It is 2014. As a champion of immigrants’ rights and a committed feminist and activist Gabriela thinks Latin American unification is important though having a critical vision about those processes already underway its vital to ensure its success. Virginia Moreno Born in Venezuela she first completed a course […]
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When we immigrants ‘classify’ each other
As immigrants the last thing we want is to be also discriminated against by other immigrant groups, because we have enough with the ‘British natives’. But that is the truth: we immigrants are discriminating against each other. Monica del Pilar Uribe Marin The fact that the Latin American […]
Picket Shell’s London HQ
On Sunday 5 December, the people of Amadiba will march along the Wild Coast to demand that Shell’s project be scrapped. A picket in London will stand in solidarity with Amadiba and other communities. Call from Amadiba Crisis Committee, South Africa. Andy Higginbottom* Only a month after the […]
Ecuador smuggling rings see windfall in migrants
A surge in US-bound migrants has been a boon to human smuggling rings in Ecuador – in a pattern that is playing out across much of the region. Gabrielle Gorder According to the journalistic outlet Connectas and 1800Migrante, an organization that provides legal advice to Ecuadoreans, human smugglers are […]
Child brides, a story driven by machismo
At three days old, little Madine was already engaged to a 5-year-old boy, even though her mother, an Afghan woman herself a victim of child marriage, was opposed to forcing her daughter into the same fate. It’s an old story but one that prevails. Around the world, there are 650 […]
















