Haiti: Sexual Violence Against Women Increasing
Haiti: Sexual Violence Against Women Increasing. As the aid effort in Haiti continues Amnesty issues a new report, discussing the threat of sexual violence women face on a daily basis.
WHO’S BEEN CLEANING YOUR OFFICE?
The Latin American Women’s Rights Service is under siege, with funding scarce and numbers seeking its help swelling by the day. LAB interviews its director, Carolina Gottardo.
CENTRAL AMERICA: CREATING BETTER OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN IN THE WORKFORCE
Claudia Pompa examines the work of Central American women's NGOs to improve opportunities for women in the labour market.
VENEZUELA Q & A: THE PROBLEM OF IMAGE ATTRITION
Maduro needs to consolidate democracy and avoid a recall referendum half way through his term.
Guatemala: resisting destruction
Guatemala Women Defenders Defy Canadian Mines and Plead for Help
A Chronicle of Hell, Women and Hope
The author describes the pain of the women whose relatives, from husbands to brothers, died in the prison fire of Comayagua, in Honduras.
Brazil: life for women under Dilma
When Dilma Rousseff became Brazil's first female president in January 2011, women had high expectations.Brazilian journalist Tatiana Farah looks atwhat she has achieved so far.
Una pandemia de violencia machista desgarra Latinoamérica
The following article, published by El Pais from Spain, reports on a seminar organised by the Carlos III University in Madrid between 15-16 February, at which a group of specialists discussed the problem of gender violence in Latin America.
Amazonian Indians confront authorities
At the end of this month's indigenous meeting in Manaus, Raoni Kayapó confronts the authorities, just as the woman indigenous leader, Tuíra, famously did in 1989, in a similar protest over the construction of hydroelectric power stations in the Amazon
Violencia manda al exilio a defensoras de DDHH
Mexico: women activists forced into exile. In Spanish.