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Independent filmmakers creating social issue documentaries, surfacing stories that are vital to a vibrant and resilient democracy, should be able to access spaces where these stories can become part of public discourse....

Our SolidariLabs team in Colombia is working on a multimedia storytelling project called “Guardianas del Atrato” (“Defenders of the Atrato”), part of which is to highlight the Afro Colombian women living along the Atrato River in the Chocó region, who are defending the ecological rights...

We are watching the political and social turmoil engulfing Peru, with protesters being attacked by government forces, with more than 50 killed as of this writing, as yet another manifestation of anger bursting in Latin American societies living in extreme economic and social injustice conditions....

The VIVX Leadership Team. Photo: Skylight At Skylight, human rights is not something we observe once a year on International Human Rights Day. The promotion of human rights and the defense of those who uphold those rights is at the very core of who we are. Today,...

Let me start with a personal note: I first arrived in Cartagena, Colombia many years ago shortly after being enthralled by Gabriel García Márquez’s magnificent novel “100 Years of Solitude,” a story that lit my imagination and in many ways set the course of my...

The forces of impunity in Guatemala are roaring back with a vengeance and their closing of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala on September 3, 2019 is a stark manifestation of that. ...

Yalitza Aparicio photoshopped and made to look whiter and thinner on the cover of ¡HOLA! magazine (left). Yalitza untouched (right). The ¡HOLA! cover has generated much controversy. By Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj The well-deserved recognition for Yalitza Aparicio, who through her performance in “Roma” shows...

Supporters of the defendants outside the courtroom at the No More Deaths trial Post by Pamela Yates, January 18, 2019 The verdict came quickly and it was harsh: Guilty. Flashback one day to the closing arguments that summed up the case. Nathaniel Walters, the US government prosecutor is blunt. “This case...

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