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 [...]
Brazil: Nature’s revenge brings out the best in Brazilians
By Edy Bestle LatinaLista.net SAO PAULO, BRAZIL — People have been hearing and seeing things about the floods in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. This natural accident or Nature´s revenge caught us all by surprise. Although heavy rains are expected from January to March every year, it seems that we are never ready for [...]
Bolivia: Christmas at The House of Dreams
By Angie Washington LatinaLista COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA — They hear our truck roll up. Even before we can knock on the door the children are calling out our names and peeking through the gate to get a glimpse of what we have brought. It is Christmas Eve. This is the first year that we have been [...]
One group of First Responders to Haiti earthquake victims still fighting to save lives one year later
LatinaLista — It will be one year on January 12, 2011 that a 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti and over 230,000 people lost their lives. At the time, because of the poor infrastructure that exists in the country, everyone outside of Haiti depended on social media — blogs, Twitter, Facebook — to get updates on [...]
