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Lolas: Survivors of Enslavement
Why These World War II Sex Slaves Are Still Demanding Justice
Multiple Authors
December 7, 2020
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COVID-19 and Indigenous Communities in Latin America
How One Man – And a Creative Map – Made a Difference in Panama's COVID-19 Crisis
Sofia Moutinho
Grantee
April 8, 2021
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Mental Health and the Cycle of Violence in Guyana
Trying to Stop Suicide: Guyana Aims to Bring Down Its High Rate
Multiple Authors
June 30, 2018
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Access and Understanding: Exploring the Challenges of Disability in India
A Mom Fights to Get an Education for Her Deaf Daughters
Kate Petcosky-Kulkarni
2016 Reporting Fellow
January 16, 2018
![Fedencia Nacar David holds her photo for an application to work as a maid. She was 15. A year before, a Japanese soldier sliced her ear and threatened to behead her if she didn't go to a garrison with him; she was raped over 10 days. "It still hurts," she says. "I was innocent. Why did that happen to me?" She kept her past from her children until "comfort women" began speaking out in the 1990s. Image by Cheryl Diaz Meyer. Philippines, 2019.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/12-07-20/20190510filipinacomfortwomen-cdiazmeyer-22x-19_custom-e5f315036d7fda928e0e86e0cf75a668e7a3911f-s2500-c85.jpg.webp?h=83b361e6&itok=eEipvFLD "Fedencia Nacar David holds her photo for an application to work as a maid. She was 15. A year before, a Japanese soldier sliced her ear and threatened to behead her if she didn't go to a garrison with him; she was raped over 10 days. "It still hurts," she says. "I was innocent. Why did that happen to me?" She kept her past from her children until "comfort women" began speaking out in the 1990s. Image by Cheryl Diaz Meyer. Philippines, 2019.")
