The setting sun creates long shadows on the pavement in the crowded Del Safari neighborhood in the southwest of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Casting the shadows are young people playing percussion instruments or children break dancing or performing daring skateboard jumps.
Read MoreAt least 160 people have died this week from an outbreak of cholera in the central Artibonite region, according to Zanmi Lasante, the Haitian arm of renowned health organization Partners in Health.
Read MoreWe have arrived in Gaza at last! After a trouble-free drive from Al-Arish to Rafah, the Viva Palestina convoy crossed into Gaza. People lined the entire highway from Rafah to Gaza city, cheering and welcoming us.
Read MoreNeither hurricanes nor floods, nor the devastating January earthquake or Haiti’s chronic political instability managed to wipe out the organic gardening initiative underway in that country since 2005. The seed was planted in Argentina twenty years ago.
Read MoreTheir voices echo those of the many Colombian women — peasant farmers, indigenous and black women, and mothers of victims of forced disappearance — who have mobilized for peace and to fight impunity in a country that has suffered a half-century of armed conflict between leftist guerrillas, government forces and the far-right paramilitary groups that joined the fray in the 1980s.
Read MoreOne of the principal acts evidenced by the leaks made public by the NGO —whose most visible member is the organization’s Australian director, Julian Assange— is the policy of the American occupation troops and their allies in systematically covering up the deaths of innocent civilians.
Read MoreYesterday, Sunday October 17, spirits in our refugee camp in Lattakia, Syria, were high as a Greek cargo ship sailed towards Lattakia to pick up our 150 vehicles filled with five million dollars worth of medical and educational aid destined for the besieged people of Gaza. Hopes were high that all 380 convoy participants from more than 30 countries would have an early-morning Monday departure.
Read MoreWhat nature gives us is often taken for granted, but if its basic elements disappear, human life on Earth would not be possible. The mission of the biodiversity summit under way in Nagoya, Japan is to reverse the headlong rush towards the precipice.
Read MoreGuatemala needs to take steps to prepare for even worse problems of hunger in 2011, caused by climate change and farmers’ heavy dependence on a few basic crops like corn and beans, experts warned on the occasion of World Food Day, celebrated Saturday.
Read More“After our compañeros are rescued, we’re going to do everything we can to hold the people who were responsible for this accountable,” said the leader of CONFEMIN, which represents more than 18,000 miners who work at small, medium-size and large privately-owned mines — including the 33 miners at the San Jose mine in Copiaps, Atacama.
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