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...
View ArticleFemicide 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...
View ArticleStolen 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...
View ArticleIndigenous 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...
View ArticleGuatemalan 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...
View ArticleHistorical 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...
View ArticleU.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...
View ArticleVenezuelan 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...
View ArticleMexico’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...
View Article“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...
View ArticleNicaragua 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...
View ArticleUnraveling 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-...
View ArticleWaldmüller, 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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