After receiving Lula da Silva’s visit, the leftist leader denounced the current situation facing the Argentine people. On Thursday, Brazilian President Lula da Silva visited former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez at her home in Buenos Aires, where she has been under house arrest since June 17. RELATED: Brazilian President Lula Visits Cristina Fernandez at Her […]

Health workers have filed a formal complaint against the far-right president for dereliction of public duty. So far this year, President Javier Milei has cut Argentina’s public health budget by 10%, deepening the health care crisis for the country’s most vulnerable populations. RELATED: Torches for Education: Argentina Confronts Milei’s War on Public Universities The consulting […]

UN Secretary-General António Guterres delivered a stark warning to the Security Council, linking poverty, inequality, and underdevelopment to the surge in global conflict. “Poverty breeds despair. Despair fuels unrest. And unrest tears at the fabric of societies,” he said, emphasizing that nine of the ten countries with the lowest Human Development Indicators are currently in […]

In the context of President Javier Milei’s neoliberal measures, child poverty in Argentina reached its highest level since the 2001-2002 crisis, with a peak of 67.3% in the first half of 2024, according to a report by the Argentine Social Debt Observatory (ODSA) of the Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA). RELATED: Argentina Supreme Court Ruling: Justice […]

According to the latest data published by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Inec), 49.4% of children in Ecuador live in poverty due to unmet basic needs, in the context of Children’s Day, which is commemorated this Sunday. RELATED: Ecuadorian Police Forcefully Evict Indigenous Citizens from FICSH Headquarters Poverty due to unmet basic needs […]

Cases of police and military abuse notoriously affect marginal neighborhoods where black populations are concentrated. This week, the Permanent Committee for the Defense of Human Rights (CDH) reported 27 cases of enforced disappearance and another killing of an Afro-descendant child by the military in Ecuador. RELATED: Ecuadorians To Elect Their President on Sunday CDH attorney […]

Currently, 87% of families face food insecurity in low-income areas across 16 Argentine provinces. Tuesday, December 10, marks one year since Javier Milei assumed the Argentine presidency, a period during which he has implemented an economic plan focused on reducing the size of the State as a means of achieving macroeconomic balance and controlling inflation. […]

The Brazilian president deemed it “unacceptable” that trillions of dollars are allocated to military expenditures. On Monday, Brazilian President Lula da Silva inaugurated the Group of 20 (G20) summit in Rio de Janeiro, emphasizing that eradicating hunger is essential to achieving a world at peace. RELATED: G20 Summit: Lula and Al Sisi Reject Attempts to […]

On Thursday night, social organizations joined in a ‘National Blackout’ to protest recent hikes. This week, Argentine President Javier Milei approved a series of increases in public service rates, set to take effect on November 2. The new measures include a 2.5 percent rise in electricity rates and a 2.7 percent increase in gas rates. […]

Among them are 455 million people residing in countries at war or in fragile peace. On Thursday, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the University of Oxford published the 2024 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index Report, which shows that at least 1.1 billion people are living in poverty. Among them are 455 million people residing […]