Mexico

2 months ago

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Elizabeth Ribeiro, a pensioner, plants a tree - a kind of wild papaya - for the first time in her life, on a farm about 50 km from Brasilia. Seedlings donated during the World Water Forum, held in the Brazilian capital in March, were planted in the Pipiripau River basin, which supplies two nearby cities, to "produce water" Credit: Mario Osava/IPS
Active Citizens • Brazil • Civil Society • Development & Aid • Editors' Choice • Environment • Erosion • Featured • Food & Agriculture • Headlines • Integration and Development Brazilian-style • Latin America & the Caribbean • News • Poverty & SDGs • Projects • Reforestation • Regional Categories • Water & Sanitation • World Water Forum

Water, an Environmental Product of Agriculture in Brazil

3 months ago

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Susana Gómez, who was left blind by a beating from her then husband, says in a park in the city of La Plata, Argentina that she did not find support from the authorities to free herself from domestic violence, but a social organisation saved her from joining the list of femicides in Latin America - gender-based murders of women, which numbered 2,795 in 2017 in the region. Credit: Fabiana Frayssinet/IPS
Active Citizens • Argentina • Civil Society • Crime & Justice • Democracy • domestic violence • ECLAC • Editors' Choice • Femicide • Gender • Gender Violence • Headlines • human rights • Latin America & the Caribbean • News • Regional Categories • UN Women

Legal Weapons Have Failed to Curb Femicides in Latin America

3 months ago

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Solar panels can be seen on three buildings in the Morro de Santa Marta favela in Rio de Janeiro. In the middle is the CEPAC daycare center, with a green terrace and two sets of photovoltaic panels, which reduced its expenses by 80 percent thanks to solar energy. Credit: Mario Osava/IPS
Active Citizens • Brazil • Civil Society • Development & Aid • Editors' Choice • Energy • Environment • favelas • Headlines • Integration and Development Brazilian-style • Latin America & the Caribbean • News • Population • Poverty & SDGs • Projects • Regional Categories • Solar Energy

Solar Energy Drives Social Development in Brazil’s Favelas

3 months ago

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Mariano Barraza (L), a member of the Wichi indigenous people, and Enzo Romero, a technician with the Fundapaz organisation, stand next to the rainwater storage tank built in the indigenous community of Lote 6 to supply the local families during the six-month dry season in this part of the province of Salta, in northern Argentina
Active Citizens • Argentina • Chaco • Civil Society • Development & Aid • Editors' Choice • Environment • Featured • Headlines • human rights • Indigenous Rights • Integration and Development Brazilian-style • Latin America & the Caribbean • News • Population • Poverty & SDGs • Projects • rainwater harvesting • Regional Categories • Special Report • Water & Sanitation

Rainwater Harvesting Eases Daily Struggle in Argentina’s Chaco Region

4 months ago

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