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Colombia

Colombia’s military ceasefire: One step closer to peace?

In a fifteen-minute long speech delivered on Tuesday evening, President Juan Manuel Santos announced that Colombia’s Armed Forces shall stop their bombing operations against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) f...
by Leonardo Goi
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Human Rights

Mexico’s Growing Human Trafficking Scene

In one Mexican farm alone, Bioparques de Occidente in Jalisco (BO), more than 250 workers were rescued from slavery circumstances.
by Carlos Arturo
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Asia

Top 10 elections and campaign stories of 2014

1) Rise of the #ElectionDaySelfie One of the not so surprising phenomena that featured around election time in many countries was the taking and uploading of ‘Election Day’ selfies to social media pages. Instagram and Twi...
by Mayda Margarita De La Fuente
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Colombia

The dangerous charm of forgiveness

Colombian General Dario Rubén Alzate was captured by the FARC, the largest Colombian guerrilla group in a small village in the north of the country on Sunday 16 November.
by Leonardo Goi
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Educating Women

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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Colombia

Colombia’s “citizen portfolio” program could infringe privacy rights (and more)

Under the “Live Digital” initiative, Colombian Minister of Information and Communication Technologies Diego Molano is pushing a policy program under which the government will bestow upon each citizen a “digital portfo...
by Lully Posada
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Bolivia

Bolivia’s New Child Labor Law: A Violation of Human Rights

Child labor is a dangerous, exploitative practice constituting a violation of human rights, which many nations have tried to eradicate. Yet Bolivia—a country that has more than 500,000 children working to supplement the famil...
by Nora Turriago
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Latin America
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Let Colombia End Its Civil War

Colombia has been the host of some of the most extreme and brutal violence in Latin America’s history. The country’s half-century long conflict has taken the lives of almost a quarter million women, men, and children, and d...
by Global Voices
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Economy
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Meet Jose Mujica: The World’s “Poorest” President

In November 2013, following another year of widespread political disillusionment, one man stood out in the international political arena, attracting increasing interest from the people across the world. His name is Jose “Pepe...
by Mauro Anastasio
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