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In this section Real World Radio aims to expose the murders of social activists and the cases of death threats against leaders. We will report on the wave of criminalization of the social protest. This new section of Real World Radio is also a memorial page for all those who were murdered in their struggle for a socially just world.

This special section is funded in part by the European Commission.

24 February 2011 | News | Alert! Sandra missing | Social activists at risk

With Love and Hope

Colombia: Family and friends of missing activist set up tent

On Wednesday, in Cali (Valle del Cauca), Colombia, the family and friends of the environmentalist and teacher Sandra Viviana Cuellar, who disappeared on February 17th, organized a massive march and set up a permanent tent to receive new information in the area where the activist disappeared. Read more
23 February 2011 | News | Alert! Sandra missing | Social activists at risk

They won’t give up

Colombia: more efforts and demonstrations to find missing activist

On Wednesday, there will be a march outside Cali, Colombia, to raise awareness among the local population about the disappearance of environmental activist Sandra Viviana Cuellar, and to pressure authorities to step up her search. Read more
21 February 2011 | News | Alert! Sandra missing | Social activists at risk

We are waiting for her

Great concern over missing Colombian environmental activist

Different social organizations from Colombia are working very hard and joining efforts in the search of environmental activist Sandra Viviana Cuellar Gallego, who disappeared from Cali, in Valle del Cauca department, Colombia, last February 17. Many Latin American and international organizations are providing their support. Read more
16 February 2011 | Special reports | Social activists at risk

Unstoppable storm

New death threats against environmental activists in Cabañas (El Salvador)

People resisting mining are receiving death threats in El Salvador. Murders of environmental activists have remained unpunished in the past. Read more
10 February 2011 | News | Social activists at risk

Always Present

Retired military officers threatened journalist in Uruguay

The group Foro Libertad y Concordia is made up by retired Uruguayan military officers. In the past weeks, they have been making headlines due to their threats to disregard court rulings related to the violation of human rights that took place during the dictatorship, between 1973 and 1985. Read more
8 February 2011 | News | Social activists at risk

No Cells

Andean indigenous coordinate confrontation against the criminalization of their struggles

Interview with Miguel Palacin Quispe of the Andean Coordination of Indigenous Organizations (CAOI) during the regional meeting on the growing criminalization of the struggles against extractive industries, held in Peru. Read more
2 February 2011 | News | Social activists at risk

Silence in the Jungle

Peruvian radio denounces harassment by Alan Garcia’s administration

Community radio La Voz de Bagua played an extremely important job in the events of June, 2009, when four Amazon indigenous people were massacred for opposing mining concessions and the privatization of natural resources. Read more
2 February 2011 | News | Social activists at risk

Action and Reaction

Mubarak followers attack peaceful demonstrators

Riding horses and camels and armed with sticks and knifes, Hosni Mubarak’s followers charged against the crowd demonstrating in Cairo. The Army didn’t oppose to this, and didn’t intervene in the conflicts between demonstrators in favor and against the government. Read more
2 February 2011 | News | Social activists at risk

The End of Fear

Hundreds of thousands of people willing to end Egyptian regime

Over a million people took to the streets of Cairo on Tuesday to demand the end of Hosni Mubarak’s administration, in the largest mobilization in the eighth consecutive day of protests in the country. Read more
31 January 2011 | News | Free Honduras | Social activists at risk

580 days of resistance

A year since Lobo was inaugurated, resistance is growing in Honduras

The Honduran organized peasant movement, which is a member of La Via Campesina, carried out demonstrations across the country on Thursday, to mark the first anniversary of Porfirio Lobo's administration, who is considered by the popular movement as a continuation of the coup d'etat perpetrated against president Manuel Zelaya. Read more