Women’s Lives and Women’s Struggles
Women's lives and women's struggles. While the daily lives of millions of women in Mexico and Central American continue to be marked by poverty and exploitation.
Guatemala Heeds the Cries of Femicide Victims
Women are the main victims of domestic and criminal violence in Guatemala.
El nuevo gabinete tiene un rostro de mujer, tecnócrata y obrero,...
Bolivian women now constitute half of Evo Morales' cabinet. In Spanish.
Murió La Chapis, mujer comprometida siempre con las comunidades indígenas
Mexico mourns the death of a veteran indigenous activist. In Spanish.
Mujeres al frente del auge económico en América Latina
Latin America: Women at the Fore. If the new female presidential candidate in Mexico, Josefina Vazquez Mota, wins in 1 July election this year, the percentage of Latin America governed by women will rise from 40% to 60%.
Violencia manda al exilio a defensoras de DDHH
Mexico: women activists forced into exile. In Spanish.
La Chapis dies
Maria David Espejo, a Mexican Catholic activist who supported the Lacandon indigenous groups and the Zapatistas in Chiapas, has died in Mexico City at the age of 81.
Honduras: violence against women
Gladys Lanza, from a leading women's movement in Honduras, tells LAB how women in Honduras are fighting back against the escalating rates of violence against women.
South America’s ‘Brown Left’
Many governments in South America see themselves as progressive, yet all are involved in conflicts over the environment.
Brazil: Campaign of terror against Amazon community
Loggers, keen to expel rubber-tappers from timber-rich land in the state of Amazonas in the Brazilian Amazon, are terrorising families, with the cumplicity of the local police force. A report from Pública, one of LAB's partners in Brazil.