By El Deber: The study highlights how Indigenous and rural communities are the most affected by deforestation, water pollution, and climate change. A recent investigation by OXFAM Bolivia, titled A Fuego y Mercurio. Crisis Ecológica y Desigualdades en Bolivia, reveals the deep connection between environmental degradation and the increase in social inequalities in the country….
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Mining, Land Grabbing, and Drug Trafficking | Minería, avasallamientos y narcotráfico
By ANF, Eju.tv: Mining, Land Grabbing, and Drug Trafficking: The Main Threats to Bolivian Park Rangers “Since the creation of Sernap, 18 park rangers have died while performing their duties in protected areas,” reads the document. Source: ANF “They’re going to beat them, whip them, kill them.” These are some of the threats that the…
Indigenous threatened by violent invading miners | Indígenas amenazados por violentos mineros invasores
Indigenous Bolivians flee homes as backlash to mining protest turns explosive by Maxwell Radwin, Mongabay: Environmental activists in Bolivia say they’ve become the targets of discrimination, death threats and even bombings after speaking out against harmful mining operations in the department of Oruro. The activists, most of them women, have faced escalating violence this year because…
Growing concern for environmental defenders | Crece preocupación por defensores ambientales
El Diario: The People’s Defender backed the UN Special Rapporteur A judge in Oruro rejected the action brought by indigenous people from Totoral Chico. While the People’s Defender joined the concern of the United Nations Rapporteur regarding the persecution of environmental rights defenders in Bolivia, this Thursday, in Oruro, Judge Odal Herrera, acting as a…
They ask for international support for the rights of indigenous peoples | Piden apoyo internacional por derechos de pueblos indígenas
El Diario: The representative for Creemos, María René Álvarez, announced that she had sent eight notes to different United Nations rapporteurs to advocate for the rights of indigenous peoples and to denounce the forest fires that this year totaled 3.3 million hectares burned in national territory. During an interview with the international network CNN, Álvarez…
Actual administración de justicia | 101 | Current administration of justice
ANF, El Diario: They warn of an “almost criminal and impunity” structure in the administration of justice The vice president of the Permanent Assembly of Human Rights of Bolivia (Apdhb), Yolanda Herrera, asserted that in the entire area of Bolivian justice there is an “almost criminal” structure that violates human rights, where officials are not…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 