"When you get trapped in the destruction, open the door to creation. "
Anais Nin, French writer,1903-1977
María Suárez Toro ESCRIBANA October 19, 2017 442 cases of requests for protection orders for gender violence under Law 54 have been filed since Hurricane María hit the island on September 20, 2017. Women activists are stepping forward in support of women in...
It’s like being totally lost in a dark forest with enormous twisted trees that are constantly moving and growing, blocking the way. Women mostly from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador are fleeing horrendous violence in their countries out of desperation and terror...
It is shocking. It is appalling. It is despicable. It is scary. But it is most terrifying to the millions of people who face threats to their lives with promises to deport them all, to build a wall, to block them from entering the fortress of the US. It was working...
April 20, 2012 The group of young American Indians stood at the back of the Colorado State Senate Chambers, listening intently as several legislators refused to vote for a resolution that acknowledged the brutal history of indigenous peoples in the United States as a...
The right-wing ARENA Party has introduced a bill that would increase [the] penalty [for abortion] to a prison sentence of 30 to 50 years—the same as aggravated homicide.
In a devastating blow to millions of children and their families, the US Supreme Court announced a decision on June 23, 2016 that effectively freezes DAPA (Deferred Action for Parents of Americans), and ties it up in court. This program would provide a legal path for...
