Country Programs – Page 19

Climate Change and Migration: Nicaragua

May 4, 2016

Advocacy, Climate Change, Migration, Nicaragua

Derrick Charles is the co-representative of MCC Nicaragua. This post is part of our ongoing series on migration. “The guy who lives there is in the United States. The one over there is in the United States...

Migration throughout the Heart of South America

April 20, 2016

Advocacy, Bolivia, Migration

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Rebekah Nimtz is an MCC Service Worker in the cross-roads, bread-basket city of Cochabamba, Bolivia. This blog post is part of our series on migration. "Nadie parte fácilmente y quizás nunca del todo." -Emm...

Stories and Labels

April 13, 2016

Advocacy, Colombia, Migration

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The author, far right, stands beside Betty. Betty lives with Angel, on the left, who is from Barcelona. The Cat was purchased by the City of Barcelona from another Colombian who migrated to Europe years ago, F...

Advocacy Encounter: Guatemala 2016

April 11, 2016

Advocacy, Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua

Anna Vogt is the MCC LACA Policy Analyst and Advocacy Support. “A world of peace, a people with dignity, equality and equity with rights. Ancestral communities in resistance, full of hope. Strength lies in a...

Cheche Lavi – Seeking a Better Life in Haiti’s cities

April 5, 2016

Haiti, Migration

Paul Gregoire and Herby Sanon. Ted Oswald. Katharine and Ted Oswald are the policy analysts and advocacy coordinators for Mennonite Central Committee in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Herby and Paul are Hait...

The Courage of Bread

April 4, 2016

Advocacy, Colombia, Peace and Non-Violence, Rural Justice

Anna Vogt is the MCC LACA Policy Analyst and Advocacy Support. This post was originally published on Anna’s personal blog. This has been a week of hope and despair. On Wednesday, the ELN and the governme...

A Forgotten Epidemic

March 15, 2016

Advocacy, Haiti, Peace and Non-Violence, Rural Justice

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Katharine Oswald is a policy analyst and advocacy coordinator for Mennonite Central Committee in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. This article was orginaly posted on Third Way Cafe Haiti is home to the world’s worst c...

Weekly Roundup, March 11: Special Edition Environmental Defenders

March 11, 2016

Advocacy, Climate Change, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Mining Justice, Weekly Roundup

The death of Berta Cáceres last Thursday continues to reverberate throughout Latin America. The award winning Honduran Indigenous and environmental activist was shot and killed and the only witness, Gustavo Cas...

Pieces of Paper

February 29, 2016

Advocacy, Colombia, Peace and Non-Violence, Rural Justice

Anna Vogt is the MCC LACA Policy Analyst and Advocacy Support. This post was originally published on Anna’s personal blog. I can’t stop thinking about a story Larisa told me at the end of Novem...

The Paris Agreement. And now what?

February 22, 2016

Advocacy, Climate Change, Nicaragua

Stephanie McDonald, senior policy advisor for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. Her article was originally posted on the Ottawa Office Notebook. As I entered the site of the Paris Climate Conference, known as C...

The Food We Share

“Imagino un mundo … donde mujeres y [niñas] podamos caminar en las calles, trabajar, y convivir … sin miedo” (part 3)

“Yo quisiera que termine toda esa violencia” El Día de la Eliminación de la Violencia contra la Mujer (part 2)

Día Internacional de la Eliminación de la Violencia Contra la Mujer (parte 1)