LatinaLista — As the nation held parades in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. yesterday and paid homage to his legacy, it was somewhat ironic that a group of dairy workers are battling for basic rights like getting lunch and water breaks, drinking clean water and getting paid what they’re owed. The owners of [...]
New report spotlights the plight of migrant women
LatinaLista — From June 4-5, 2010 in Bucharest, Romania, women from around the world met to discuss the human rights of one class of women who have no voice in how they are treated — migrant women. The result of that conference, coordinated by the Europe-based Globalizing Gender Equality and Social Justice organization, otherwise known [...]
Global campaign underway to fight human trafficking
LatinaLista.net — January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Yesterday, January 11, was Human Trafficking Awareness Day. It’s reported that 27 million people worldwide are enslaved today. Whether it’s prostituting children and women or forcing people to do domestic chores or provide cheap factory labor, enslaving people still lives on as an underworld [...]
Deported DREAMer Saad Nabeel finds hostility and threats in native country because he only knows English
LatinaLista — In the last weeks before the DREAM Act was defeated in the Senate, more and more undocumented students were “coming out” to reveal their citizenship status. Yet, as a New York Times article reported, these students were spared from being deported. Saad Nabeel “In a world of limited resources, our time is better [...]
Honduras: As Human Rights Violations Go Unpunished, “Feminists in Resistance” Fight for Justice
By Silvia Viñas LatinaLista HONDURAS — On June 28, 2009, the democratically elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, was ousted through a coup d’état. The Americas Policy Program reports that just two months after the coup “over 400 cases of violations of the human rights of women were registered.” The report goes on to declare, [...]
Freelance reporter fundraising money to cover trial of policemen accused in cover-up of immigrant’s death
LatinaLista.net — The beating death case of undocumented Mexican immigrant Luis Eduardo Ramírez Zavala at the hands of four white teens in Shenandoah, PA probably has the distinction of being in court more times than any other attack on unarmed undocumented immigrants in this country. Regular readers of Latina Lista will recall that back in [...]
