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Prostitution or the freedom of choice

We need to face the human rights issues involved in prostitution. Prostitution is often reduced as an issue of sex labour or it is associated to sexual freedom. However, a broader approach illuminates that prostitution is the result of violence against women.     Mabel Encinas   ‘Sex work’ is […]

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The truth of the deaths

The Charlie Hebdo massacre brought back memories of when, in the late 80s, Castaño’s paramilitaries shot down ‘JUCO’ militants – a Communist Youth group – in their own headquarters in Medellin – amongst them a pregnant woman.   Armando Orozco Tovar   The difference between this massacre and the atrocity […]

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Shame, a painful emotion

What are the effects of ‘shame’ on Caribbean families? I believe that this powerful emotion is perpetuated by the dysfunctional family structures that exist there, such structures being themselves directly caused by the deliberate humiliation visited on the imprisoned Africans by the slavers and their plantocratic masters.   Nigel Pocock […]