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Anti-Dam Resistance Faces Death and Detention in Guerrero, Mexico

State-sponsored violence against anti-dam movement leaves a trail of blood and arbitrary arrests. […]
Colombia

Colombia: Extractivist Pax vs. Peace with Social and Environmental Justice

The conflict between the extractivist pax and peace with social and environmental justice is sharp. […]
International

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Brazil

How Brazil’s Sex Workers Have Been Organized and Politically Effective for 30 Years

In Brazil, sex work remains politically and socially contentious. But thanks to a staunch sex worker movement in the country, the people who actually do the work have made themselves key contributors to the debate. […]
Honduras

‘There Is No Democracy Here’: Corruption Rigs Honduran Politics for the Powerful

Honduras’s elections debacle is just the face of a failed democracy in urgent need of transformation to close a long crisis brought on by the 2009 U.S.-backed coup. […]

Colombia: Extractivist Pax vs. Peace with Social and Environmental Justice