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  • Salvadoran First Lady, Vanda Pignato, receives a hug from a supporter at an International Women's Day event in San Salvador. Photo by Jamie Stark.

    Steps toward equality amidst machismo in El Salvador

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    SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR – Small signs of support for gender equality are popping up here in Central America. Women’s rights are more than pressing here in El Salvador, the nation with the highest rate of femicide in the world. Yet changes are evident and increasingly popular. The current left-leaning […]

  • Far Right Rising Ahead of European Elections

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      In less than a week, EU member countries will be voting in the May 22 European elections. The nationalist parties of EU member states are all gaining a huge momentum. Ironically these right wing parties are uniting together to break away from the European Union. Due to years of austerity […]

  • Inequality is Uganda’s Social Challenge

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    Inequality is a social challenge that exists in every society. There is always inequality among the poor and among the rich. Even in same family if the children are born of rich parents, the children don’t usually inherit the same amount of wealth. Just like there are inter-country inequalities, there […]