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El Estor’s women becoming gatekeepers of transparency

28 November 2013 in Access to information, Accountability, Americas, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Education, Health, People power, Poverty and development

In the late 1800s a British settler set up a general trading store on the banks of the pristine Lake Izabal in the remote eastern part of Guatemala. The shop, being the only supplier of goods for kilometres around, drew a throng of support from the surrounding villages and soon the area around it developed […]

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