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Published in: democraciaAbiertaNew York City’s movement networks: resilience, reworking, and resistance in a time of distancing and brutality
The capitalist and neo liberal nature of New York City has meant COVID-19 has hit the city’s working class very...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaBolsonaro's maneuvers amid a pandemic: strategy or desperation?
Days after dismissing his level-headed Minister of Health amid the pandemic, the president forces the resignation of...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaCovid-19 and the injustice of life in the favelas and urban peripheries in Rio de Janeiro
“Once more, the population of the slums and urban peripheries are subjected to intersecting types of violence that,...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationCOVID-19 sweeping through US immigrant farmworker and meatpacker ranks
“We work shoulder to shoulder. We’re very close to each other…. I’ve had a fever and flu symptoms, but I take...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe Cuban lesson for happiness
If Cubans had left happiness to chance, then the difficulties and dilapidation around them would leave happiness to...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaNicaragua: two years of impunity
The civic and social demonstrations that began in April 2018 were intensely repressed, causing multiple human rights...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationMexico: Human rights defenders at the forefront of the COVID19 crisis
Human rights defenders in Mexico are simultaneously faced with two emergencies: health and human rights. Español
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe danger of being transgender in Latin America in times of quarantine
The measures implemented in Panama, Peru and Colombia have subjected LGBTI people to harassment. Also, they do not...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaCOVID-19: Brazil implements basic income policy following massive civil society campaign
Tens of millions of Brazilians have begun receiving basic income payments aimed at addressing the economic impact of...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaPandemic and the Brazilian dialectics of barbarity
In Brazil, barbarism is represented by reactionism, neo-Pentecostal fanaticism, anti-scientism, necropolitics and...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaHow Brazilian favela journalists are raising awareness about COVID-19
On April 8, six deaths were confirmed in the favelas as a result of COVID-19. Concerned with the local coverage,...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaMigrants' return to Venezuela becomes a nightmare
Migrants who have been forced to return to Venezuela because of the COVID-19 crisis risk human rights abuses as the...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaAn anti-Semitic wave may hit the world in the aftermath of the pandemic
Like a virus, ten different anti-Semitic conspiracy theories have proliferated on the internet. Español Português
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaIndigenous group wins unprecedented right of reply to Bolsonaro’s racist invective
A federal judge in Brazil has ordered government websites to post a letter from the Kinja indigenous people for 30...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationDisplaced women and girls in Latin America threatened by COVID-19
There is an urgent need for rights-based health policies to protect the health and well-being of this exceptionally...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaIndigenous migrant women from Venezuela: extremely vulnerable to COVID-19
The border closure caused by the pandemic impacts Venezuela’s indigenous migrants particularly harshly. And the...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaFighting the virus of misinformation in times of pandemic
The public must be careful not to become a carrier of false information itself . Português, Español
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionQuarantine in Venezuela: the war against society by other means
The response of the Chavista state to Covid-19 goes no further than repeating its authoritarian patterns of...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionHow is Venezuela when COVID-19 is about to hit hard?
Amid political deadlock and ongoing humanitarian and human rights crisis, and facing an increased hassle from the...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionCovid-19: Why is it so important to protect indigenous territories?
In the face of the rapid advance of the Covid-19 pandemic around the world, it is worth asking who are among the...