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The Honduran Coup of 2009 and Its Impact On Human Rights
Honduras and its relationship to human rights is a product of the rest of the world’s progress. This country in Latin America has never held a space of predominant attention due to the western world’s...
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A Multi-country Analysis of Human Trafficking in Latin America
Megan Cliff Kimberly Guzman Erin Waugh Executive Summary As is any other industry, human trafficking is essentially based off of supply and demand. In particular, however, the industry feeds off of...
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LGBT Rights in Latin America: Progress and Resistance
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO – JUNE 02: People march during the anual gay pride parade on June 02, 2013 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Photo by David Gasser/LatinContent/Getty Images) Samantha Aguilar, Cassandra...
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Indigenous Rights in Guatemala: The Foreign Mining Issue
Dana Park, Meseret Ghirmai, Austin Wells Guatemalans protest Canadian mining company GoldCorp, urging their withdrawal because of the human rights violations it brought about,hence the slogan...
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The Chained Pearl of Antilles: Repression of Human Rights in the Cuban State
A communist state does not allow for any political or social movements inside the country. This was the case in the Soviet Union, Communist China and to today Cuba. Starting with Fidel Castro, those...
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Venezuela’s Presidencies: A Legacy of Repressing Human Rights Defenders
1 Introduction In the wake of the Caracazo 2014 violent protests in Venezuela, which occurred from February through March, over 3,000 people were arrested and another 43 died.[1] With this tragedy, the...
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Labor Rights Following CAFTA-DR
Workers rally Since the enactment of free trade agreements such as NAFTA and CAFTA-DR, there have been numerous accounts of labor violations in addition to a heavy presence of child labor in the member...
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Blog Post Prompt & Sample post – The Roots of La Sentencia
Blog Post Assignment Due on Monday 6/29: Warm up for Dossier Elizabeth Mahony and Rachel Nolan, “The Roots of La Sentencia,” Jacobin Magazine online (June 20, 2015) Click here to see full interview...
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Recent Killing of Journalist in Mexico Underscores Need to Strengthen...
Government Program to Protect Human Rights Defenders and Journalists Faces Serious Challenges. Washington Office on Latin America Organization Online ( May 14, 2015). Mexico has become one of the most...
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The Last of the Iron Curtain – Emergence of Cuban-American Relations
“World Report 2014: Cuba” Human Rights Watch online (June 25th, 2015) Click here to see full text Recently, America has been in talks to remove or at least lessen the embargoes on its Cuban neighbors...
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Brazil Passes Femicide Law to Curb Domestic Violence
Donna Bowater and Priscilla Moraes, “Brazil Passes Femicide Law to Curb Domestic Violence,” Aljazeera America (May 10, 2015). Link to Original Article In March, 2015, a femicide law was passed in order...
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IWGIA 2015 Yearbook Entry on Brazil – Brazil’s Violations of Indigenous...
Maria de Lourdes Beldi de Alcantara, “Brazil”, entry in IWGIA, The Indigenous World 2015 online (April 21, 2015) Click here to see full article The International Workgroup for Indigenous Affairs...
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Colombia: Top Brass Linked to Extrajudicial Executions
Human Rights Watch, “Colombia: Top Brass Linked to Extrajudicial Executions,” Human Rights Watch (June 24, 2015). Link to the original article The article is based off of a Human Rights Watch report...
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Mexico: Investigate Michoacán Killings
Click here to see full article The observation of human rights in Latin America still raises some questions. This is following the recent mass killing of civilians by the state security personnel yet...
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How Brazil’s World Cup has sold its people short in the Amazon
Jillian Steinhauer, “Brazil Evicts Indigenous People in Violent Clash Over Sports Stadium” Hyperallergic (April 1, 2013).Link to Article Even before the high profile arrests of many FIFA officials this...
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How Fifa and the 2014 World Cup Expanded Poverty in Brazil
“Brazil World Cup: FIfa and business miss an open goal for human rights” – Phil Bloomer and Julia Mello Nieva. 13 June 2014 Click here for original text “FIFA is recognized as one of the world’s...
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Tropic of Cancer: The United States’ Human Rights Violations in Vieques
April 17, 2008. An unexploded ordinance is blown up during “cleanup” at the former Vieques Naval Training Range, on Vieques island, Puerto Rico. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File) During President...
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The Violation of Human Rights in the Modern Cuban Prison System
Combinado del Este is one of the largest prisons in Cuba and a primary location of alleged prisoner abuse. The Cuban government is one of the last four remaining socialist nations of the Cold War, and...
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The Indigenous Struggle against Neoliberalism in Brazil
If you’ve heard about Brazil in the news over the last decade, you’ve probably heard some mention of its growing economy and entrance onto the world stage as a global economic power. Acronyms like...
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Water Rights in Bolivia: The Consequences of Neoliberal Economics in Bolivia
In the early days of September, 1999 the President of Bolivia Hugo Banzer signed a contract with the Bechtel Corporation. This contract privatized the water supply of the Bolivian city of Cochabamba...
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