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This year, a luncheon hosted by the Women's Refugee Commission focused on the need to protect and empower displaced adolescent girls -- one of the most vulnerable groups within a refugee setting.
Rape, invisible and ubiquitous, is perceived as sexual and inevitable, and we tend to think of children and women as collaterally damaged during war. In truth, all over the world, girls and women are fully, bodily engaged in conflict.
Informed about Nicaragua's political issues over the past decades, I definitely had safety concerns before my trip; but I was stunned when I ended up feeling safer there than walking home in Manhattan.
We dragged our Pepto-Bismol pink plastic chairs away from the light and into the sand, facing the water. Somewhere in front of us the black water met the black sky.
You've heard of some of these places, while others are completely new -- each has a little something sassy to get you anxious to move.
Though U.S. diplomats would like to make alarmist claims about Iran's footprint in Central America, the evidence is pretty thin. That won't stop hyperbolic statements from the Republicans and others, however, who still regard Nicaragua as a virtual U.S. enclave.
Nicaragua, historically one of the most unstable countries in a region not known for its stability, appears to have given up its fight. In a season of political activism, Nicaragua's fraudulent election has shone for its silence -- and acquiescence.
According to my brother currently imprisoned in Nicaragua, "As a family man, the holiday season has been the toughest time of the year to be behind bars."
The ancient adobes are newly dressed in bright tropical colors and filled with fine restaurants, small boutiques. Horse-drawn carriages still roll along the photogenic streets.
Today marks exactly one year since the Nicaraguan police arrested my brother, Jason Puracal, without any evidence of a crime.
In the United States this year, we have seen law after law passed that clearly violates international human rights standards.
Cineastas de Granada has helped over 100 girls empower themselves with a camera by teaching girls how to find their stories, choose their shots and put the film into production.
Yesterday's publication of Decree 292 -- for the ownership transfer of motor vehicles -- has been the culmination of several decade's wait.
The world doesn't have seven wonders, it has seven million.
After nearly two decades of civil war, Nicaragua is the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Education is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty.
