Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Laureate
Monday, January 23 -- Chilpancingo, Guerrero
We were on the road by about 5:30 am. It is about 3½ hours or so by bus through the mountainous land of Guerrero on our way to the capital of the state, Chilpancingo. We got to see a red ball of a sun rise over ...read more
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In 2009, Mindi Rodas told her husband she was leaving him because he was having an affair. As they took a walk down by the river in Santa Rosa, he attacked the 22 year-old mother, saying it was “either him or no one.” Mindi was savagely beaten by her husband with a rock and received ...read more
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by Paula Todd
MEXICO CITY— From Saturday's Globe and Mail
Published Friday, Jan. 27, 2012
Canadian Sheila Nabb – badly beaten in a luxury resort in Mexico – was cared for like a queen in a country that too often treats its own women worse than animals. But her case and the ironic presence of a ...read more
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From Foreign Policy in Focus
By Laura Carlsen, January 27, 2012
There are many kinds of war. The classic image of a uniformed soldier kissing mom good-bye to risk his life on the battlefield has changed dramatically. In today’s wars, it’s more likely that mom will be the one ...read more
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In December 2010, Marisela Escobedo was holding a peace vigil in Chihuahua City’s main square when she was approached by a group of masked men. As she attempted to flee across the street to the safety of the Governor’s Palace, she was shot and killed – the entire incident caught on a security ...read more
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In 2010 journalist Paula Todd did a four part series on Canadian mining companies in Guatemala:
W5: Paradise Lost, part one
Canadians have long prided themselves on the country's international reputation. But, in places like Guatemala, where Canadian mining companies have set up, that good ...read more
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Pamela Yates, Filmmaker & Co-founder of Skylight Pictures
The culmination of decades of work by the victims and survivors of the Guatemalan genocide forced former General Efraín Ríos Montt to appear in court Thursday, for a hearing to decide whether there was enough evidence to take him to ...read more
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The women Laureates of the Nobel Women's Initiative send their heartfelt condolences to our sister laureate, Rigoberta Menchú Tum on the death of her sister. We offer our love and support to Rigoberta and her family during this difficult time and we wish them the strength and comfort to be found in ...read more
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Link to full Opinion Editorial in the New York Times
By DANA FRANK
SANTA CRUZ, Calif.
IT’S time to acknowledge the foreign policy disaster that American support for the Porfirio Lobo administration in Honduras has become. Ever since the June 28, 2009, coup that deposed Honduras’s ...read more
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Al expresar sus condolencias a su Presidenta, Doctora Rigoberta Menchú Tum, la Fundación que lleva su nombre, a la opinión pública hace saber el sensible fallecimiento de la Señora Lucia Menchú Tum, hermana de la Premio Nobel de la Paz, quien, por causas naturales, lamentablemente dejó de existir el ...read more
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