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Drought in the Americas: Equal insecurity?

The American media publishes dozens of articles everyday on what has been the worst drought in decades for the state of California. Photos of the changing Californian landscape have appeared in nearly every major news source. T...

by Taylor Stenberg

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Has The Gang Truce In El Salvador Failed?

Violent drug gangs have been confronting El Salvador with an enormous internal security problem for more than two decades; inhibiting development and prolonging poverty and structural violence. If one considers the 1992 peace a...

by Lea Atzinger

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El Salvador: Women Face Imprisonment If They Miscarry

Imagine that you are a woman in El Salvador and suffer a miscarriage, there is a chance that you may be jailed up to 50 years for aggravated homicide.

by Isabela Vrba

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How Gangs Have Become A Trojan Horse In El Salvador’s Security Forces

El Salvador seems to be replicating that mythical ploy of war known as the Trojan Horse. In Homer’s poem “The Odyssey”, he tells the story of how the Greek Achilles fakes the retreat of his army and leaves a wooden ho...

by Connectas .org

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A victory for women’s rights in El Salvador

El Salvador has been making several headlines for their harsh anti-abortion laws with imprisonments of women suffering miscarriages. However, it looks like the small Central American country has arrived at a turning point. On J...

by Isabela Vrba

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Drought in the Americas: Equal insecurity?

Has The Gang Truce In El Salvador Failed?

El Salvador: Women Face Imprisonment If They Miscarry

How Gangs Have Become A Trojan Horse In El Salvador’s Security Forces

A victory for women’s rights in El Salvador

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