Peru: the lasting trauma of wartime sexual violence
Mujer del Soldado sensitively portrays the lives of victims of sexual violence during Peru's civil war and their fight to regain dignity through sorority and a lawsuit against their assailants.
Participatory photography in the Andes
In 2017, a group of women activists in Cajamarca began documenting their perceptions of community, wellbeing and alternatives to extractivism through photography.
Domestic violence in Mexico – a silent pandemic?
Domestic violence is part of a phenomenon that is older than COVID-19, but it is due to the pandemic that it has intensified and, at the same time, that it has gained greater visibility.
Guatemala: violence against women
8 March is celebrated as International Women’s Day. However, in Guatemala for the past three years, the day has been a painful reminder of the long road towards gender equity, and the potentially lethal consequences of continuing misogynistic and violent attitudes towards women.
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.