The technology industry has always had a gender gap and studies suggest the COVID-19 pandemic may widen it unless countermeasures are ...
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Latin America and the digital gender gap challenge
By Ana Basco / 
26 years after AMIA bombing, Argentines create digital commemorations amid pandemic
By Natasha Zaretsky / 
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a new opportunity to revitalize the meaning of the commemorations that have been important to justice and human rights movements in ...
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The State of LGBT+ Rights in the Americas
Global Americans hosts a panel on LGBT+ rights in the Americas to discuss legal advancements, how the community is affected by COVID-19 and what more needs to be ...
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Social distancing in Latin American prisons
By Juan Morey & Miguel Sarre /
Latin America’s overcrowded prisons are extremely vulnerable to COVID-19’s high propagation rate. A possible solution is ending preventative ...
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Latin America: Civil and political rights in the time of a pandemic
By David Lovatón Palacios /
Governments across Latin America have taken exceptional measures to stop the uncontrollable spread of COVID-19. Faced with this, there is a valid fear that these measures could exacerbate abuses of power or increase human rights ...
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Challenges to international human rights
By Christopher Sabatini /
Not only are democracy and freedom in the world declining, the willingness of liberal democracies to defend the norms and institutions that support them is also fraying. To what extent does that reflect popular ...
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Uruguay returns to the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance
By Kyle Rapp & Nicolás Albertoni /
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More than six months after abandoning the TIAR, Uruguay rejoins the pact. The government’s reversal provides Uruguay with an important voice in regional ...
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Eight in ten people in the Western Hemisphere biased against women, UNDP
Findings from the UNDP’s new Gender Social Norms Index suggest the glass ceiling is not made of glass, but of bias and prejudice against women. In the Western Hemisphere, this bias is prevalent in 80 percent of the ...
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Latin America recorded the highest number of journalist killings in 2019
Latin America holds the non-enviable position of the world’s most dangerous region for ...
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