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Cristina Rafanelli: Rediscovering her heritage

A chance family revelation led Argentine journalist Cristina Rafanelli to uncover the extraordinary life of her great-aunt Leda Rafanelli — an anarchist writer, feminist, Muslim and former lover of Benito Mussolini — while tracing the enduring parallels between political repression, resistance and storytelling across generations. The Prisma spoke to her.

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Broken childhoods in Panama’s shelters

Despite the authorities’ denials of irregularities, organisations and specialists are raising the alarm about child pregnancies linked to sexual violence in centres intended to protect vulnerable minors.    Mario Hubert Garrido   Although the government denies it, cases of pregnancy among young girls and adolescents in shelters designed to care […]