By Judith Browne-Dianis LatinaLista — Judith Browne-Dianis is co-director of the Advancement Project. The Advancement Project is a policy, communications and legal action group committed to racial justice. It was founded by a team of veteran civil rights lawyers…
LatinaLista — Amnesty International just released a new report on an issue that Latina Lista has been covering a lot lately — immigrant detention. The report, Jailed without Justice, underscores just how broken is the nation’s immigration system. In the…
LatinaLista — The trouble with a broken immigration system is that it’s easy for people to fall through the cracks. And the trouble with so many stories about this broken immigration system flooding mainstream media is that it’s too…
LatinaLista — People in the South Texas region, affectionately known as the Valley, have historically been ignored by the state of Texas and Washington. It wasn’t until Hillary Clinton singled out the Valley during her failed presidential campaign that…
LatinaLista — Violence against women is a worldwide phenomenon that pits abused women against society and their respective judicial systems. It’s only through men and women working together to create solutions can long-lasting change occur and put a halt…
by Jennifer Barreto-Leyva LatinaLista VENEZUELA: We dont know who the perpetrarors were, we still are thinking and trying to figure out what happened here. This been the most horrific thing someone can experience ever!!!!! Hours after living through every…
LatinaLista — The violence along the U.S.-Mexico border is unprecedented, to say the least. To think that it will not cross the border into the United States as the Mexican attorney general believes is delusional thinking and disturbing since…
LatinaLista — Last week, Mexican diplomats in North Texas were among the first of U.S.-based Mexican consulates to sign “accords” with the U.S. that creates clear guidelines on how the United States should deport children and women and those…
LatinaLista — Today’s swearing-in of Eric Holder Jr. as the nation’s newest Attorney General has been as anticipated among immigration lawyers and families of immigrants detained in detention facilities as was Obama’s own Inauguration Day. Vice president Joseph Biden…
LatinaLista — Shirin Ebadi is a name that most people don’t know but for the people of Iran for whom this human rights activist, lawyer and first Muslim woman Nobel laureate has defended, she is very well known. Iranian…
LatinaLista — Did you know that calendars have pretty much been around since the dawn of humanity – give or take a few thousand years. The start of any new year without one is like a bad omen or…
LatinaLista — The big question for many who live along the U.S.-Mexico border is whether or not in a few weeks the Obama administration will halt any further construction on the border wall. For someone who campaigned on taking…
LatinaLista — In yet another example of how the internet can make history come alive for us is the launch of a new database that contains the records of a period of time in our nation’s history that most…
LatinaLista — Today is the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This year’s theme is “Dignity and justice for all of us.” Cartoonist Jerry Robinson’s interpretation of Human Rights is part of the…
LatinaLista — In 1968, ten days before the start of the Olympic games in Mexico City, several hundred students were slaughtered during a peaceful protest they had been staging for three months against the government’s stifling rule. Mexican student…
LatinaLista — Last week, the Center for Public Policy Priorities released the most in-depth study on the attitude of the U.S. federal government towards undocumented children who are caught illegally entering the country without their parents. The report, A…
LatinaLista — November 25, 2008 is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The United Nations Development Fund for Women or UNIFEM is spearheading a campaign to raise awareness of this deadly and prevalent act against women…
LatinaLista — Almudena Carracedo, a budding LA-based filmmaker, happened to catch a news item in her local paper about five years ago. It was a story about the sweatshops in Los Angeles, the west coast fashion center of the…
LatinaLista — Gardasil, a vaccine that protects against the sexually transmitted virus genital human papillomavirus (HPV), is being hailed by many throughout the world as a cancer breakthrough. The vaccine helps in the prevention of cervical cancer, the world’s…
LatinaLista — In the new multimedia report released by the United Nation’s Development Fund for Women, Progress of the World’s Women 2008/2009: Who Answers to Women – Gender and Accountability, the authors found that while women have made great…
LatinaLista — The story of the largest immigration raid in history that happened at Postville, Iowa would seem like a “has-been” story regurgitated ad nauseam, but there’s a second part to it that is proving to be more disturbing…
LatinaLista — Whoever coined the old saying “A picture is worth a thousand words” never imagined a haunting photo exhibit as the one titled Ausencias. Otherwise, the saying would have been “A picture is worth a thousand words unsaid…
LatinaLista — On December 10, 2008, the world will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It’s especially poignant that after 60 years human rights are under assault in all corners of the world, just…
LatinaLista — This week, we learned from a Justice Department report that the White House interfered in the hiring of immigration judges by politicizing the hires. In other words, if the candidates met the conservative criteria or were recommended…
LatinaLista — Women helping women. It’s not a new concept and one that is practiced on a daily basis in every neighborhood around the world. Yet, it’s not as often that women from around the world come together to…
