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Community Organizing in Peru Tackles Hunger in Pandemic

“The already existing poverty was aggravated by the pandemic. We saw people getting desperate, they had nothing to eat…”

Eta & Iota destroyed their communities and forced dozens of indigenous people to migrate to where people don’t speak their language.

The ruling comes after years of advocacy by survivors & supporters. The women weren’t able to file criminal complaints until 2011.

Maldonado is the second journalist killed in Tijuana in less than a week. On January 17, photojournalist Margarito Martínez was shot dead.

A month ago Moises Davila thought he would die in front of his children. He was about to cross the Rio Grande to touch US soil…

On Sunday, the Honduran parliament, split into two separate blocs, held two separate ceremonies to ratify their new Congressional head.

Gabriel Boric: “Today a new chapter in our democratic history begins. We are not starting from zero, we know that there is a history…”

Feminist & LGBTQ+ rights advocates took to the streets of Juárez denouncing rising femicides & the recent killing of a same-sex couple.

Carniel told CPJ that, while hitting him, the man said, “This is so you learn not to denounce things, say bad things about others…

“No formal response has been received…” the secretary general reported to the OAS Permanent Council on Wednesday.