From repression to migration: The case of Rufo Chacón
By Ezequiel Monsalve |
Rufo Chacón, in the company of his mother, is preparing to travel to Spain, where he will get the surgical intervention needed to improve his condition.
Read more 4 Key Strategies to Reducing Sexual Violence Against Children
By Aaron Alfredo Acosta, Juan Sebastián Hernández Moreno |
With the launch of the Alianza initiative, there is hope for a comprehensive change in sexual violence against children. But as always, effective implementation of such an ambitious program will undoubtedly have many challenges.
Read more Losing Ground: The Sixth Extinction and Development
By Joyce Tan, Sebastián Rojas |
The changes we have triggered on Earth shatter the distance and sense of remoteness that have governed our relationship with other species and the environment. This is a call to once again recognize our profound interdependence with our environment and protect it—if not for nature’s sake, then for our own.
Read more Waiting to Advertise: Children and Junk Food
By Valentina Rozo |
The strategy, then, is simple: companies assure themselves a client for life, without the person even knowing they're being sold something.
Read more Sentences for drug traffickers from South America’s Pacific
By David Filomena |
The harshest sentences are served by transporters who, in most cases, are dispensable actors in the value chain of narco-trafficking, and who are committing the crimes because of the marginalized and impoverished conditions in which they live.
Read more The Sierra, Displaced
By Ana María Ramírez |
I thought about their story, the people and the situations they must have faced. I honored that by feeling the strength of the land and that the stone had witnessed the same. –Tiokasin, Lakota leader
Read more Prisons: What Force Can’t Do
By Juan Sebastián Hernández Moreno |
“Heavy-handed” policies on crime in many countries in the Americas have not only brought prisons to crises around the continent, but have also failed to reduce crime and recidivism. A more humane penitentiary system, not one of terror, seems to be the solution that our continent needs.
Read more Two fights in one: feminism and environmentalism
By Vanessa Daza, Ariana Athena Lippi |
Only in as much as we coordinate the efforts will we be able to erradicate gender inequality and encounter a solution to the ecological crisis that we are experiencing.
Read more The “Lock Him Up” Paradox
By Meghan Morris |
What if we treated criminal prosecution and sentencing as a question of how to rebuild society?
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