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Link to Full Article: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/Latin-America-Monitor/2012/0123/Guatemalans-scale-volcano-to-protest-domestic-violence
GUATEMALA - VOLCANO MARCH IN PROTEST
OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
They weren’t on an adventure excursion though. It was a mega protest against domestic violence, which included 12,000 women, children, and men (including Guatemala’s new president Otto Perez Molina).
Violence
has dogged Central America, and while it is gang killings and drug
trafficking violence that dominates headlines, violence against women is
rising.
The march in Guatemala is one of several actions organized by human rights defenders in recent years. We reported about a creative effort in Suchito, a colonial town outside of San Salvador, where centuries-old whitewashed homes were adorned with permanent wording that read: “In this house we want a life without violence towards women.”.......
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Subject: Guatemala - Femicide - Call for Justice
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GUATEMALA is
facing epidemic levels of violence against women. Over the past decade, almost
4,000 women and young girls have been murdered. Many of them were raped and
mutilated, their bodies discarded in public places. Despite the high prevalence
of femicide (the gender-based murder of women) and gender-based violence in
2010 - MADRE
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Mourning Guatemala
Mother of Slain Daughter - Video
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Guatemala - End Violence
Against Women
In
Women and
girls are being raped, tortured and murdered, their mutilated bodies discarded
in public places.
In the past decade nearly 5,000 young women have been murdered in this way,
some as young as ten. The community of our sister organization in
The challenge is immense, but change is possible. We can do it because of the
courage of our sisters at the Women Workers’ Committee in Barcenas, our
expertise and strong alliances in the global women’s movement, and because of you.
We will confront this
crisis at every level.
- At the
local level: We train women to form community watch groups and
to use self-defense whistles provided by MADRE.
- At the
international level: We work to pursue justice for the families of
victims by providing legal aid services and demanding that the killings of
women are properly investigated and prosecuted. We’re starting with the
case of Rosemary Gonzalez, a teenaged girl from the community of our
sister organization who was murdered two years ago.
- At the
national level: At the international level: We’ve already gathered
on-the-ground evidence and testimonies for a report, which we will present
to the United Nations Human Rights Committee in October.