Update, February 3rd, 2012: Norma Andrade has been attacked again, this time outside her home. She is currently in hospital. Take action - sign this petition to pressure the Mexican government to provide Norma with protection and ensure she continues to receive proper medical care!
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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.
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OMG, it’s the last day of January 2012
I'm sitting at the airport in Guatemala waiting for the flight to Atlanta. We spent part of the morning with Rigoberta Menchu Tum commemorating the death of her father, burned to death in the Spanish Embassy, 32 years ago today, along with 36 others. There ...read more
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In May 2006, Mexican police responded with violence to protests in the San Salvador Atenco, killing two people, injuring many more, and indiscriminately detaining hundreds of town residents. More than 45 women were detained without explanation and dozens were subjected to physical, psychological and ...read more
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Today is Monday, 30 January 2012, and we’re at our penultimate day of this trip and I’m barely at Honduras in terms of trying to share impressions! And that was last week. One indication of why this writing is taking so long is that when I started this last night, I managed the title before I ...read more
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Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Laureate
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Two women we met with, Supreme Court Justice Olga Sanchez Cordero and Commissioner Dilcya Garcia Espinosa de los Monteros, National Commission to Prevent and Eradicate Violence Against Women, are strong advocates for women’s ...read more
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Elba Rubio is a reporter for the community radio station La Voz De Zacate Grande. The radio station is located in the far south of the country where local residents are engaged in a bitter land dispute with the country’s richest man, Miguel Facussé Barjum, who is trying to develop tourism projects ...read more
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by Veronica Arreola, delegate & blogger
We arrived in Honduras on Honduran Women's Day. The history of Honduran Women's Day set the stage for what were to be three intense days.
After many years of struggle, in 1954, the Honduran Congress passed women's suffrage. The last step was for it ...read more
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Victoria & Nenetzin are step-sisters whose parents (Eva and Marcial) are activists who have disappeared. Watch their story (in Spanish). Write to Mexican authorities urging for their release:
Cartas para exigir el regreso con vida de Eva y Marcial ya que paraticiparon policias municipales ...read more
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Visit the Just Associates profile of the remarkable 'Feminists in Resistance' in Honduras.
The coup d’état that took place in Honduras on June 28, 2009 provoked a massive popular uprising.
Women represent a majority of the demonstrators; approximately 60% of those involved in daily ...read more
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