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      This article describes how the Jamaican theatre collective, Sistren, hosted workshops on issues that ranged from migration to pregnancy, child rearing, birth control, and sexual violence. Held at sugar estates and factories across the country, the workshops involved dramatic exercises to educate audiences on the social barriers faced by women.

      Jamaican poet Lorna Goodison, formerly the writer-in-residence at the University of the West Indies, Mona, discusses how she uses poems as a medium for channeling the suffering of Caribbean peoples—specifically in the aftermath of Hurricane Gilbert. She is the author of "Jamaica Women: An Anthology", of "I am Becoming My …

      In this article that surveys the record of women's rights in the Caribbean, the author suggests that, despite the significant advances made during the UN Decade for Women (1975-85), women remain "largely marginalized and deprived" in Caribbean societies. The author interviewed leading scholars on Caribbean womanhood to determine the limits …

      The conquest and resource exploitation of the Amazon territories is discussed in this presentation to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations. The presentation emphasizes "the essential nature of an indigenous participation in the formulation of recognised international human rights".

      An expression of Canadian Indigenous solidarity with the Maya people of Guatemala, this article deals with military repression and, as an example of it, recounts the story of an German-American agronomist who was killed in Guatemala in 1980.

      An article on the challenges facing Jamaican women who sought gender equality in the late 1970s. The author argues that women were disproportionately affected by the island's neoliberal economic reforms. She explores this theme through the struggle against hoarding, the fight for paid maternity leave, and the protests against austerity …

      An interview with Honor Ford-Smith of the Jamaica School of Drama. Ford-Smith, former CERLAC Associate Director, recounts how she came to form Sistren, a women's theatre collective that draws on the experiences of Jamaican actresses to produce nationally-acclaimed performances. The interview also deals with Sistren's two-week tour to Canada where …

      This article on the annual Inter-American Congress on Indigenous Populations presents both critiques of Brazilian policy toward Amazonic peoples (e.g., Ralph Nader's accusations of genocide) and the defense presented by Brazilian government officials (that they "are treated humanely, altruistically, and in a Christian manner").

      Focusing on the Waorani (Huaorani) people and encroachment on their territories in Ecuador, this article discusses the violation of Indigenous rights as a consequence of destructive colonial practices arising from oil and mineral extraction.

      An exposé on the damaging effects of oil extraction on the Huaorani (Waorani) peoples in Ecuador, including water contamination, animal extermination, and cancer. Although the Ecuadorian government claims that oil extraction benefits the country and its people, it is the Indigenous people that pay the costs.

      The Yanomami peoples' territory and survival is the focus of this article. It reveals that the Brazilian government has not take the necessary steps to give the 9.4 million hectares of Yanomami territory legal protection.