L'Amérique Centrale

Sin Fronteras

susanncruz — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 19:32:58 -0800

Sin Fronteras is a community-based educational and advocacy organization concerned with violence exposure and unmet needs of youth in conflict with the law. We are particularly focused on serving the needs of vulnerable populations, such as immigrant, trafficked, and gang-involved youth in different systems (i.e., juvenile, criminal, foster-care, and detention settings) and have extensive experience working with these youth. We provide direct-services and advocate for the youth we serve.

Sin Fronteras

susanncruz — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 19:32:58 -0800

Violent Evictions at El Estor, Guatemala

Sameer Padania — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 06:41:43 -0700

The video, released by the pressure group Rights Action, shows how a Canadian mining company recently called in state prosecutors and armed law enforcement officers to move indigenous peoples off land it had bought from the Guatemalan government

Rights on the Line: Mexico/US Border

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:37:35 -0700

For more than a decade, the southern border of the U.S. has resembled a war zone. Aggressive, military-style actions by the Border Patrol have made human rights abuses everyday events in border communities. Alongside this official militarization, armed vigilante groups have harassed border crossers and communities, but their numbers were relatively limited until recently. In April 2005, a new group called the "Minuteman Project" became a national media darling when several hundred recruits gathered in Arizona to patrol the border.

Police Brutality in Tehran

peter.schamp — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:54:37 -0700

Police Beat Students at University of Jaffna in Sri Lanka

peter.schamp — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:50:35 -0700

Exploiting West Papua

engage.media — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:10:26 -0700

Forced evictions in Guatemala: whose land is it anyway?

Gavin Simpson — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0800

The villagers being forcibly removed here are indigenous Mayan Q’eqchi’ peoples, who claim this territory near Lake Izabal as part of their ancestral lands. They want to carry out arable farming, as their forefathers had done peacefully on these plantations until the 1960s.