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Tamara Castro Márquez

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Cutting Through Trees and Rights: Peru’s Construction of Highway Through Amazon Violates Indigenous Peoples’ Rights

  • Tamara Castro Márquez
  • 4 . 7 . 2018
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Recently, Peru’s legislative branch passed a law allowing the construction of highways through the border zones of the Peruvian Amazon. The largely untouched land is home to indigenous peoples living in “voluntary isolation.” Indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation have…

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Current Immigration Enforcement Focus Violates Due Process Rights

  • Tamara Castro Márquez
  • 2 . 26 . 2018
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Recent political discourse in the United States has framed immigration as a criminal enforcement issue, likening immigrants to criminals. When it comes to immigration enforcement, there has been a recent focus on using gang databases to target noncitizens for deportation….

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Indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation and in initial contact in the Amazon and Gran Chaco

  • Tamara Castro Márquez and Isaac Morales
  • 1 . 7 . 2018
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By: Tamara Castro Marquez (translated from Spanish by Isaac Morales) Set of civil society organizations expose on the situation of indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation and initial contact in the Amazon and Gran Chaco via Flickr user inter-American Commission on…

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Pueblos Indígenas en Aislamiento Voluntario y Contacto Inicial en la Amazonía y el Gran Chaco

  • Tamara Castro Márquez
  • 1 . 7 . 2018
  • 6 to 12 minutes to read
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Por: Tamara Castro Marquez En la mesa de Comisionados: Francisco José Eguiguren Praeli (Comisonado presidente y Relator sobre los derechos indígenas) James L. Cavallaro (Comisionado) María Claudia Pulida (Secretaria Ejecutiva Adjunta) Peticionarios: Conjunto de organizaciones vinculadas a los pueblos indígenas…

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Santiago Maldonado: Recent Victim of Dictatorship Era Violations

  • Tamara Castro Márquez
  • 12 . 1 . 2017
  • 5 to 10 minutes to read
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On August 1, 2017, Santiago Maldonado, an activist, was disappeared from the banks of the Chabut River in Argentina. Two months later, on October 17 the Argentine government announced that Santiago’s body was discovered in that same river. His forced…

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