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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe War on Drugs has failed. But a profit-driven legal market is not the answer
With big business eyeing up cannabis as a future market, it is essential that legalisation supports racial and...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaCOVID-19 crisis: Attacks on environmental defenders continue in Latin America
Communities protect ecosystems that provide fundamental services and prevent the transmission of zoonotic viruses....
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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: 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.