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Unlike in real life, telenovelas are promoting a prominent role for the female domestic worker in the predominantly middle class and wealthy families that employ her, a Cinderella story of sorts. But that is just a fairy tale.
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.
About 3,000 Iraqi female candidates are preparing to start campaigning for parliamentary elections, a record high. Also this week, the Senate rejected a bill to remove military commanders from decisions over the prosecution of sexual assault cases in the armed forces.
Mexico is one of the world’s most dangerous places to be transgender. But as lawmakers try to change that, transgender women who are deported confront a social backlash that makes their homeland more fearful than ever. The first of four stories.
Puebla is one of many Mexican states where discrimination based on gender orientation is not considered a crime. Many transgenders who live here describe their efforts to leave. And how they wound up giving up.
Rural Mexican women feel the push from the government to limit births and the pull of requests for sex from spouses who reject condoms and vasectomies, writes Vania Smith-Oka in this excerpt from “Shaping the Motherhood of Indigenous Mexico.”
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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.
Midnight passes and it is intensely cold on Roosevelt Avenue. On the corner of 82 Street, Maria Gomez, a-39-year-old Mexican, carefully cleans the space occupied by her food cart.
With water and "jabón Roma," she brushes the fat off the stove that comes from the meat she cooks to prepare tacos.
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A male labor shortage in Mexico has opened the door for more women to join the country’s mining industry. Despite widespread superstitions deterring women from entering mining, one industry official says their inclusion has been a total success.