On 21 September 1976 Chilean secret service agents set off a car bomb in Washington DC killing TNI's director, Orlando Letelier along with Ronni Moffitt, a fundraiser for the Institute for Policy Studies. Here you will find an overview of dossiers, articles and news related to this brutal assassination, from the steps taken to bring the persons primarily responsible for his assassination to justice, to the The Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards: An award given in honor of our fallen colleagues while celebrating new heroes of the human rights movement from the United States and the Americas.
Mariano Aguirre is an independent analyst on international politics. He is an associate fellow of the International Security Program in Chatham House (London) and fellow of the Latin American Network on Sustainable and Inclusive Security of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. He has been Senior Advisor on Peacebuilding at the Office of the Resident Coordinator of the United Nations in Colombia ...
In the context of ongoing court cases brought against Shell in 2020 this exposition explores justice struggles that preceded courtrooms: People Powered Movement from Indonesia to Ogoni Indigenous resistance to Curacao labor struggle and Antiapartheid boycott Shell. Through installations, audio stories, photography and relics of resistance, this exhibition invites visitors to learn about ancestors in resistance and the call for decolonial climate justice.
