How tolerant are citizens across the Americas of LGBT political rights and marriage equality? While support for political rights is higher than support ...
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Tolerance of LGBT Rights-A Mixed Bag in the Americas
UNASUR action on medicines and the right to health
Pía Riggirozzi |
Can southern regional organizations strengthen the bargaining position of less-developed countries and their societies’ needs in health care? By bringing ...
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How does the region stack up in women in political power?
Latin American and the Caribbean have made incredible strides in electing women heads of state and in implementing gender quota laws for national ...
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Global Campaign against Democratic Norms (NED Event)
Using a number of justifications, including that of regional security or defending state sovereignty, authoritarian regimes are pursuing new ...
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Voting in UNHRC: Sri Lanka
This week we look at how countries voted in the UNHRC regarding Sri Lanka. The government of then-Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa was accused of engaging ...
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The press freedom crisis in Brazil
Carlos Lauría and Sara Rafsky |
Despite Brazil’s image as a regional leader, South America’s largest democracy has become one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists. ...
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Ecuador, Argentina and the at-risk inter-American system
Christopher Sabatini |
Three years ago, Ecuador, Argentina, Bolivia and Venezuela led a failed effort to gut the inter-American system of human rights by limiting the functions ...
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The deportation of Haitian-Dominicans
Natasha Zaretsky |
In defending the 2013 Constitutional Court decision that denied citizenship to undocumented Haitian immigrants and their children and now its ...
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Violence, self censorship and culture
Rick Rockwell |
This past May, El Salvador suffered its highest murder rate since the end of the country’s civil war 23 years ago. But this grisly flash of news—what ...
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Obama, Rousseff and the crucible of human rights
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