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WATCH: Latinos Fight Back in Arizona
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Over the last year, the situation in Arizona has become dire for many Latinos living in the South Western state. From SB 1070 to the brutal vigilante murder of little Brisenia Flores and her father, there have been so...
Norteño Group Named Immigrants’ Rights Ambassadors
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The popular norteño music band El Gigante de America has been named Immigrants’ Rights Ambassadors by Mexico’s National Commission on Human Rights (CNDH).
According to En Breve, the successful band was honored for its pro-immigrant rights position beyond Mexico’s...
Mexican Women's Rights Crusader Susana Chavez Murdered
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Mexican womens rights activist Susana Chavez tirelessly fought to bring attention to the decade's long murder of women occurring in Ciudad Juarez. She was an active member of May Our Daughters Return Home, a local group...
Gael Garcia Bernal Partners with Amnesty International for Film Series on Immigration
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Gael García Bernal has partnered up with Amnesty International to produce and direct a series of four documentary films chronicling the plight of the immigrant experience called, The Invisibles.
“We made ...
WATCH: Demi Lovato's Anti-Bullying Campaign
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Demi Lovato recorded a video message for all the youth out there who may be suffering at the hands of bullies. Over the last few weeks, five teenagers have committed suicide because they were being bullied. Lovato has always felt that this issue was important, so she took a moment to let other young people know about the Pacer's kids against bullying...
U.S. Apologizes for Experimenting with STD's in Guatemala
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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius issued an apology today for a series of secret public health experiments conducted in Guatemala in the 1940s.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also signed the joint statement: "The sexually transmitted disease inoculation study conducted from 1946-1948 in Guatemala was clearly...
Hot Headlines: Arizona Gov. Asks for Military Support to Patrol Border, Floods Kill Hundreds in Brazil and more
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Heavy Rains Cause Fatal Flooding in Brazil
24 hours of torrential downpours have left almost a hundred people dead in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Most of the fatalities have been caused by mudslides in the favelas (or shantytowns) that surround Brazil's second...
Andy Garcia, Gloria Estefan & Shakira Speak Out in Support of Las Damas de Blanco
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A group of mothers, wives and daughters who regularly protest in the streets of Cuba for political prisoners were recently subject to brutal suppression by the authorities and heckled by supporters of the Castro dictatorship. During the protests on March 18, Cuban police dragged the women by their hair and onto a bus, arresting around 30 protesters, among them older women,...
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