South America: by rank

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UDHR 60th Anniversary: Tamaryn Nelson (in English & Portuguese)

For 16 years, WITNESS has harnessed the power of video to advance human rights....

Brazil

Impunity, Mass killings, Police brutality

Witnessed: 257 times

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Brazil: Severina's Story (Uma História Severina)

Severina had her destiny changed by a Supreme Court decision....

Brazil

Reproductive rights, Violence against women

Witnessed: 864 times

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Amazon: in the hands of a few

Farmers and politicians of the Brazilian municipality of Juína (Mato Grosso state) hinders Greenpeace activists, OPAN (Native Amazon Operation) members and european journalists's visit to the Enawene...

Brazil

Indigenous peoples

Witnessed: 6570 times

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Chevron's Amazon Abu Ghraib

The largest oil-related environmental disaster in the world - Chevron dumped over 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater in the Ecuadorian Amazon....

Ecuador

Environment, Indigenous peoples, Water

Witnessed: 1257 times

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Ghost Train

Argentina's economic crisis in the early 2000s threw tens of thousands of people out of work....

Argentina

Poverty

Witnessed: 9269 times

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SOS in Ecuador's Amazon Rainforest

A PSA broadcast in 2007 on Live Earth representing the struggle to save a national forest, Yasuni, in Ecuador. How to learn a lesson from the toxic legacy Chevron left in Ecuador.

Ecuador

Corporations and human rights, Environment, Indigenous peoples

Witnessed: 669 times

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Four Women (Quem são elas?)

July, 2004. The Brazilian Supreme Court temporarily authorized pregnant women carrying anencephalic fetuses to interrupt their pregnancies (abortion is illegal in Brazil)....

Brazil

Independence of the judiciary, Reproductive rights, Violence against women

Witnessed: 705 times

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43% of the population in Latin America and the Caribbean live in poverty

As a service provider committed to guaranteeing sexual and reproductive rights, a significant component of IPPF’s work focuses on ensuring that all people have access to health services and informat...

Brazil

Poverty, Reproductive rights, Sexual rights

Witnessed: 3113 times

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UDHR 60th Anniversary: Kelly Matheson

For 16 years, WITNESS has harnessed the power of video to advance human rights....

Ecuador

Corporations and human rights, Environment, Indigenous peoples

Witnessed: 214 times

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