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Tag: El Salvador
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Nation & World
How total abortion ban puts maternal health at risk
A new study finds high rates of serious complications among Salvadoran patients who were forced to carry severely malformed fetuses to term.
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Applying public health solutions to acute migration dilemma at border
Harvard Chan School Dean Michelle Williams, who is on the leadership council of Vice President Harris’ Partnership for Central America, said stemming the flow, while difficult, is possible.
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Mothers of stillborns face prison in El Salvador
Shortly after passing a total abortion ban in 1997, El Salvador became the first Latin American nation to incarcerate women who suffered stillbirths and other obstetrical emergencies for the crime of homicide. Sociologist Jocelyn Viterna analyzes the cultural dynamics that transformed a “pro-life” movement into a political system that revoked women’s rights.
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A message from the pope in the life of a saint
The canonization of Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero, who was killed by a death squad while celebrating Mass in 1980, reflects Pope Francis’ focus on “those who are in need.”
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Nation & World
The price of women’s immigration
Author Sonia Nazario told a Radcliffe conference that people don’t generally know that large numbers of women who immigrate to the United States illegally to get jobs and support their families back home leave their own children behind to do so.
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Beyond mourning
Former Radcliffe fellow and Mexican-born journalist Alma Guillermoprieto founded an online altar to honor 72 Central Americans massacred in Mexico in summer 2010.
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Faust emphasizes public service
Concluding a year of expanded volunteer efforts at Harvard, president announces new fellowships that will allow students to do well by doing good.
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Social change at ground level
Scott Ruescher’s interest in Latin America spawned a lengthy career in volunteer work — not to mention, he’s also a poet.
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Nation & World
A Salvadoran snapshot
An HGSE student project over January break leads young students to create photographic art, along with exhibits in two countries.
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Nation & World
Break, but no vacation
Harvard students volunteer for service projects overseas — targeting malnutrition and aiding literacy and athletics — during winter break.
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Nation & World
Around the Schools: Harvard Graduate School of Education
A group of students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) will give the gift of literacy this holiday season while on a service-learning trip to Caluco, El Salvador.
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Nation & World
Bhat and Holland named Fisher Prize winners
The Committee of the Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographical Information Science (GIS) has announced that Harvard College senior Shubha Lakshmi Bhat and Alisha Holland, a Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government, are the 2008-09 recipients of the Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographical Information Science.