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Male infidelity is widely accepted in Guatemala, but also more likely to get a woman killed than in any other country in Latin America. That’s a challenge for the new femicide courts, which are battling a culture of impunity for violence against women.
To puncture official indifference, Latin American indigenous women are staging a tribunal on the sidelines of a U.N. permanent forum “to push back the invisibility” about what they suffer. “The justice system really doesn’t work for us,” says one.
With its online premiere today, this docu-drama handed the reins over to two young women to tell how they challenged their local mayor to increase girls’ access to health care and education. This different way of filmmaking ended up being an empowering process itself.
The Jerusalem District Court has ruled that women praying at the Western Wall shouldn’t be detained and interrogated. Also, an abortion clinic in Virginia isn’t renewing its license due to new laws.
Nobel Laureates Jody Williams and Rigoberta Menchú Tum spotlight the violence that is perpetrated with impunity on women in Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala in a June 5 report.
Two mothers, an American and Guatemalan, inadvertently get caught in an illegal international adoption scam. In this excerpt from her book, “Finding Fernanda,” Erin Siegal describes their frenzied search for the same child.
A Guatemalan woman’s asylum case could add being female to the list of other reasons–such as race, religion, nationhood or politics–for being granted freedom from persecution in the U.S. Thousands of refugee applicants have a stake in the decision.
Kenya’s investigation of rapes committed during post-election violence is foundering. Rights groups question whether an all-women police task force set up to investigate the violence is little more than a ruse, and female lawyers have dropped out.
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Radio-Canada, the Quebec-based French-language service of Canada’s CBC public network, announced that Celine Galipeau will anchor its 10 p.m. news broadcast, the Globe and Mail reported June 17.
As the Democratic primaries continue to split women’s rights activists down generational lines, Amy Tiemann sees an overdue mother-daughter power struggle in which younger women are claiming their share of the political stage.