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Global Drug Policy: “Countries are being freed up to actually speak their minds”
For the second year in a row, what had been an uneventful, consensus-driven United Nations meeting on drug policy ...
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Venezuela’s New NGO Law and U.S. Funding Freeze Are a Death Blow to the Country’s Civil Society
Venezuela enacted a regressive law tightening state control over non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Popularly referred to ...
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Propelling Buenaventura’s Urban Peace
During the last weekend of March, violence engulfed Buenaventura, claiming several lives in Colombia’s most important port ...
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Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: The Alien Enemies Act, military buildup, border wall
With this series of weekly updates, WOLA seeks to cover the most important developments at the U.S.-Mexico border. See ...
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Mass Incarceration and Democratic Deterioration: Three Years of the State of Exception in El Salvador
On March 27, 2022, at the request of President Nayib Bukele, the Legislative Assembly passed a state of exception, limiting ...
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The Alien Enemies Act
President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 for only the fourth time in U.S. history. The target, this time, ...
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10 international organizations submit amicus brief in case of imprisoned Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora Marroquín
A group of 10 international organizations submitted an amicus curiae brief to Guatemala’s Supreme Court in the case of ...
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Feminist Community Journalism Builds Hope”: How Women Communicators in Guatemala and Colombia Are Defending Human Rights
This Women’s Month, WOLA launched a special podcast series to amplify feminist voices fighting for human rights in Latin America. Our second episode was our first-ever Spanish-language episode. Our ...
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WOLA U.S.-Mexico Border Updates: 2025 Index
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