América Latina y el Caribe promotores de derechos humanos y periodistas pueden no ser conscientes de una poderosa herramienta para frenar la impunidad entre los militares y policías que reciben...
INTRODUCTION Latin American and Caribbean human rights promoters and journalists may be unaware of a powerful tool to curb impunity among military and police that receive U.S. assistance: the “Leahy...
Cuba has developed an integrated, countrywide civil defense system that has succeeded in preventing widespread loss of life from natural disasters, especially the recurrent hurricanes that batter the...
Emergency medicine and public health officials from the U.S. Southeast and Gulf Coast made up the latest CIP delegation to Cuba in May to look at the island’s response to natural disasters,...
As part of its ongoing work on developing better approaches to support security and justice engagements in fragile states, INCAF commissioned a study of security and justice programming in Burundi...
By Kent Paterson History has not been kind to the indigenous Raramuri people of the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. Pushed to remote mountains of a harsh land by Spanish and mestizo colonists,...
By Elizabeth Newhouse Hurricane Irene led the news in August 2011—the deadliest year for the giant storms in the United States since 2008. It killed 45 people and caused at least $7 billion in...
By Adam Isacson, Lisa Haugaard, Jennifer Johnson The Latin America Working Group, the Center for International Policy and the Washington Office on Latin America release a new report on the Colombian...
Posted on: 15/02/2011 by Kent Paterson February's freezing fury has left a path of crumpled crops, pummeled harvests and dashed dreams in the countryside of northern Mexico. Hardest hit was the...
Along Avenue John Brown in Port-au-Prince, freshly painted graffiti reads aba seleksyon! - down with the undemocratic selection process. It is a key message in a visual protest against the failure of...