May 29, 2019 | Central America, Latin America & Caribbean
by Ainhoa Montoya (ILAS) and Constanza Pauchulo (Lawyer & Researcher) Populations inhabiting resource-rich territories have engaged with resource extraction in varied ways. In Central America, like in the Andean, Amazonian, and Southern Cone regions of Latin...
Mar 12, 2019 | Central America, El Salvador, Latin America
Courts have increasingly become the locus of environmental disputes. Dr Ainhoa Montoya looks at one such case, which occurred in El Salvador, where resource extraction has preoccupied many of its citizens for more than a decade. In 2017, the Salvadoran Legislative...
Jul 20, 2016 | Caribbean, Central America, LAC and the World, Latin America, Latin America & Caribbean, South America
by Dr. Gibrán Cruz-Martínez, Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies The world’s population is ageing, and Latin America and the Caribbean is no exception. By 2030, the number of older people – those over 60 – is expected to grow by 56 per cent...
Jun 20, 2016 | Central America, El Salvador, Latin America, Latin America & Caribbean
by Leigh Binford, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, CUNY To coincide with publication of a revised and expanded edition of his “The El Mozote Massacre: Human Rights and Global Implications”,...
Feb 2, 2016 | Argentina, Brazil, Central America, Chile, Latin America, South America
by Christine Anderson (Latin America Research Librarian) and Julio Cazzasa (Special Collections Cataloguer), Senate House Library On 23 February 2016, Senate House Library will be hosting “Thinking Inside the Boxes”, a series of talks about its extensive...
Mar 31, 2015 | Caribbean, Central America, Latin America, South America
by His Excellency Manuel J. Benítez de Castro, ILAS Associate Fellow ILAS Associate Fellow Manuel J. Benítez de Castro of the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs gives an introduction to his recent reflections on the cultural, social, political, and economic factors...
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