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In Mexico, Domestic Workers’ Story Is Rags to Rags

By Rosi Andrade & Por Alison Bowen ● Employment ● May 7, 2015

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.

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Latin American Indigenous Women Hold NYC Tribunal

By Hajer Naili ● Uncategorized ● May 20, 2014

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.

Iraqi Candidates Step Up; Sex Assault Bill Fails

By WeNews Staff ● Uncategorized ● March 8, 2014

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.

Mexican Transgender Women Deported to Life of Peril

By Amy Lieberman ● Uncategorized ● August 26, 2013

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.

Transgenders in Mexico Dream of Escape

By Amy Lieberman ● Uncategorized ● July 17, 2013

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.

Mexican Indigenous Moms Pushed, Pulled by Fertility

By Vania Smith-Oka ● Uncategorized ● May 11, 2013

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.”

Pediatricians Support Plan B; Mexican Mayor Killed

By WeNews Staff ● Arts & Culture ● December 1, 2012

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Central American Women Suffer ‘Crisis of Violence’

By Sadiya Ansari ● Politics ● June 6, 2012

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.

Family and Work: An Immigrant Woman’s Dilemma

By Zaira Cortes ● Uncategorized ● January 27, 2012

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.

Mexican Labor Shortage Opens Mining to Women

By Cristina Avila-Zesatti ● Employment ● April 15, 2011

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.