With El Salvador's gang truce teetering on the brink, it's high time to get women involved in any peace negotiations

Laws to punish domestic violence are too often honoured in the breach

The first time I heard the term Women Human Rights Defender (WHRD) it was a bit of revelation to me.

“A few years ago, our people, the people you can see around you, we began to realize what was happening,”

The best places for women to live in Latin America and the Caribbean are Barbados and Cuba, according to a May report

Quietly and against the odds, women are stepping up the political ladder in Latin America, moving ahead of the United

In 2008, the Guatemalan parliament passed a law against ‘femicide' (even though it's a word you won't find in a

“Everything changed when the soldiers arrived,” said Rosa, an Indigenous Ixil woman living in the Quich&e

Despite being denied, again, title to the land on which they have labored, there is no quit in this group of women fr

Rosemary Gonzalez was murdered in 2009, the victim of a war that ended in 1996.

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is working with AMC, the second-largest microfinance institution in El Salvado

Amnesty International today urged the Guatemalan authorities to act to stop the high numbers of women being killed ac

In the small Latin American country of Guatemala, violence against women is a widespread problem girls deal with from

A recent gathering of Latin America's top economic commission issued a document praising secularism, condemning &quot

The 11th Regional Conference on Latin American and Caribbean Women closes Friday with the approval of the "Brasi

The 9th U.S.

Josefina Rodríguez very nearly lost her life trying to protect the small plot of farmland in rural Nicaragua t

"Violence against women is not only domestic, it also happens in the streets.

On the eve of Mother's Day 2010, relatives of women murdered in Ciudad Juarez and their allies chalked up another vic

"Women help to reduce poverty and raise family incomes, but they pay too high a price for it, because in every c

Advanced new legislation and constitutional reforms on women's rights are paving the way for equal opportunities for

Human rights organisations in Mexico and the United States sounded the alarm about abuses against women by the Mexica

The rising number of women being murdered in Central America is highlighted in a recently released grim report, thank