Paraguay: Indigenous Peoples tell their own stories with pictures

Thursday 9 December 2010 Amnesty International, NGOs Photovoice and Tierra Viva, backed the project that enables the Yakye Axa and the Sawhoyamaxa communities to take photographs that reflect their struggle. Amnesty International has facilitated a unique photographic project that helps two indigenous communities in Paraguay to tell their own stories through the pictures they take. The organization, alongside NGO Photovoice and the Paraguayan NGO Tierra Viva, backed the project that enables the Yakye Axa and the Sawhoyamaxa communities, who have been fighting to regain the right to live on…

© Amnestie Internationale - jeudi 9 décembre 2010