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Human Rights, Open Letters, Police Violence An Open Letter on the Killing of Michael Angel Ruiz To the Phoenix Police Department, I am a reporter with Raise the Voices, an advocacy journalism organization. We have been looking into the case of Michael Angel Ruiz, a 44 year old man who

Chile’s Congress has agreed to postpone the constitutional referendum to October 25 to give the country time to deal with the COVID-19 crisis. To give you an inside view on what’s happening in Chile, we have interviewed Nacho Bustamante, a Law student in Chile. During June, he spoke

Detention Centers, Refugees Immigrant Children Held Illegally in US Hotels Immigrant Children Held Illegally in US Hotels On July 22, the Associated Press (AP) reported that the Trump Administration is detaining immigrant children in three Hampton Inn & Suite Hotels, particularly in El Paso and McAllen, Texas and Phoenix, Arizona.

Iran, Iraq The Missing Victims of Iraq’s Militias Embed from Getty Images When the US killed Iranian General Quasem Soleimani in an airstrike in Iraq at the start of this year, most press coverage focused on the resulting rise in tensions and potential repercussion for US-Iranian relations. Yet General

Human Rights, Prison Reform COVID-19 and Mass Incarceration: How a Pandemic Normalized Solitary Confinement in the U.S. THE BIG PICTURE: As COVID-19 escalates, prisons across the United States are resorting to solitary confinement as a means of containing the virus. Within weeks, the number of isolated inmates surged from

Uncategorized The “Ku Klux Klan”-Like Threat to Chile’s Mapuche People Mapuexpress On the night of August 1, an organized group of people with sticks, stones, and torches gathered in the central square of the southern city of Curacautín (about 600 km south of Santiago) aiming to end the

Uncategorized Constitutional Reform in Chile and the Participation of Indigenous Peoples Mapuexpress The Chilean Constitutional Convention would be the first, among all the continent’s constituent assemblies, to include direct representatives of the nine Indigenous Peoples recognized in Chile’s 1993 Indigenous Law 19,253. As a result of large

Human Rights, Iran, Women's Rights Honor Killings and the Struggle for Women’s Rights in Iran Written by H. S. A flower faded while blooming: Romina, a 14 year old Iranian girl, was beheaded by her father with a farming sickle.                                    He thought Romina had ashamed the family