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Current American trade policy is fueling a regime of violence against women and indigenous culture in Mexico – it is time to take responsibility for the effects of NAFTA.
Arriola - visited several border towns and met privately with mostly female workers - 7 Elvia R., Professor of Law - NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, Seattle Journal for Social Justice, Vo. 5, Issue 2, Spring/Summer
Chowdhury 2002 (Rumna Chowdhury, Former Program Manager of the Battered Women’s Legal Advocacy Project, Winter 2002, "Kadic v. Karadzic - Rape as a Crime Against Women as a Class", Law and Inequality", 20 Law 26 Ineq. J. 91, p. L/N)
Feminist scholars have long recognized sexual violence as a tool used by men to manipulate
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is a problem that deserves much more attention than it has traditionally received.
Nidya Sarria 8/3/2009 Research Associate for the Council on Hemispheric Relations ’FEMICIDES OF JUÁREZ: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN MEXICO’ http://www.coha.org/femicides-of-juarez-violence-against-women-in-mexico
Mexican-owned as well as joint venture industries have not prospered post-NAFTA
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"how common it ~was~ for women to lead double lives."
====We must fight patriarchy in every way possible; this will result in extinction and is the root cause of all impacts. ====
Nhanenge 2007 (Jytte, Masters @ U South Africa, Accepted Thesis Paper for Development Studies, "ECOFEMINSM: TOWARDS INTEGRATING THE CONCERNS OF WOMEN, POOR PEOPLE AND NATURE INTO DEVELOPMENT, uir.unisa.ac.za/bitstream/10500/570/1/dissertation.pdf)
The androcentric premises also have political consequences. They protect the ideological basis of exploitative
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The ultimate result of unchecked patriarchy will be ecological catastrophe and nuclear holocaust.
Mexican democracy is Threatened- it is collapsing into zones of silence
Johnson ’13
Tim Johnson, McClatchey News, In Mexico, fears for democracy as threatened journalists curtail coverage, May 16, 2013, http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/05/16/191415/in-mexico-fears-for-democracy.html~~23.UcNiW_m1E0M
And the violence has worked. In much of Mexico, local news outlets no
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crime reporter and author of a self-protection manual for Mexican journalists.
NGOs empirically empower women, labor groups, and revitalize political voices.
Deb Wilson ’09, Feb., (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=22952
Milagros Peña’s work, Latina Activists across Borders, examines women’s nongovernmental organizations (NGOs
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within their communities which created a greater force directed toward achieving their goals.
Latin American democracy Key to Global Democracy
Fauriol and Weintraub 95 – *director of the CSIS Americas program and Prof of Public Affairs at the University of Texas Georges and Sidney, The Washington Quarterly, "U.S. Policy, Brazil, and the Southern Cone", Lexis
The democracy theme also carries much force in the hemisphere today. The State Department
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on all three in Latin America will compromise progress elsewhere in the world.
Global democratic consolidation prevents any scenario for war, Biodiversity, Human Rights Violations, and Terrorism
Diamond 95
Larry Diamond, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, December 1995, Promoting Democracy in the 1990s, http://wwics.si.edu/subsites/ccpdc/pubs/di/1.htm
OTHER THREATS This hardly exhausts the lists of threats to our security and well-
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which a new world order of international security and prosperity can be built.
Tessler and Grobschmidt 95
Mark Tessler Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for International Studies at the University of Milwaukee, and Marilyn Grobschmidt, doctoral student in International Relations and Comparative Politics at Indiana University, 1995, Democracy War 26 Peace, p. 140-141
Although a number of studies have demonstrated that democracies, in gen¬eral, are no
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II, which pitted" ’advanced capitalist.., states against each other?"
The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement toward Mexico through funding nonprofit non-governmental organizations engaged in micro-financing.
Nayeli Vivanco ’06
College of Arts and Sciences, Northeastern University,
Boston, MA Senior Honors Project Spring, 2006, http://iris.lib.neu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=104726context=honors_projects26sei-redir=126referer=http3A2F2Fwww.google.com2Furl3Fsa3Dt26rct3Dj26q3Dmicrocredit2Bwomen2Band2BMexico26source3Dweb26cd3D1626ved3D0CEcQFjAFOAo26url3Dhttp253A252F252Firis.lib.neu.edu252Fcgi252Fviewcontent.cgi253Farticle253D10472526context253Dhonors_projects26ei3DfcwWUsvPHqHl4AOB6YDIDA26usg3DAFQjCNGULrRq34-jqSmgIqzvlzuD6_UDRA26bvm3Dbv.511565422Cd.dmg~~23search=22microcredit20women20Mexico22
Micro-financing is considered a development tool because it helps people at the bottom
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no access to collateral hindering their participation to traditional loans by commercial banks.
Nayeli Vivanco ’06
College of Arts and Sciences, Northeastern University,
Boston, MA Senior Honors Project Spring, 2006, http://iris.lib.neu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=104726context=honors_projects26sei-redir=126referer=http3A2F2Fwww.google.com2Furl3Fsa3Dt26rct3Dj26q3Dmicrocredit2Bwomen2Band2BMexico26source3Dweb26cd3D1626ved3D0CEcQFjAFOAo26url3Dhttp253A252F252Firis.lib.neu.edu252Fcgi252Fviewcontent.cgi253Farticle253D10472526context253Dhonors_projects26ei3DfcwWUsvPHqHl4AOB6YDIDA26usg3DAFQjCNGULrRq34-jqSmgIqzvlzuD6_UDRA26bvm3Dbv.511565422Cd.dmg~~23search=22microcredit20women20Mexico22
The idea of lending money to the poor via microfinance is a poverty reduction method
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alleviating poverty without sacrificing indigenous culture or losing control of their local economies.
Pain 26 Miller, ’12, David Pain of Christian Aid, Carolyn Miller of Merlin, Sam Worthington of InterAction, Keny-Guyer of Mercy Corps, Helene Gayle of CARE and Bill Drayton of Ashoka. Nonprofit Organizations Knowledge Initiative, 10-8-12, http://www.npoki.org/reinventing-the-international-ngo/
As the aid community’s focus shifts
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be pushing towards the needed global solutions."
Deb Wilson ’09, Feb., (Southern Illinois University Carbondale), http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=22952
Peña also traces the emergence of the NGOs categorically, based on their initial function
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is of concern to all women’s NGOs in both of her research locations.
Great power war is obsolete and small conflicts will not escalate—many reasons
MANDELBAUM 1999 (Michael, Professor of American Foreign Policy, Johns Hopkins University; Director, Project on East-West Relations, Council on Foreign Relations, "Transcript: is Major War Obsolete?" Transcript of debate with John Mearsheimer, CFR, Feb 25, http://www.ciaonet.org/conf/cfr10/)
My argument says, tacitly, that while this
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pawn, not a sentry standing guard against an attack on a king."