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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionRule of law is being dismantled in Central America and Europe must act
A culture of impunity in Central American countries like Guatemala is turning the region into a hotbed of crime....
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisAcross Latin America, the fight for defenders’ justice intensifies
If we are serious about human rights, we should not stop demanding justice for Berta Cáceres and Marielle Franco
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisA health check for democracy in Latin America
This year’s election cycle will tell us whether political systems in the region can deal with social tensions made...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaHonduras: Caravan of the damned
Recent hurricanes come on top of a desperate economic situation and push more Hondurans northwards, Yet the US aid...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationRelentless rising violence inside prisons in Honduras
Targeted killings, massacres, and deadly riots have all occurred in Honduras’ maximum-security prisons this year,...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWho killed Berta Cáceres?
Book review: Who killed Berta Cáceres: Dams, death squads, and an indigenous defender’s battle for the planet, by...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta2018 was the year crime became an ideology in the Americas
In spite of some valuable initiatives to stregnthen the rule of law and tackle impunity in the region, l2018 has...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaInSight Crime’s 2018 Homicide Round-Up
In its Homicide Round-Up, InSight Crime looks into the murder rates country by country and the factors behind them. Español.
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Published in: democraciaAbierta#ArchivoDemoAbierta2018: a year of environmental challenges
The protection of the environment is so crucial for upholding democracy that however the subject is approached, it...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaBetween a wall and a hard place: what now for Hondurans in Tijuana?
Who could have imagined that a group of poor people with little more than plastic flip-flops on their feet and 200...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta#JusticiaParaImelda: the difficult battle for women’s rights in Central America
Whilst we await the postponed trial of Imelda Cortez for the 17th of December, the battle to tear down legal...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta#CaravanaMigrante: 5 keys to understand the phenomenon challenging Trump
The humanitarian crisis provoked by thousands of migrants that dream of obtaining asylum in the US has the entire...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaA new caravan from Honduras heads for the American Dream
It remains to be seen if Mexico will allow this new caravan to pass safely through their country as they did last...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta#JusticiaParaBerta: More than 900 days without environmental activist Berta Cáceres
2 and a half years after Honduran environmental activist Berta Cáceres was shot dead, her family are still fighting...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaHomo homini lupus est: trauma and child abuse in U.S. refugee policy
Terrified children kept in cages disturbed the world. And then, president Trump, on camera, resumed his cynical...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaFour walls won’t hold us: Honduran women are breaking free
We want freedom, not four walls. We see a future without violence and impunity. Without impunity, the violence could...
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Published in: 50.50How women are building feminist human security in the Americas
Across the region, women are forging alternative paths to real peace and security, rejecting militarisation and...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaHonduras, the country where even the police are fed up with electoral fraud and violence
In a country that lives from institutional crisis to institutional crisis since the coup d'état in 2009, the current...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta7 keys to understanding Honduras’ declining homicide rate
Due to a combination of factors, Honduras is on track to close out 2017 with a significantly lower homicide rate...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaA year after Berta Cáceres’ murder, protecting the planet is just as deadly
Just two weeks before the anniversary of Berta Cáceres’ bloody killing, community leader José Santos Sevilla died...