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  • Accessing Justice: Femicide and the Rule of Law in Latin America

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  July 17, 2020  //  By Annelise Gilbert, Beatriz García Nice, Olivia Soledad & Anya Prusa
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    “The pandemic is just making visible a reality that has been going on for decades,” said Claudia Calvin, Founder of Mujeres Construyendo (Women Building) and a member of Nosotras Tenemos Otros Datos (We Have Other Data). She spoke at a recent Wilson Center event on femicide and the rule of law in Latin America. The panelists discussed the longstanding roots of this issue and new barriers to protecting women and preventing violence during the pandemic in the launch event for a project examining gender-based violence in Latin America, co-hosted by the Brazil Institute, Latin America Program, Mexico Institute, and Maternal Health Initiative. “Violence against women and femicides are not new,” Calvin said. But what is new is the fact that the media and civil society are bringing this topic to our attention, she said.

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  • Pandemic of Violence: Protecting Women during COVID-19

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    Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  May 27, 2020  //  By Anya Prusa, Beatriz García Nice & Olivia Soledad
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    This article originally appeared on the Weekly Asado, a blog of the Wilson Center’s Latin American Program and Argentina Project.

    COVID-19 is having a profound impact on Latin American women. Gender-based violence increased drastically after governments imposed lockdowns, leaving policymakers and law enforcement scrambling to prevent attacks. Latin America was already one of the most dangerous regions for women, with the highest rate of sexual violence and some of the highest femicide numbers in the world. The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean registered 3,529 femicides in 2018, or one woman killed every two hours due to her gender. For many women living through the coronavirus pandemic in Latin America, the greater health risk might be staying home.

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  • The “Push” Factor: Central American Farmers, Free Trade, and Migration

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    April 17, 2019  //  By Kyla Peterson
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    The number of migrants traveling from Central American countries (particularly El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras) destined for the United States has rapidly increased in recent years. In 2018, 87 percent of Central American immigrants came from those three countries, which account for most of the migrants at the U.S. southern border. Their numbers will likely only increase considering the Trump administration’s plan to cut around $700 million in aid to these three countries. The absence of aid will reduce countries’ ability to confront the violence, crime, and government instability within their borders—which act as some of the more notorious drivers of the movement north.

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  • Green Conflict Minerals: Investigating Renewable Energy Supply Chains in Fragile States

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    Guest Contributor  //  September 17, 2018  //  By Clare Church
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    The shift to a low-carbon economy is not only underway, it is accelerating. Last year, Costa Rica generated more than 99 percent of its electricity using renewable sources;  Germany expanded its onshore wind power capacity by 5,300 MW, and in the United States, more than 62 percent of new power plants under construction will produce renewable energy. What does this rapid increase mean for the countries that supply the inputs required to build these new facilities—particularly those countries that are struggling with fragility or corruption?

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  • As Andean Glaciers Retreat, So Does Regional Security

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    Guest Contributor  //  September 11, 2018  //  By Kate Cullen
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    Last month, Bolivia filed a counterclaim against Chile in the International Court of Justice—the latest salvo in their battle over rights to the waters of the Silala River. The court will decide whether Silala is “an international watercourse”—thus granting water rights to Chilean mining operations—or simply an artificial diversion of Bolivian spring water by Chile. This legal case marks the latest chapter in Bolivia and Chile’s historically delicate relationship, which dates back to the War of the Pacific in the late 19th century.

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  • Another Deadly Year for Environmental Defenders, But Momentum Increases for Protecting Environmental Human Rights

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    Guest Contributor  //  March 15, 2018  //  By Bethany N. Bella
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    In 2017, four environmental activists were murdered every week on average—most of them in Latin America, and most of them targeted for protesting industries like logging or mining. These shocking numbers may finally start to taper off, if three new initiatives launched just this month are successful at protecting people’s right to a clean environment—and its defenders.

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  • Environmental Sustainability, Does It Make Dollars and Sense?

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    From the Wilson Center  //  June 14, 2017  //  By Sara Merken
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    While governments will play the central role in delivering the Sustainable Development Goals, they can’t do it without the private sector, said experts at the Wilson Center on April 12.

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  • 8 Rules of Political Demography That Help Forecast Tomorrow’s World

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    Guest Contributor  //  June 12, 2017  //  By Richard Cincotta
    In a world rapidly churning out unpredictable political shocks, intelligence analysts occasionally need to clear their heads of the daily barrage of newsworthy events and instead work with simple theories that discern the direction and speed of trends and help predict their outcomes. Political demography, the study of population age structures and their relationships to political trends and events, has helped some analysts predict geopolitical changes in a world that, from time to time, appears utterly chaotic.
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