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  1. Colombia: Hague Group meeting in Bogotá commits to sanction Israel

    Imperialism & war International solidarity Latin America & the Caribbean Middle East Ben ... Radford The Hague Group 2023-25 Israeli genocide on Gaza Ministers and officials from 32 countries met in ... Colombia’s capital, Bogotá, on July 15–16 to develop strategies to stop Israel’s ongoing genocide of the ...

  2. ‘Trump is insatiable’: International solidarity needed to defend Panama against US imperialism

    Imperialism & war International solidarity Latin America & the Caribbean North America ... international solidarity with Panamanian workers.  Read part one here. * * * Could you expand on the role US ... imperialism is playing in Panama? Donald Trump, on the very day he took office, announced he would take back ...

  3. Peru: Rally stands with Palestine, resists Zionist neocolonialism

    Imperialism & war International solidarity Latin America & the Caribbean Ben Radford ... Palestine anti-Zionism 2023-25 Israeli genocide on Gaza Pisac Community members and tourists in Pisac, ... Palestinians on June 15 — the same day that the Israeli military killed at least 41 Palestinians in Gaza. The ...

  4. Greedflation: Latin America’s cost-of-living crisis

    gender disparity — working women in Latin America earn, on average, 70 cents for every dollar earned by ... this amounts to at least nine extra hours of total workload a week, on average. Women in Latin America ... capitalised on the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s war on Ukraine to massively raise prices and post record ...

  5. Peru’s gender-based violence crisis requires structural solutions

    Feminism Healthcare Imperialism & war Latin America & the Caribbean Women Ben Radford ... ongoing colonisation on women: “The oppression of Latin American women’s bodies at the present time is ... specific impacts on women. Women-led resistance, not just against extractivism and environmental violence, ...

  6. The Hague Group forms to hold Israel accountable under international law for its genocide

    war on Gaza, which started in October 2023. Soon after, Honduras and Colombia withdrew their ... devastating impacts of the war on Gaza require Israel to be held accountable and material support for ... Palestinian self-determination. The Lancet medical journal estimates that Israel’s war on Gaza killed 64,260 ...

  7. ‘We Will Not Be Saved’: A powerful call to climate action from the Amazon

    Books & music Environment Imperialism & war Indigenous Latin America & the Caribbean ... territory and the impact on indigenous peoples forced to join the growing oil towns and settlements. She ... notes the violence, disease, alcoholism, dependence on money and a loss of connection to the land among ...

  8. ‘False solutions and empty promises’: COP29 ends with no meaningful climate agreements

    Shadow Report 2023. While rich countries lie that factors such as Russia’s war on Ukraine and global ... Parties on climate change ended without any agreements to meaningfully confront the climate crisis. The ... revealed on November 15 that at least 1773 fossil fuel lobbyists were granted access to COP29, outnumbering ...

  9. Exposing Israel’s justifications for genocide

    which was met with hostility and violence; and Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza since 2006 is defensive. The ... 2024 1416 52 weeks of protesting Israel’s war on Gaza: Tens of thousands demand a permanent ceasefire ... Books & music Democracy History Imperialism & war Middle East National liberation Refugees ...

  10. 'The Palestine Laboratory' exposes how Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world

    at the time harboured Nazi war criminals like Josef Mengele — who experimented on and killed hundreds ... Books & music Imperialism & war Middle East Ben Radford weapons industry Israel Palestine ... was based in East Jerusalem from 2016–20, reporting on Israeli repression in the West Bank and Gaza. ...

  11. Iran and Turkey deport more than 240,000 Afghan refugees

    Afghanistan: Hazaras in Kabul appeal for protection, visas Afghanistan: Hazara women protest attacks on ... Imperialism & war Middle East Refugees & migrants Ben Radford Turkey Iran Taliban The ... two-thirds were deported on chartered and scheduled flights. Ali Hekmat, an aid worker in Turkey helping ...

  12. Peru: Widespread protests follow Fujimori’s pardon

    Democracy Imperialism & war Latin America & the Caribbean Ben Radford Peru’s ... Constitutional Court reinstated a 2017 pardon granted to imprisoned former president Alberto Fujimori, on March ... forcibly sterilised more than 2000 Indigenous people, mostly women. He was tried in 2009 for his role in ...

  13. Right-wing coup plotters undermine democracy in Peru

    from the war in Ukraine. Peru imports about 75% of the oil it consumes and relies predominantly on ... came to power on a leftist platform with the support of Peru’s poorest and most marginalised people. In ... state officials; introduce a referendum on a new constitution and Constituent Assembly; and implement ...