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In May 2006, Mexican police responded with violence to protests in the San Salvador Atenco, killing two people, injuring many… Read More »
Today is Monday, 30 January 2012, and we’re at our penultimate day of this trip and I’m barely at Honduras… Read More »
Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Laureate Tuesday, 24 January 2012 Two women we met with, Supreme Court Justice Olga Sanchez Cordero… Read More »
Elba Rubio is a reporter for the community radio station La Voz De Zacate Grande. The radio station is located… Read More »
by Veronica Arreola, delegate & blogger We arrived in Honduras on Honduran Women’s Day. The history of Honduran Women’s Day… Read More »
Victoria & Nenetzin are step-sisters whose parents (Eva and Marcial) are activists who have disappeared. Watch their story (in Spanish). … Read More »
Visit the Just Associates profile of the remarkable ‘Feminists in Resistance’ in Honduras. The coup d’état that took place in… Read More »
Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Laureate Monday, January 23 — Chilpancingo, Guerrero We were on the road by about 5:30 am. … Read More »
Our first day in Guatemala we traveled out of the city to meet with indigenous women, many of whom are… Read More »
In 2009, Mindi Rodas told her husband she was leaving him because he was having an affair. As they took… Read More »
by Paula Todd MEXICO CITY— From Saturday’s Globe and Mail Published Friday, Jan. 27, 2012 Canadian Sheila Nabb – badly… Read More »
From Foreign Policy in Focus By Laura Carlsen, January 27, 2012 There are many kinds of war. The classic image… Read More »
In December 2010, Marisela Escobedo was holding a peace vigil in Chihuahua City’s main square when she was approached by… Read More »
In 2010 journalist Paula Todd did a four part series on Canadian mining companies in Guatemala: W5: Paradise Lost, part… Read More »
We arrived in Honduras on Honduran Women’s Day and participated in celebrations in a city square in Tegucigalpa. The next… Read More »
Pamela Yates, Filmmaker & Co-founder of Skylight Pictures The culmination of decades of work by the victims and survivors of… Read More »
The women Laureates of the Nobel Women’s Initiative send their heartfelt condolences to our sister laureate, Rigoberta Menchú Tum on… Read More »
Link to full Opinion Editorial in the New York Times By DANA FRANK SANTA CRUZ, Calif. IT’S time to acknowledge… Read More »
Al expresar sus condolencias a su Presidenta, Doctora Rigoberta Menchú Tum, la Fundación que lleva su nombre, a la opinión… Read More »
ON THE PLANE TO HONDURAS… Where did all these days go? My visit to Atenco was only five days ago… Read More »
Our second day in Mexico we met with indigenous women activists from the state of Guerrero. Despite discrimination and poverty… Read More »
And the work begins. Day one in Mexico City, hearing testimonies from women from all over Mexico at a meeting… Read More »
Veronica Arreola, Blogger I arrived in Mexico City on Saturday already worn out from a migraine and travel. As I… Read More »
Canadian singer, and Nobel Women’s Initiative delegate, will perform in Guatemala City near the end of our journey together…
Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Laureate 20 January 2012 – My First Day The story of Atenco, a small town in… Read More »
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