Gabriela García Calderón

2 weeks ago | globalvoices.org | Teodora C. Hasegan |Laura Chaparro |Gabriela García Calderón |Janine Mendes-Franco

Small in stature, with black and white fur, whiskers for days, and a touching gaze, Añemó, which in the Kamentsá language means “to be strong,” came into my life on August 7, 2021, during a pivotal year in my personal, intellectual, and academic history. I had begun my PhD in law just a few months before, with a scholarship from the Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá, Colombia, where I took on the challenge of communicating, through legal lenses, other ways of being in the world.

2 weeks ago | globalvoices.org | Laura Chaparro |Gabriela García Calderón |Oiwan Lam |Carlos Flores

In the year that Brazil marks the 40th anniversary of the end of the military dictatorship (1964–1985), and with the debate surrounding this period revived by the success of the film ”Ainda estou aqui” (I’m Still Here, 2024), another issue remains latent in the country: the Brazilian state's debt to the victims of human rights violations committed by the regime.