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Venezuelans stuck in Mexico under new U.S. immigration policy

Venezuelan migrants have been arriving at the U.S./Mexico border in record numbers. But a new policy bilateral policy between the U.S. and Mexico intends to limit the number of migrants crossing the border. 

The women of Ukraine

As the war in Ukraine reaches two weeks, the future of women and girls there remains uncertain. With families upended and separated, women are taking on new and different roles. While global agencies are attempting to address the humanitarian crisis, the United Nations warns that the need for assistance will grow as the war continues. 

COVID-19: Reopening U.S. universities

With the new academic year slated to begin in a couple of weeks, universities across the U.S. are preparing for the fall semester in the face of a highly contagious disease.

In the state of Arizona, all three public universities are expected to bring students back with a mix of in-person instruction and online classes, even as the state reports a rising number of deaths and confirmed coronavirus cases.

Latin America demands change

Thousands of Latin Americans have taken to the streets in the last few months to protest their governments and demand change within their countries. Here is a roundup of recent protests in Latin America.

Within Colombia's protests, people are calling for indigenous rights

Colombia’s 3rd national strike in two weeks took place this week. Thousands around the country are supporting different sectors of society and marching for their rights and change within their government. Among those groups are the country’s indigenous. 

Can the largest prison system in the world contain COVID-19?

The U.S. has the largest prison system in the world and now it's battling COVID-19. Housing about two million inmates a day, with the highest per-capita incarceration rate, U.S. prisons and jails are overcrowded and often lacking in ideal sanitary conditions. Now many of these jails and prisons are reporting cases of COVID-19.

U.S. mass transit in COVID-19: How many surfaces do you touch?

The District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia combined have at least 21 COVID-19 cases.

Will SCOTUS save DACA?

A group of people impacted by President Donald Trump's immigration policies marched from New York City to Washington D.C. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments this week about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The program allows people who were were brought to the U.S. illegally as minors to remain in the U.S. Trump has sought to end the program. This group wants SCOTUS to see the faces behind the thousands of people that are currently living in uncertainty in the United States.

Women demand an end to domestic violence

Women around the world are tired of the violence against them… and their societies not doing enough to protect them. Marching by the thousands in several cities and countries around the world, women want to gain awareness and action toward domestic violence. According to the U.N., 1/3  of women and girls experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetime. Half of the women killed around the world are killed by their partners or family.  The color purple has deeper roots than representing domestic violence awareness. It was one of the colors the women’s suffrage movement used in the 1900s. Now, almost 12 decades later, women are turning their cities purple to demand change.