27Oct2015 | Lawsuit Against US Government Seeks 3rd Gender Option on Passports The Associated Press A Colorado resident denied a passport for refusing to identify as either male or female on the application form has sued the federal government to try to force the United States to join a handful of other countries that allow people to get travel documents without picking a gender. |
27Oct2015 | Hurricane Patricia Gives the Mexican President a Rare Chance to Look Good VICE News The president's unusually buoyant tone this week reflected the accolades his government received for rapidly mobilizing soldiers and civil protection agencies, opening shelters and evacuating thousands from coastal areas. |
26Oct2015 | Inside the 'Pure Hell' of Honduras's Rising Tide of Domestic Violence PBS NewsHour In Honduras, poverty, gang violence and corruption are fueling a domestic-violence epidemic in the Central American country where on average, a woman is murdered every 13 hours. |
26Oct2015 | Mexican Farmers Accuse Mining Companies of Shady Tactics in Chiapas Truthout An official evaluation published by Mexico's own Environment and Natural Resources Ministry admitted that a mining project in Los Cacaos threatens a region of high biodiversity and ecological importance, but the ministry nevertheless signed off on the project. |
26Oct2015 | Paper Promises, Daily Impunity: Mexico's Torture Epidemic Continues Amnesty International Mexico’s torture epidemic has reached catastrophic new levels with reports of asphyxiation, rape, electric shocks and beatings more than doubling in the last year, said Amnesty International in a new report. |
26Oct2015 | Conservationists and Others Team Up to Save Mexico's Jaguar Frontera NorteSur In twists and turns, efforts are mounting to protect the Americas’ biggest wild cat. A Mexican initiative unites non-governmental and governmental organizations in a new and “ambitious†program aimed at saving an emblematic creature. |
26Oct2015 | First World Indigenous Games Gets Off to Rocky Start CRIEnglish The first-ever World Indigenous Games are underway in Brazil. However, the competition among the athletes is already being overshadowed by demonstrations against the embattled government of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. |
26Oct2015 | California's Drought Is Hitting Indigenous Workers from Mexico Hard PRI's The World The Mixtecas, an indigenous group from southern Mexico that’s increasingly become part of California’s farmworker labor force, often working the lowest-paying jobs in US fields, have been hit particularly hard by California’s drought. |
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