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- In Guatemala, Chortí women are trying to overcome adversity through enterpriseWomen from the main Indigenous ethnic group in Chiquimula, Guatemala, one of the country’s poorest departments, from which many people migrate, are taking on entrepreneurial and leadership roles in addition to their traditional roles in the home. [...]
- Laura Baena: “In this patriarchal society, men are seen as heroes and women as bad mothers”The coronavirus crisis has highlighted a crisis of care around the world, not only for the very young, but also for the old. It is one of the great challenges we have to approach from an international angle, without letting another day go [...]
- After Tazreen Fashions and Rana Plaza, Covid-19 once again exposes the human cost of fast fashionMany Bangladeshi workers are more afraid of dying of hunger than they are of dying from Covid-19.
- On the banks of Thailand’s Mun River, villages are struggling to survive in the shadow of the damsThe construction of the Rasi Salai dam across the Mun River in the mid-1990s caused the flooding of 16,000 hectares of land and brought an abrupt end to a three-century-old way of life. Today, thousands of families are still fighting for [...]
- Bernard Duterme: “The environmental movement must be urgently decolonised”“Sensitivity to the currently unfolding climate and environmental crisis is unequally distributed. Those who are directly affected are not always those who are most concerned. The populations most exposed to the effects of environmental [...]
- From child pregnancy to childbirth: when a pregnant girl’s only option is the path set out for her by the religious lobbyEvery week, eleven girls aged 10 to 14 enter a delivery room in Paraguay. Every hour, two teenage girls aged 15 to 19 do the same. Paraguay has the highest child pregnancy rate in the Southern Cone. In 2018, 589 births were registered to [...]