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El Salvador’s Abortion Ban Jails Women for Miscarriages and Stillbirths – Now One Woman’s Family Seeks International Justice
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On the outskirts of some small Indigenous communities in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, a…
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An international team of researchers led by Oxford Brookes University shows that black howler monkeys…
Latina Mothers, Often Essential Workers, Report COVID-19 Took Toll
More than half of Latina mothers surveyed in Yolo and Sacramento counties reported making economic…
Thousands of Brazilians Who Won Elections as Black Candidates in 2020 Previously Ran for Office as White
Brazil is undergoing a strange racial reckoning after bombshell revelations that thousands of veteran politicians…
Fires, Flooding Before Settlement May Have Formed the Amazon’s Rare Patches of Fertility
Phosphorous, calcium and charcoal in spotty patches of fertile soil in the Amazon rainforest suggest…
Cuba Cracks Down on Artists Who Demanded Creative Freedoms After ‘Unprecedented’ Government Negotiations
Cuban artists and intellectuals want more rights – and, in an unusual show of dissent,…
Revealed: How Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel Has Created a Global Network to Rule the Fentanyl Trade
A collaboration with 24 international media outlets across 18 countries, and coordinated by Forbidden Stories,…
‘They’re Culpable’: the Countries Supplying the Guns That Kill Mexico’s Journalists
Many of the weapons used in the murders of 119 journalists were imported – and…
