Update, February 3rd, 2012: Norma Andrade has been attacked again, this time outside her home. She is currently in hospital…. Read More »
Guatemalan human rights defender Norma Cruz – leader of the women’s rights organization ‘Survivors’ Foundation’ (Fundación Sobrevivientes) – has received… Read More »
In May 2006, Mexican police responded with violence to protests in the San Salvador Atenco, killing two people, injuring many… Read More »
Victoria & Nenetzin are step-sisters whose parents (Eva and Marcial) are activists who have disappeared. Watch their story (in Spanish). … Read More »
Meet Inés Fernández Ortega and Valentina Rosendo Cantú. They are indigenous women of the Me’phaa nation from the state of… Read More »
The Paley Center for Media is screening a documentary titled Granito: How to Nail a Dictator – Wednesday, October 19,… Read More »
Indigenous activist Carmen Mejiahas been threatened with her life for speaking out in defense of her community’s rights to water,… Read More »
The Nobel Women’s Initiative is calling upon Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to ensure that Canadian companies uphold the rights of the indigenous communities in which… Read More »
In a show of solidarity with Honduran Feminists in Resistance, women throughout the Americas are mobilizing to pressure the US… Read More »