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Locals from Asunción Mita, Guatemala recently voted against the development of mining activities in their municipality, in a referendum contested by a Canadian mining company that owns a gold mine.
While Russia and Ukraine’s war wages on, previous peace talk discussions didn’t appear to include women. Changing that can make a difference, research shows.
Often overlooked in the immigration debate are the contributions of migrants, such as how they helped organize workers in the 1990s.
Twenty-five years after the signing of a peace accord that ended a 36-year civil war, Guatemala is still struggling with violence and corruption.
Biden’s $4 billion plan to fight crime, corruption and poverty in Central America is massive. But aid can’t build viable democracies if ‘predatory elites’ won’t help their own people.
Children and families have been fleeing to the US in rising numbers for nearly a decade. So why is the current situation at the US-Mexico border being viewed as something new?
The low levels of familiarity with key historical events indicate that there are serious shortcomings in the development of national collective memory in South Africa.
A growing body of research suggests that investors care about human rights and consultation with Indigenous communities, and consider them important to the value of their investments.
From a global perspective, there was nothing unique about the recent raid on the U.S. Capitol. Both Republican and Democratic administrations have backed military coups around the world for decades.
Why a mining company’s quiet settlement of a slave labour case is big news.
Reports of rape, domestic abuse and murdered women are way up in Brazil, Mexico, Peru and beyond since the coronavirus. But Latin America has long been one of the most dangerous places to be a woman.
In The Meddler, Australian documentarians follow an unassuming mechanic in Guatemala City as he prowls the streets with a camera trying to capture footage of crimes and dead bodies.
Iraq, Guatemala and the autonomous region of Bougainville have all tried to demilitarise their police forces – with varying degrees of success.
US denies backing failed raid to remove Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro – but it has a long history of sponsoring private armies elsewhere.
Canadian leaders have desperately tried to preserve the country’s image of liberal humanitarianism at our border, but the reality is Canada’s immigration history is built upon exclusion.
The US is violating its own law governing treatment of refugees.
As the House mounts an impeachment investigation of President Trump, examples from Central and South America show that ousting an executive leader from office doesn’t always have the intended effect.
Canada is playing a role in the life-and-death struggle for migrant justice in the United States – from our foreign economic policies to the actions of our mining companies and domestic asylum laws.
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Associate Professor of Political Science, The Ohio State University
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Senior Lecturer in International Business, Birkbeck, University of London
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Associate Professor of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Arizona
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Merced
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Assistant Professor of Human Service Studies, Elon University
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Assistant Professor of Human Security, American University School of International Service
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Associate Professor of Politics and International Studies, University of Regina
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Associate Professor Human Rights & Human Diversity, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Profesor-Investigador, ECOSUR
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Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Lecturer in Volcanology, University of Hull
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Volcanologist, Lancaster University
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Director of the Refugee Law Initiative, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Senior Law Lecturer in Transitional Justice and Human Rights, Queen's University Belfast
