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Articles by Deepa Panchang

Women-Led Resistance Against False Development in Guatemala

Deepa Panchang August 26, 2014 Deepa Panchang

"As a member of the Mayan Women’s Movement which is a part of the Council of K’iche People, we have joined forces to generate action from the people, the community. We are in the midst of change where we are defining our needs, what actions we need to take, what power we have, what our way of looking at the world is." - Aura Lolita Chavez Ixcaquic

Building a Movement for Sexual & Economic Rights in the Philippines: An Interview with Anne Lim

Deepa Panchang May 12, 2014 Deepa Panchang

Anne Lim is from Quezon City, Philippines, where she serves as Executive Director of GALANG, a lesbian-led organization that works with urban poor LBTs (lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people) in the city.

Waiting for Helicopters: Cholera, Prejudice, and the Right to Water in Haiti

Deepa Panchang July 2, 2012 Deepa Panchang

Scientists have shown that the cholera pathogen came to Haiti with foreign UN troops who carried the bacteria in their bodies, and whose military base was dumping its sewage into a nearby river.

Anti-Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission Signs

Business as Government: Capitalizing on Disaster in Post-Earthquake Haiti

Deepa Panchang March 1, 2012 Deepa Panchang

“I am optimistic that in 18 months, yes, we will be autonomous in our decisions. But right now I have to assume... that we are not.”[i] With these words, Haiti’s Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive watched a swath of his government’s decision-making power shift into foreign hands in early 2010.

Contesting Ivory Tower Housing Solutions for Haiti

Deepa Panchang February 6, 2012 Deepa Panchang

Today, with more than 500,000 people still living under sun-scorched tarps two years after the earthquake of January, 2010, the Haitian housing rights movement continues to gain urgency.

Anti-MINUSTAH protest

MINUSTAH in Haiti: Keeping the peace, or conspiring against it?

Deepa Panchang October 19, 2011 Deepa Panchang

"Nou dwe sèl mèt bout tè sa a/We should be the only owners of this land." - This was Haitian protesters’ message at a demonstration last month against the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti, known by its French acronym, MINUSTAH.

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