The future is (probably) female.
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Electoral violence has marred the run-up to the June 2 vote. But despite fears over personal safety, support for democracy endures.
The third and final debate of the three Mexican presidential candidates for the June 2 elections.
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Mexico will elect its first woman president on Sunday.
Kenyan special forces police arrive in Haiti to help the country fight its armed gangs.
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There is a long, and often ugly, history of foreign intervention in Haiti.
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Teachers described themselves as acting as ‘security guards’ and ‘police officers’.
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Children’s rights are often violated in times of war.
Prisoners at the Terrorism Confinement Centre, a prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, built to house 40,000 gang members convicted or detained.
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Governments across Latin America are resorting to draconian measures in an attempt to rein in surging gang violence.
Men who were detained under the state of emergency are transported in a cargo truck in Soyapango, El Salvador in October 2022 after President Nayib Bukele began a crackdown on gangs that suspended constitutional rights and threw one in every 100 people in jail.
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Ecuador is soon holding a referendum to decide whether to follow El Salvador’s controversial strategy to end drug trafficking.
The leader between the violence in Haiti, Jimmy Chérizier, speaking to the media in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 2021.
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Haiti is descending into anarchy, causing the gang leader behind the violence to emerge as the country’s most powerful leader.
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Latin America’s spike in violence is the result of systemic problems that have long gone unaddressed.
A former gang member in Cape Town, South Africa, shows off his tattoos.
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More than being the social problem they are often made out to be, gangs are an indication of larger problems present in their societies.
Jim Brown takes a break during a 1963 Cleveland Browns football game.
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The death of NFL great and Hollywood star Jim Brown renews questions about the role of modern-day athletes in political and social issues.
Tributes to Olivia Pratt-Korbel have come from across the country.
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Violence affects entire communities, even law-abiding residents.
Flowers are laid near the scene of a mass shooting during a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Ill.
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Since rap music emerged in mainstream culture in the late 1980s, politicians have derided its lyrics and imagery as violent. Over the years, rap has become an easy target to blame for violence.
In this episode, we discuss some of the reasons South Asians are reporting higher rates of mental health issues than any other group. Here a group of young South Asians at Besharam, a Toronto nightclub hosted by DJ Amita (pre-pandemic).
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The pressure of needing to be a model minority — successful, quiet, hardworking — can force people to internalize their mental anguish and ends up leaving gaps in our mental health services.
Children watch as police work behind a cordon where a young victim of a gang shooting lies dead on the ground.
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Findings show that in the face of marginalisation and social exclusion, youth in gangs think that they have no options except violence to prove that they are ‘real’ men in their communities.
A demonstration for peace in Buenaventura, Colombia, where a cartel turf war has left at least 30 people dead since the beginning of this year.
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A lethal turf war between drug traffickers has terrorized Buenaventura, Colombia for months. Now protesters are demanding the government’s help to protect people in this mostly Black city.
The first group of asylum-seekers allowed to cross from a migrant camp in Mexico into the United States following Biden’s repeal of the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy arrives to Brownsville, Texas, Feb. 25, 2021.
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Luck and tenacity paid off for some 15,000 migrants who may now pursue their asylum cases in the US But nearly 42,000 cases filed from Mexico under a Trump-era rule were already rejected.
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A study shows that some Cape Town gangsters choose to stand alone, preferring their independence to taking orders from a gang boss.
A demonstrator heads to an anti-violence protest in Chicago, which has struggled with gun violence for decades, July 7, 2018.
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Gun violence has killed hundreds of Americans, including kids, this summer. There are proven ways to bring peace to city streets, says an expert in violence prevention – but someone has to pay for it.
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Even after becoming an ‘ex’, former gang members must still negotiate gang associations and activities in the communities they remain in.