Nobel Women's Initiative and JASS (Just Associates) are thrilled to announce the launch of Women Crossing the Line, a new three-part mini-documentary series that spotlights the work of women human rights defenders in Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala!
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LA GUERRA CONTRA LAS DROGAS SE HA CONVERTIDO EN UNA GUERRA CONTRA LAS MUJERES EN AMÉRICA CENTRAL, SEÑALA UN NUEVO INFORME
El informe se basa en testimonios de cientos de mujeres en todo el territorio centroamericano
AVISO A LA PRENSA: 12:30 pm EDT/ 11:30 am CST/ 9:30 am PDT el martes, 5 de junio ...read more
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WAR ON DRUGS HAS BECOME WAR ON WOMEN IN CENTRAL AMERICA, SAYS NEW REPORT
Report Draws on Testimony from Hundreds of Women Across Central America
Media Advisory for: 12:30 pm EDT/ 11:30 am CST/ 9:30 am PDT on Tuesday, June 5, 2012
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(Ottawa) February 29, 2012
An independent fact-finding delegation to Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala, led by Nobel Peace Laureates Jody Williams and Rigoberta Menchú Tum, found that violence against women—including murder, rape and forced disappearances—has reached a crisis point in the region. ...read more
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Here is just a small sample of some of the 1500 + tweets that were made during our delegation, using the hashtag #defensoras on Twitter.
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by Ruth Warner, Spanish language interpreter
A little snapshot for you:
When a small group of us went to San Miguel Ixtahuacan in San Marcos, we meet with a group of around twenty women and a few men to hear their testimonies about mining in the area. We gathered in a meeting hall belonging to ...read more
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by Veronica Arreola, activist blogger, University of Illinois at Chicago
Guatemala is a country struggling to deal with its bloody past in order to move into the future. The internal conflict of the 1980s resulted in the extinction of over 300 Mayan villages. Former President Efraín Ríos Montt ...read more
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