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Cardenas, Sonia. Human Rights in Latin America : A Politics of Terror and...
[This picture is on the cover of Sonia Cardenas’s book “Human Rights in Latin America: A Politics of Terror and hope.” The hand placed on the wall looks to be names of deceased or individuals who...
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Varela Huerta, Amarela. 2017. “La Trinidad Perversa de La Que Huyen Las...
Alexandre Meneghini/ReutersI believe that this photograph encapsulates what the Migrant Caravan looks like – thousands of people coming together from all walks of life in Central America march up...
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A Country Split in Half: Abortion as a Human Rights Issue in Argentina
by Lauren Junco, Jasmin Sanchez, Jennifer Mendoza, and Daniella Reyes This cartoon from Twitter (whose account was suspended) is of a Catholic priest saying “No legal abortion, no separation between...
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The New Regime of President Bolsonaro: Escalating LGBT Aimed Violence in Brazil
By Hannah Ross, Lina Mantanona, and Brooke Richards Brazil is one of the most progressive country in Latin America in terms of institutionalized LGBT rights, yet it is the most dangerous country in...
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Anastasie Lenoir, Katrina Manrique, Sarah Mayorga, & Nicole Rapista In 2017-2018, the caravana migrante, or migrant caravan, composed of Central American migrants fleeing violence, political...
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The Effects of Oil Drilling on the Human Rights of the Ecuadorian Peoples —...
Alicia Cahuilla, a member of the Waorani tribe in Ecuador’s Yasuni National Park, stands upon one of the many oil drilling sites in the Amazon. These oil production sites are putting Ecuador’s...
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The Suppression of Freedom of Speech, Press, and Media: The Case of Mexican...
By Angel Cardoza, Mysee Xiong, Krista Keplinger, Shaylene Fischmann Members of the press holding images of murdered comrades in Mexico during a protest against the disappearance of journalists. …“we...
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Guatemala and Honduras: Who Defends the Land Defenders?
Dossier by Group 2: Francisco Ferreyra, Lucero Morales, Laura Roser, Christian Scott Berta Cáceres. Goldman Environmental Foundation On March 2, 2016, several heavily armed men broke into Berta...
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Chavismo, Control & The Deterioration of Human Rights In Venezuela
(Rights: CNN 2018) By Colin Heurlin, Susana Sanchez, Georgia Sherman, Johnathon Skinner By 17 November 2018, the Venezuelan currency had reached an inflation level exceeding more than 1,300,000% in...
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The Constant Escalation of Drug Related Violence in Mexico
By Daniel Farinha and Edgar Alvarez-Rosa On December 11th of 2006 the Mexican president Felipe Calderon announced that he would begin a war against drugs by aiming to disband the world’s most powerful...
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El Salvador: From Civil War to Migrant Caravans, A Look at Human Rights...
By Elsy Mora, Sabrina Faucette, Cristian Maldonado, Rory Crowly and Dave Ivan Cruz Salvadorean migrants heading in a caravan to the U.S. cross the Suchiate River to Mexico as seen from Ciudad Tecun...
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Venezuelan Migration: Causes and Effects of the Mounting Humanitarian Crisis
Dossier Group 1: Ally Russell, Binwant Kahlon, Tracy Gordon, Karla Gomez Executive Summary Venezuelan migrants travel to Peru for asylum in the backs of trucks. Photo credit: Juan Vita The Guardian The...
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Femicide In The Country of Mexico
By: Adamaris Gallo, Andrea Cabezas, and Eric Garnica Femicide is defined as: “the extreme and ultimate manifestation of existing forms of violence against women in patriarchal societies. Crimes of...
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Stolen Innocence: Generational Violence against Children of El Salvador
Human Rights Dossier Group 15: Julia Nguyen, Cindy Lemus and Samantha Linarez An audio clip of Alisson Madrid, a 6-year old girl from El Salvador, along with other children being held in Border...
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Indigenous Land Disputes in Brazil
Indigenous Land Disputes in Brazil The vast South American country of Brazil is home to roughly nine hundred thousand indigenous people, and their land is spread out through Brazil, making up about...
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Guatemalan State Violence: How Political Instability Breeds Human Rights...
Dossier By: Emily Moncada, Nayda Peace, Rob Dellinger, and Jocelyn Vera Photo taken by Rob Dellinger in Guatemala In Guatemala, a country with a majority indigenous population, it is imperative to...
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Historical Dispossession and Community Agency: Contemporary Indigenous Rights...
By: Diana Cuevas, Rebecca Fraley-Gonzalez, Ryan Chima, Bertha Cazarez Loxicha street scene by Dalí Nelio In the field of human rights, it is often the case for victims of human rights violations to...
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U.S.-Mexico Border: Overlooked Injustices Against Humanity
By: Selena Hood, Aileen Flores, Odette Moran The focus of this dossier will be the violation of human rights along the heavily militarized US-Mexico border, specifically the victimization of Mexican...
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Venezuelan Refugee Crisis
Group #12: Jose Briceño-Perez, Julio Gonzalez, Jasmin Peña History of Venezuela: Economic crash, activism, and current political violence Venezuelans are leaving their country in high numbers, they...
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Mexico’s War on Journalism
By Eliana Carter, Vijay Mittal, and Preston Moore Looking up from the phone screen on the walk home, it becomes apparent that you have a tail. Seeing a hand move inside of the trench coat, the outline...
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“Right now we’re just leaving, later on we’ll see how to live”: The Migration...
By: Diana Sandoval, Sharon Giang, Rachel Hinojosa, Jose Ballesteros Awaiting at the Mexico border are thousands of primarily Central American migrants looking to escape the injustices back home, but...
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Nicaragua Government Crackdown
HMR 161 Group 19: Quetzally Cuahuey, Svetlana Prado, Juan Vaca The photographs were obtained from the Atlantic publication. To access the references Click Here. Nicaragua’s history has been plagued...
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Unraveling Venezuela: Identifying Food Shortages, Violence, and Social Strife
Children queue as they wait to receive free food which was prepared by residents and volunteers on a street in the low-income neighborhood of Caucaguita in Caracas, Venezuela. Suzette Gutierrez-...
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Waldmüller, Johannes M. “”Living Well Rather Than Living Better”: Measuring...
Waldmüller, Johannes M. “”Living Well Rather Than Living Better”: Measuring Biocentric Human-Nature Rights and Human-Nature Development in Ecuador.” The International Journal of Social Quality 5, no. 2...
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