Mexico: the fight for rights
Aurelia Rivas, a young Tepuehan Indian, spends her days travelling from ranch to ranch to speak to local residents, especially women. It's all part of the struggle to break the traditional gender inequalities.
Brazil: The cruel realities of domestic service
Daughters of rural families find that work as maids in the city is no route to education and independence
Josefina Vázquez Mota: canto de sirenas por el voto femenino
Mexico: Female Presidential Candidate Josefina Vazquez Mota won the primary of the conservative National Action Party (PAN). Gladis Torres gives an overview of her ultra conservative politics, her lack of interest in human rights and in women's issues.
Reflecting on the Women Resisting Violence project
The Women Resisting Violence project was successful in bringing women together, internationalizing the fight against VAWG, raising awareness of Latin Americans’ campaigns against violence, and reaching a wide audience engaged with social issues.
Latin America: Millennium Development Goals
This week UN delegates meeting in New York are evaluating progress made in achieving the MDGs. Amnesty International has produced three radio programmes in Spanish.
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.
Nicaragua: New law passed to protect women from violence
Through a national campaign, the Maria Elena Cuadra women's movement (MEC) has succeeded in getting a new law passed to protect women from violence.
The voices that Dilma ignores
Eliane Brum, the influential Brazilian journalist, says that Brazil's president is not listening to women in the Amazon.
Dilma Rousseff and the magic of Lula
Raul Zibechi says Brazil's likely first woman president owes her dramatic rise to the man who's brought millions out of poverty.
MEXICO: Sexist Violence Invisible in War on Drugs
Violence against women un-noticed and murders unresolved in Mexico's drug war. Calderon's government fails to respond to the human rights violations associated with increased militarisation.