by Jiaqui Jiang | Jun 9, 2022 | University of California, San Diego
In June 2021, Argentina passed a new bill setting a 1% quota for transgender people working in the public sector. As a late-comer democracy, Argentina was the first country in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage, and has been even more successful than the...
by Sara Jimena Méndez Bautista | Jun 8, 2022 | Koç University
Even though Colombia has fairly well-developed legal and institutional provisions to accommodate its indigenous citizens, there has to be a real and effective commitment from the government in order to fulfil the historically forgotten necessities of the indigenous...
by Angie Veliz | Jun 8, 2022 | University of California, San Diego
The current state of Guatemalan politics strikes fear in its citizens and foreign policy analysts about the decline of democracy in the country, but first, it is important to understand that these issues began over 60 years ago when the U.S. instituted a coup on...
by Madeline Austin | Jun 5, 2022 | University of California, San Diego
Femicide is broadly defined by the World Health Organization as the intentional killing of women because they are women. Mexico has been facing a femicide crisis since at least 1993. Since the crisis first gained international attention three decades ago, the rate of...
by Kevin Cregan | Apr 29, 2022 | University of Georgia
The Amazon Rainforest: a lush jungle that more closely resembles a single, living, breathing organism rather than a collection of individual greenery. Perhaps the center-right leaders of the West have missed the forest for the trees; or rather, Brazil for its populist...
