The following excerpt is from an October 3, 2010 article published by WeNews.  To read the article in its entirety, click here. 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 [...]

The following excerpt is from a July 13, 2010 article, published by CNN.com.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. (CNN) — An appeals court ruling has raised the possibility that Guatemalan women will be able to seek asylum in the United States because of the high rates of femicide in that [...]

The following excerpt is from a June 21, 2010 article published by IPS.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Rosenda Gómez, a 53-year-old mother of five, knows all about challenges. To overcome them, she started a modest sausage business in Guatemala, and thanks to her leadership skills and training and other [...]

The following excerpt is from a May 3, 2010 article published by Grassroots International.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Last week, I met with representatives from the National Women’s Commission of the Via Campesina – Guatemala. The Commission comprises women from four different peasant and indigenous organizations… The women of the Via [...]

The following excerpt is from an April 23, 2010 article published by the Latin American Herald Tribune.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. GUATEMALA CITY – The majority of Guatemala’s textile and food-processing plants are exploiting their female workers, according to a study presented here Thursday by the London-based Doctors of [...]

The following excerpt is from a Fall, 2006 article published by Roselyn Costantino.  To view the article in its entirety, please click here. Violence against women in Guatemala is not a new story; the staggering increase in the number of crimes and level of violence against women, however, is shocking. Since 2000, the Guatemala National [...]

The following excerpt is from an April 21, 2010 article published by Inside Costa Rica.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. GUATEMALA – Guatemala’s official and social entities disagree on the number of Guatemalan women killed this year in a violent way, but they do agree it has increased uncontrollably. The [...]

The following excerpt is from an April 21, 2010 article published by Inside Costa Rica.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. GUATEMALA – Guatemala’s official and social entities disagree on the number of Guatemalan women killed this year in a violent way, but they do agree it has increased uncontrollably. The [...]

The following excerpt is from an April 13, 2010 article published by The Independent.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. NEIU Professor Brett Stockdill returned from his trip to Guatemala to speak with the university about their issue of domestic violence and what is being done currently to combat it on [...]

The following excerpt is from an April 12, 2010 article published by The Cutting Edge News.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. In 2009, some 847 women were murdered in the Central American republic of Guatemala. Over the last 10 years, some 5,000 have been similarly killed. So far in 2010, [...]

The following excerpt is from an April 12, 2010 article published by the Eurasia Review.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. By Louisa Reynolds For two years, Marta, an illiterate, 43-year-old Maya Kaqchikel woman, worked as a housemaid and was abused by her employers. The non-indigenous family she worked for in [...]

The following excerpt is from a February 9, 2010 article published by The Latin American Herald Tribune.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. GUATEMALA CITY – The climate of insecurity in Guatemala is forcing women to arm themselves to protect themselves and their families, the official Diario de Centroamerica newspaper said [...]

The following excerpt is from a Janaury 7, 2010 article published by Antigua Daily Photo. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Women. They are the subject of these pictures. Why? The gruesome brutality hasn’t stopped. In fact, it has barely dipped. The Latin American Herald Tribune reports that 708 women were [...]

The following excerpt is from a Janaury 7, 2010 article published by Antigua Daily Photo. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Women. They are the subject of these pictures. Why? The gruesome brutality hasn’t stopped. In fact, it has barely dipped. The Latin American Herald Tribune reports that 708 women were [...]