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The VIVX Leadership Team. Photo: Skylight At Skylight, human rights is not something we observe once a year on International Human Rights Day. The promotion of human rights and the defense of those who uphold those rights is at the very core of who we are. Today,...
Let me start with a personal note: I first arrived in Cartagena, Colombia many years ago shortly after being enthralled by Gabriel García Márquez’s magnificent novel “100 Years of Solitude,” a story that lit my imagination and in many ways set the course of my...
The film follows a movement of homeless people who organized to take over government housing in eight cities across three days in May, 1990....
The forces of impunity in Guatemala are roaring back with a vengeance and their closing of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala on September 3, 2019 is a stark manifestation of that. ...
We were in the holding cell behind the courtroom – Jeff, Lam Choi and I. It was tense, you could see it in Jeff’s face, the way he clenched his jaw, the way he held his head. ...
Yalitza Aparicio photoshopped and made to look whiter and thinner on the cover of ¡HOLA! magazine (left). Yalitza untouched (right). The ¡HOLA! cover has generated much controversy. By Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj The well-deserved recognition for Yalitza Aparicio, who through her performance in “Roma” shows...
Supporters of the defendants outside the courtroom at the No More Deaths trial Post by Pamela Yates, January 18, 2019 The verdict came quickly and it was harsh: Guilty. Flashback one day to the closing arguments that summed up the case. Nathaniel Walters, the US government prosecutor is blunt. “This case...
Water drop in the Sonora desert in southern Arizona Post by Pamela Yates, January 16, 2019 Oona Holcomb is 39 years old, a masters degree student in Public Health with a global perspective at St. Catherine’s University in St. Paul, Minnesota and the first defendant to testify...
Press conference by No More Deaths volunteers outside the Federal Courthouse in Tucson AZ by Pamela Yates January 15, 2019 Four of the No More Deaths/No Más Muertes defendants went on trial today in Federal Court in Tucson, Arizona charged with trespassing onto designated wilderness and littering....
An Open Letter to President Donald J. Trump and the Government of the United States of America By Irma. A. Velásquez Nimatuj [caption id="attachment_20432" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo Credit: Skylight from the film series “Defiance"[/caption] Mr. President, I am a Mayan-K'iche' woman from Western Guatemala, and I am one...
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