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Internship Opportunity: Online Advocacy & Outreach Intern

POSITION:            YMCA Digital Skills Youth Internship Program Full-time, 20 week paid internship (late February to mid-July 2012) BACKGROUND: The… Read More »

Laureates Call for Release of Iranian Opposition Leaders

February 14 marks the one-year anniversary of the house arrest of the presidential rivals of Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad.  Shirin… Read More »

Leaving Guatemala: Jody Williams

OMG, it’s the last day of January 2012 I’m sitting at the airport in Guatemala waiting for the flight to… Read More »

Indigenous women: Multiple layers of victimization – Jody Williams

Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Laureate Monday, January 23 — Chilpancingo, Guerrero We were on the road by about 5:30 am. … Read More »

Paradise lost: Searching for gold at the end of the Guatemalan rainbow – W5 CTV, Paula Todd

In 2010 journalist Paula Todd did a four part series on Canadian mining companies in Guatemala: W5: Paradise Lost, part… Read More »

Dictator in the dock: Guatemala

Pamela Yates, Filmmaker & Co-founder of Skylight Pictures The culmination of decades of work by the victims and survivors of… Read More »

Article: In Honduras, a Mess Made in the US – New York Times, Dana Frank

Link to full Opinion Editorial in the New York Times By DANA FRANK SANTA CRUZ, Calif. IT’S time to acknowledge… Read More »

Impunity is a blank cheque: Jody Williams

ON THE PLANE TO HONDURAS… Where did all these days go?  My visit to Atenco was only five days ago… Read More »

Nobel Women’s Initiative returns to Atenco, Mexico

Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Laureate 20 January 2012 – My First Day The story of Atenco, a small town in… Read More »

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