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Women Worldwide

Bolivia: Solidarity Inside The Miraflores Maximum Security Women’s Prison

Former inmates of the Miraflores Women’s Penitentiary Center — where former Interim President Jeanine Anez is now serving her sentence — share their stories of solidarity and support among the women there, but they also call for changes within the prison system and society.

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Ideas Society

COVID, All The Rave: France Debates The ‘Right To Party’

A New Year’s Eve ‘free party’ in Lieuron, France, became a state affair. While politicians are quick to condemn and punish the fête’s organizers and attendees, they offer no real solution.

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In The News

When Grown Children Shelter-In-Place With Mom And Dad

Reunited and it feels so…? In France, a number of young adults chose to spend the confinement period with their parents. Families butted heads, of course, but also bonded.

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Ideas

COVID-19, A Dangerous Pretext For Permanently Closing Borders

A strategy for fighting the pandemic, national confinement morphs into a dangerous ideology if it uses the pretext of health protection to target migrants.

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Ideas Society

Social Isolation And Social Media, A Toxic Combination

Do we need to see influencers in their designer pajamas?

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Rue Amelot

Sartre, Phil Collins And My Quarantined Neighbors In Mexico City

-Essay- MEXICO CITY — I notice some are still touching surfaces, grabbing a pole to hold onto on the bus or the handrails on escalators. With reckless abandon. For me, no sniffle nor sneeze nor little cough escapes my notice. On a city bus, you’d think they would make every effort to “swallow” that cough. […]

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In The News

COVID-19 In Ivory Coast, Where Social Distancing Is Nearly Impossible

Self-quarantining is a concept incompatible with a culture that helps the sick and greets them with open arms.

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