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Central America

Within this sub-region, PeaceWomen is currently monitoring 3 countries (El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua).

Central America is home to countries of high (Panama 54) to medium (Guatemala 116) levels of human development, in addition to many emerging post- conflict countries. According to the Global Gender Gap Index (GGGI), Guatemala ranks at 109, El Salvador at 90, Nicaragua at 30, in contrast to the regional high country of Costa Rica at 28.

For information on National Action Plans in the region for SCR 1325, please click here. 

 

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  • February 6, 2012 (Latina Lista)
    EL SALVADOR: Women of El Salvador Start the New Year with a Special Law Protecting Them In El Salvador in 1930, the first female president in all of Latin America was elected. Her name was Prudencia Ayala and she led the way in history to proclaim the equality of rights. Twenty years after that declaration, the government, in 1950, granted full equality for both sexes in El Salvador.
  • February 6, 2012 (MADRE)
    GUATEMALA: Justice Delayed But Not Denied for Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala “Everything changed when the soldiers arrived,” said Rosa, an Indigenous Ixil woman living in the Quiché region of Guatemala. “They burned our homes, raped the women and killed many of my friends and neighbors.”
  • February 1, 2012 (Nobel Women's Initiative)
    GUATEMALA: Take Action: Protect Guatemalan Human Rights Defender Norma Cruz Guatemalan human rights defender Norma Cruz – leader of the women's rights organization ‘Survivors' Foundation' (Fundación Sobrevivientes) – has received repeated death threats because of her work supporting victims of violence against women and calling for those responsible to be prosecuted.
  • January 31, 2012 (IPS)
    GUATEMALA: Guatemala Heeds the Cries of Femicide Victims The relentless wave of femicides in Guatemala, which has one of the highest female murder rates in the world, has prompted actions by the government, civil society groups, and two Nobel Peace laureates to try to put a stop to this brutal violence against women, which has reached horrific proportions.
  • January 20, 2012 (Madre News)
    GUATEMALA: Women Standing Up to Violence in Guatemala City On December 1, 2011, a woman from the community of Barcenas, on the outskirts of Guatemala City, was violently assaulted and left unconscious, bleeding from severe wounds. With the support of MADRE, our partners at the Women Workers Committee in Barcenas provided her with emergency support to ensure that she heals both emotionally and physically from this attack. The Women Workers Committee also helped her file a formal complaint against her attackers.

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