This year, LASC’s annual Latin America Week (LAW) was focused on Gender and Extractive Industries. Between April 6th and...
09/04/2019
Sally
Sally O’Neill Sanchez was an Irish woman and long-time Trócaire aid worker who spent over 40 years in Latin...
01/02/2019
News From The Front
With an ever increasing number of homophobic attacks in Guatemala, Eimhin O’Reilly speaks to one of the people at...
Today Brazil goes to the polls, choosing between the Workers’ Party’s Fernando Haddad and the neo-fascist Jair Bolsonaro in...
Over the past two decades Latin America has taken the lead in legislative rights for LGBTs, yet there are...
26/03/2018
Blog: Brazil’s Black Genocide
With over 60,000 homicides a year, Brazil is facing a crisis that overwhelmingly impacts poor, young, black men.
20/03/2018
Blog: Marielle Presente!
The response to a politician’s murder may be a turning point in finding a way out of Rio’s crisis....
On 31st December 2017, LASC Coordinator Chris O’Connell spoke to Near FM’s Global Solidarity programme on the escalation of...
18/01/2018
Blog: Insult to Injury
The 2009 conviction of Alberto Fujimori, Peru’s autocratic former president, on multiple counts of crimes against humanity was widely...
21/12/2017
News: Timeline of events in Honduras
LASC is extremely concerned by the escalating violence in Honduras since elections were held on 26th November 2017,...
