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The U.S. Should Maintain Legal Pathways such as Temporary Protected Status for Migrants
The designation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) is an important legal pathway for migrants of select countries who are unable to safely return to their home countries due to different conditions ...
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LGBTIQ+ Rights and Resistance in Latin America: Six Voices from the Region
This special Pride Month episode brings together the voices of six LGBTIQ+ activists from across Latin America—Mexico, ...
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“Simultaneously juggling nine processes at once”: Colombia’s “Total Peace” plan and mounting security challenges - WOLA
Nearly three years into President Gustavo Petro’s term, his flagship “Total Peace” initiative is faltering. On this episode of the WOLA Podcast, Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli, WOLA’s Director for the Andes, ...
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El Salvador: Alto a la Criminalización de Personas Defensoras de Derechos Humanos y al Desmantelamiento del Estado de Derecho
Las organizaciones firmantes expresamos nuestra profunda preocupación ante el creciente uso del derecho penal sin las garantías del debido proceso, el acoso, estigmatización y la persecución que ejerc ...
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Derechos y resistencia LGBTIQ+ en Latinoamérica: seis voces de la región
Este episodio especial del Mes del Orgullo reúne las voces de seis activistas LGBTIQ+ de toda América Latina —México, ...
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El estado de los derechos de las personas trans en las Américas: reconocimiento, contradicciones, violencia y retrocesos
En los últimos años, la situación de los derechos de las personas trans en América se ha caracterizado por un patrón notable ...
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Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: El Salvador Renditions, Mass Deportation, Military Role - WOLA
THE FULL UPDATE: Controversies continue over renditions to El Salvador The numbers, as far as we can tell As far as we can tell, since March 15 the Trump administration has sent 252 Venezuelan and 36 ...
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Curtailing Civic Space: Tightening Restrictions on Civil Society in the Americas
Download the full report as a PDF here. Introduction The last few months have been marked by aggressive measures by numerous governments that aim to further restrict civic space in the Americas. In ...
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Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: Trump’s First Days
With this series of weekly updates, WOLA seeks to cover the most important developments at the U.S.-Mexico border. See past weekly updates here. This Update is the product of interviews and the review ...
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Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: Los Angeles and ICE, huge spending bill, migration in May - WOLA
CBP reports on May migrant encounters Data CBP reported a slight increase from April to May in the number of migrants its agents and officers encountered at the U.S.-Mexico border. Still, numbers ...
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¿Qué implica una segunda administración de Trump para América Latina?
Bajo una segunda administración de Trump, WOLA anticipa retrocesos significativos en las normas democráticas, el espacio cívico, la protección de los derechos humanos, la independencia judicial, las ...