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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: ourEconomyHow a communist mayor is defeating privatisation in Chile
The municipality of Recoleta has created an open university, public housing projects and popular pharmacies.
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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: 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: 50.50We are cheap labour to fight COVID-19
I was put on the frontline against the coronavirus. I’m a medical resident. We have no tests, protection or...
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Published in: openMovementsThe Covid-19 pandemic reveals and exacerbates the crisis of care
Care, not the market, is the central organizing axis of community life. The inability of states and governments to...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionWe need to ramp up global public spending to fight COVID-19
The pandemic has shown us that global solidarity is not a nice idea – it is a necessity.
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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: 50.50Alarm as 2 billion people have parliaments shut or limited by COVID-19
Democracy groups warn of 'significant risks' to rights around the world as a growing number of parliaments shut down...
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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...