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A Mapuche protest in Chile / credit: Jubileu Sul

West Complicit in Arming Chile to Violate Mapuche Rights

Carole Concha Bell December 20, 2021 Carole Concha Bell

Between former U.S.-backed dictator Augusto Pinochet’s terror laws being used to criminalize Mapuche elders and activists, the United States and the United Kingdom arming Chile’s security forces, and the failure of international agencies to treat the Mapuche conflict with urgency, the West appears complicit in the genocide of the Mapuche people.

Women in the Rhino Refugee Camp in Urua, Uganda. Developing countries rely developed countries to help them adapt and mitigate climate-change effects / credit: Ninno JackJr on Unsplash

Ahead of COP26, African Countries Reject EU Trying to Back Out of Climate Finance Talks

Rishika Pardikar October 30, 2021 Rishika Pardikar

With its climate pact and a climate law, the European Union is often viewed as progressive when it comes to dealing with the climate crisis. But positions that both EU countries and the EU bloc have taken in the run-up to the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26), the largest annual climate-change conference, paint a different picture.