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Businessmen have joined efforts to create a unique experience of reality television. Members of rival gangs live under the same roof and compete as businessmen. “It is a topic that interests the entire nation, about youths who could be my own children,” said Carlos Zúñiga, mentor of five of the 10 participants.

Lis Moriconi

Rio de Janeiro based researchers Jessica Galeria and Tatiana Moura reconsider traditional myopic views on women’s roles in armed violence, and bring them into the horizon of public policy and scientific investigation.

Carola Mittrany and Lis Moriconi

COAV Cities Project workshop in Rio brings together working group coordinators from five cities across the Americas and Africa for international collaboration.

Lis Moriconi

Focusing on transnational crime, the declaration was issued by 11th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. The event singled out the issue of children at risk bringing together NGOs and policy makers, calling for prompt action.

Carola Mittrany

Critics say anti-gang policy is the cause. El Salvador has an average 11 homicides a day; extermination groups target young people in Honduras and Guatemala.

Carola Mittrany

Report of the Foundation for the Study for the Application of Law and the Penal Studies Centre of El Salvador denounces 'Super Iron Fist Plan' and says that 'Helping Hand Plan' far from reality.

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With the help of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), 300,000 children and youth could benefit from an anti-gang violence programme.

Carola Mittrany

For the UN, the supposed “link” between military and police repression of gangs and their supposed involvement in terrorism has pushed poverty and inequality off the map. Central American military chiefs seek to create a region-wide military force to combat gangs.

Carola Mittrany

A Project of the Global Network of Religions for Children focuses on preventing growing youth violence in the region.

Michael Mogensen

The US Southern Command (SouthCom), the controversial military organisation responsible for all US military activities in Latin America, speaks out on the threat posed by Latin American gangs.