Authors: Nico de Leeuw, Rosa Jorba “Every two weeks, a language vanishes, taking invaluable cultural heritage with it.” According to UNESCO, 40% of the estimated 7,000 languages spoken worldwide are in danger of disappearing at… Read More »The Fight Against Indigenous Language Loss
Author: Bruno Villalobos A woman walks into the depths of the Andean highlands, her husband dead and her son never to return. Phaxsi heads towards an unknown fate. But she is not merely a woman—she… Read More »FROM AND FOR THE ANDES: The Cinema of Óscar Catacora
Author: Kea Medupe Guess the Criminal Today’s column will present to readers the crime of Ecocide via a short mystery fiction. Using a narrative structure, the column will explain a fictional environmental crime in a… Read More »Mystery of the Dying Forest: Who’s Really Guilty?
Authors: Nico de Leeuw and Bruno Villalobos In a global food system characterized by food waste, exploitation of resources, and seed market monopolies, the concept of food sovereignty has gained traction, as it rejects the… Read More »The World Trade Organization: Friend or Foe of Food Sovereignty?
Authors: Zsófia Rába, Rosa Jorba Indigenous women around the world face a unique intersection of challenges stemming from their gender, ethnicity, and socio-economic status. As primary caretakers of natural resources, they play a crucial role… Read More »Indigenous Women’s Economic Empowerment for a Sustainable Future
Author: Bruno Villalobos Following our earlier publication on Ukraine’s attempts to prosecute Ecocide, including its legal framework and current legal proceedings, this article explores the role of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the prosecution… Read More »Prosecuting Ecocide in Ukraine: The Role of the International Criminal Court (ICC) amidst the war
Authors: Kea Medupe, Carmen Piorno Introduction In times marked by increasingly severe environmental degradation, the term “Ecocide” has become popular as a prospective legal prosecution against people responsible for large-scale environmental harm. But what exactly… Read More »Ecocide on Trial: Legal Battles in Brazil and Ukraine
Authors: Yasmine Rugarli, Nico de Leeuw, Bruno Villalobos At a time when the world’s attention is drawn to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) we realise that watching isn’t enough. We must acknowledge our collective… Read More »Mboko Lopiki and the Struggle for Justice in the DRC
Author: Bruno Villalobos The return of Donald J. Trump to the White House has been proclaimed by his supporters as the return of American exceptionalism and as the beginning of an ever-lasting era of American… Read More »Trump’s anti-environmentalism, or when ‘the end of history’ meets the ‘end of the world’
Authors: Francisca Seabra and Rosa Jorba The rise of soybean farming in Santarém, northeastern Brazil, has brought multiple social, environmental, and cultural consequences. From deforestation and mercury contamination to the displacement of Indigenous communities due… Read More »From the Tapajós to the World: Viviane Borari on Protecting the Amazon