“It’s important to be aware of what’s going on in the world and to think about how you can start to make a difference, even when you’re a kid.”
On 14 January 2014 the closing ceremony of the VII course on Women Leadership was held in the municipality of Antiguo
Jenny Pierce's recent piece about El Salvador on the Inter-American Development Bank's blog, Sin Miedos, questioned w
With El Salvador's gang truce teetering on the brink, it's high time to get women involved in any peace negotiations
Claudia Paz y Paz has a tough job as the first female attorney general in Guatemala, one of the most violent countrie
Thousands of women in Nicaragua have taken to the streets to protest against legal changes that could push female vic
ONE night last year police received a call from worried residents of a wealthy area of San Salvador, El Salvador's ca
Laws to punish domestic violence are too often honoured in the breach
Buenos Aires, Sep 16 (Prensa Latina) Nobel Peace laureate Rigoberta Menchu said today that after many long years of g
The long struggle for justice has come to a point of resolution this week as the High Impact Court “A”cou
Several brutal, high-profile murders of women in the last few weeks in El Salvador are just the latest reminder that
Indigenous women were systematically gang-raped by Guatemala soldiers and members of paramilitary groups during the c
On Wednesday March 20, Rios Montt, the former president of Guatemala, went on trial for genocide and crimes against h
Last week, 35-year-old Carmen Virginia Tuez Franco was found murdered in Guatemala City alongside her niece Silvia Ma
A new report published by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) in collaboration
The first time I heard the term Women Human Rights Defender (WHRD) it was a bit of revelation to me.
“The things we have in common are that our sons or daughters are disappeared, and that we can organize from our
Fifteen brave Guatemalan women from the indigenous q'eqchí people testified before the High Risk Court in Guat
Margarita Lopez begins to speak about the horrible events that marked the end of her daughter's life in a low, even t
Last month saw two major stories involving sexual abuse in the headlines of Nicaraguan newspapers.
“In the garrison they had rooms where they would rape us; sometimes there were three, four or five soldiers,&rd
“In the struggle to defend our territory, our natural resources, what's at stake is our very existence.”
“A few years ago, our people, the people you can see around you, we began to realize what was happening,”
Carla lost everything when she got pregnant at the age of 13: her first year of secondary school, her family, her boy
Women are being murdered in Honduras -- already deemed the world's deadliest country by the United Nations -- at a sk
It's a crime that's rising in Seattle and across the country, and it is even more profound in places like El Salvador
The Mexican authorities have failed to protect women from increasing levels of violence and discrimination or to ensu
Since the "Northern Triangle" of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala emerged as the main corridor for US-bo
The best places for women to live in Latin America and the Caribbean are Barbados and Cuba, according to a May report
On June 22, the Law on Violence Against Women entered into force in Nicaragua, with the approval of its rules of proc
One generally overlooked feature of the Guatemalan government and military's 36-year (1960-96) genocidal counterinsur
Women constitute about 55 percent of Colombia's 3 to 5 million internally displaced population, and a new land restit
Access to justice for women who suffer sexual violence in Central America and southern Mexico remains limited despite
Increased militarization in Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala has created more insecurity, especially for women, a repor
Endless economic and military interference by the U-S and former European colonial powers has resulted in years and y
In 1982, the Guatemalan Army attacked a tiny village in the desolate northern region of Peten, raping, torturing and
“Violence associated with the ‘war on drugs' and organized crime, which includes government corruption in
Quietly and against the odds, women are stepping up the political ladder in Latin America, moving ahead of the United
The involvement of women in anti-war actions and in support of peace activism worldwide is a critical part of modern
The 36 year long civil war (1960-1996) that ravaged Guatemala, left more than 200,000 people dead and at least 100,00
The news of the day was that Democratic representatives walked out of a hearing on “religious liberty and birth
In 2008, the Guatemalan parliament passed a law against ‘femicide' (even though it's a word you won't find in a
It was 1996 when Micaela Flores and 15 other women from Peru's highlands accepted an ambulance ride to a Cuzco clinic
A forum on violence against women will be held in Nicaragua on Friday, after the recent approval of a comprehensive l
A man in a mask opens a door.