IdeaMe is an online platform, which helps creators, be they inventors, artists, or designers, among others, to finance their projects through crowd funding. The Indy features and promotes one project every week, with the aim of helping the creators finance and achieve their dreams. This week: Water in the Desert

The repression at Borda Hospital last month is the latest in a string of incidents that have put the Metropolitan police’s violent ways under the spotlight. George Nelson analyses the police’s behaviour.

A garden, deep within the grounds of the Borda hospital, is speeding the recovery of mentally ill patients who can engage in therapeutic work away from the confines of the building. George Nelson reports.

In a world first, former dictator José Efraín Ríos Montt is being tried for genocide in a domestic court in Guatemala. However, the trial has been marked by scandals and controversies. Avery Kelly reports.

Uruguayan judges and prosecutors are beginning to defy the Supreme Court of Justice’s closure of human rights investigations. Francesca Lessa and Pierre-Louis Le Goff analyse the situation.

Brandon Foster tells the story of the Awá people from Brazil, whose existence is currently under threat due to the invasion of their land in the Amazon by loggers, settlers, and ranchers.

Aigul Safiullina visits the Santa Rosa community six years after they reclaimed their ancestral territory in Leleque, Patagonia, now a symbol of the Mapuche struggle for land and identity in Argentina.

IdeaMe is an online platform, which helps creators, be they inventors, artists, or designers, among others, to finance their projects through crowd funding. The Indy features and promotes one project every week, with the aim of helping the creators finance and achieve their dreams. This week: Acciones Coordinadas Contra la Trata de Personas (ACCT).

Closing off The Indy’s Women’s Month, Soledad Vega reflects on the many challenges that still lie ahead in the quest for gender equality in Argentina and Latin America.

Buenos Aires is home to many museums and memorials commemorating the victims of the 1976-83 dictatorship, but there are many more unmarked places that still hold powerful memories from that period.