Balance of the balance: Exports and imports of small arms, light
weapons (SALW) its parts and ammunition to Africa, Latin America, and
the Caribbean, from 2000 to
2007.
The Argentinean judge Mónica Cuñarro, coordinator of the Scientific Committee on narcotics*, explains how the sentence dictated by the Argentinean Nation’s Higher Justice Court, which declares as unconstitutional the offense of narcotics possession for personal consumption, is a paradigm for Latin America. The sentence not only breaks away from a punitive norm, but it also imposes a barrier to the state’s punitive power, by relying on the principles of personal autonomy and dignity of man, among others, as this expert explains.
A pinhole camera, a cell phone. Young photographers and children learn the arts and crafts that tell their stories, fighting stigma and promoting social inclusion in the peripheries of a number of cities in Latin America. It is a question of abandoning prejudices, taking a second look through the looking glass, and finding a new world both familiar and unexpected, hidden in plain sight.
Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica: home to youth gangs widely known as maras and pandillas. A new comparative study offers important new data, after surveying over 3000 members of Central American societies.
Despite a variety of local experiences, a recent study points to the shared pressures and demands of South America's newest generation, that takes up close to a quarter of the population. Their profile, a mix of pragmatic needs and utopian beliefs.
Few arms received as much attention in the past years as the Man Portable Air Defense Systems, or Manpads. The threat of a terrorist missile attack against a commercial plane generated a unprecedented worldwide campaign against Manpads.
Which nations bought which weapons? From whom? This En La Mira article provides exports and imports data on small arms and ammunition based on customs declarations issued by Latin American countries presented to the United Nations.
Daniel Luz offers an article on the contribution that the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) can suppose in the matter of transparency of transferences of arms and ammunition.
Daniel Mack, Coordinator of Arms Control Related Actions of the NGO Sou da Paz, analyzes the evolution of the stance adopted by Latin American countries.
Andrés Serbin, president of the “Regional Coordination of Economic and Social Studies” (Coordinadora Regional de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales - CRIES), explains the early warning and early response system designed to prevent conflicts in Latin America and the Caribbean.
A pinhole camera, a cell phone. Young photographers and children learn the arts and crafts that tell their stories, fighting stigma and promoting social inclusion in the peripheries of a number of cities in Latin America. It is a question of abandoning prejudices, taking a second look through the looking glass, and finding a new world both familiar and unexpected, hidden in plain sight.
