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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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Halfway to the U.S.: A Report from Honduras on Migration
Full report Introduction Over 10 days in late April and early May 2023, a team of researchers from the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) visited Honduras to examine the challenges of migration ...
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Mexico's Crackdown on Migration at its Southern Border - WOLA
Key Findings Mexico dramatically intensified its migration enforcement after the Trump administration threatened to impose tariffs on Mexican goods in June 2019. As a result of this crackdown, Mexican ...
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Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: a quiet border, mass deportation, military flights - WOLA
THE FULL UPDATE: An already quiet border gets quieter “In the past seven days, U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended 4,577 individuals attempting to enter the country illegally, a significant 55% ...
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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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Section IV – Recommendations – Abuses at the U.S.- Mexico Border: How To Address Failures and Protect Rights - WOLA
WOLA and the Kino Border Initiative have documented many examples of abusive or improper conduct committed by U.S. border authorities. We have also identified glaring flaws in the accountability ...