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Human Rights & Social Inclusion

26 years after AMIA bombing, Argentines create digital commemorations amid pandemic

By Natasha Zaretsky / July 16, 2020

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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Filed Under: Brazil and the Southern Cone, Human Rights & Social Inclusion Tagged With: AMIA, Argentina, human rights, impunity, Justice, terrorism

The State of LGBT+ Rights in the Americas

June 30, 2020

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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Filed Under: Brazil and the Southern Cone, Central America, Events, Human Rights & Social Inclusion, North America, The Andes, The Caribbean Corner, Venezuela Tagged With: Americas, Chile, Costa Rica, Evangelicalism, human rights, Latin America, LGBT rights, LGBTI rights, LGBTQ, marriage equality, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Pride, same sex marriage

Social distancing in Latin American prisons

By Juan Morey & Miguel Sarre / April 29, 2020

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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Filed Under: Brazil and the Southern Cone, Central America, Human Rights & Social Inclusion, The Andes, The Caribbean Corner Tagged With: preventative prison

Latin America: Civil and political rights in the time of a pandemic

By David Lovatón Palacios / April 16, 2020

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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Filed Under: Brazil and the Southern Cone, Central America, Human Rights & Social Inclusion, North America, The Andes, The Caribbean Corner, Venezuela Tagged With: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, civil rights, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID19, Daniel Ortega, Donald Trump, El Salvador, freedom of expression, freedom of press, human right, human rights, IACHR, Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, Latin America, military, Nayib Bukele, Nicolás Maduro, political rights, President Trump, United States

Challenges to international human rights

By Christopher Sabatini / March 26, 2020

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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Filed Under: Brazil and the Southern Cone, Human Rights & Social Inclusion, North America

Uruguay returns to the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance

By Kyle Rapp & Nicolás Albertoni / March 19, 2020

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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Filed Under: Brazil and the Southern Cone, Human Rights & Social Inclusion Tagged With: Uruguay, Venezuela

Eight in ten people in the Western Hemisphere biased against women, UNDP

March 12, 2020

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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Filed Under: Brazil and the Southern Cone, Human Rights & Social Inclusion, North America, The Andes Tagged With: Gender Bias, Mexico

Latin America recorded the highest number of journalist killings in 2019

February 7, 2020

Latin America holds the non-enviable position of the world’s most dangerous region for ...
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Filed Under: Brazil and the Southern Cone, Central America, Human Rights & Social Inclusion, North America, Security & Rule of Law, The Andes, The Caribbean Corner, Venezuela

Human Rights Watch World Report 2020: Chile

By Alejandro Di Franco / February 6, 2020

In its new report, Human Rights Watch highlights the human rights violations committed by Chile’s Carabineros during last year's ...
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Filed Under: Brazil and the Southern Cone, Human Rights & Social Inclusion

Morales’ mandate in Guatemala comes to an end, Human Rights Watch examines the country

By Victoria Ariagno / February 3, 2020

During his inauguration, Guatemala’s new president, Alejandro Giammattei, promised to use a “hard hand” to deal with corruption and endemic violence in the country. At the same time, the government seeks to address the migration crisis by improving living conditions at ...
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Filed Under: Central America, Democracy & Elections, Human Rights & Social Inclusion