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Colombia Confronts Female Genital Mutilation With Law and Moral Patience 0
- Equality, WE ARE
- June 11, 2026
Colombia’s new female genital mutilation law targets a hidden crisis affecting Indigenous girls, choosing prevention over punishment and forcing Latin America to face a difficult truth: protecting children sometimes means confronting harmful traditions without humiliating the communities carrying them forward.
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Colombia May Fail Girls as Female Genital Mutilation Bill Stalls 0
- WE ARE, Equality
- May 26, 2026
Colombia’s pending female genital mutilation bill risks dying before a final Senate debate. These alarming rights groups say Indigenous girls remain exposed while lawmakers delay prevention, community education, and a coordinated national response to a hidden human rights emergency.
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Mothers Hunt Ghosts at Mexico-Guatemala Border While States Look Away 0
- WE ARE, Mothers
- May 14, 2026
In Tapachula, mothers from Ecuador, Honduras, Colombia, and Cuba are turning migration’s invisible graveyard into a public accusation, exposing how disappearances on Mexico’s southern frontier now shape family grief, border policy, and Latin America’s uneasy geopolitical bargain with the north.
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Mexico’s World Cup Glow Meets Mothers Searching for the Missing 0
- WE ARE, Mothers
- May 11, 2026
As Mexico readies stadiums for the 2026 World Cup, searching mothers marched on Mother’s Day with missing-person flyers, grief, and anger, demanding that a country preparing to celebrate goals finally confront its 133,601 disappeared and unlocated people.
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Costa Rica Crowns a New Era as Fernández Takes Power 0
- WE ARE, Leaders
- May 11, 2026
At San José’s National Stadium, Laura Fernández became Costa Rica’s fiftieth president and second woman to hold the office, turning a carefully staged transfer of power into a regional signal about democracy, continuity, ambition, and the country’s conservative turn now.
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Colombia’s Newsrooms Face Their Reckoning as Women Break the Silence 0
- WE ARE, Resilient
- May 4, 2026
A new report on Colombian journalism describes more than 260 testimonies of harassment, power, and silence, exposing how women in media learned to survive newsrooms that promised careers while quietly teaching fear, obedience, and resignation across generations for years.
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