Meet Dr. Claudia Paz y Paz Bailey – Guatemala’s first female Attorney General. She is a respected criminal law specialist and judge with over 18 years of experience and is also the founder of a human rights organization, the Institute for Comparative Criminal Studies of Guatemala (ICCPG).
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More than 1,000 people have died in last month's factory collapse in Bangladesh, with many of the casualties women who work in the low-paid and difficult garment trade.
The eight-story Rana Plaza that collapsed on April 24, housed five garment factories and served as the unsafe workspace for ...read more
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The six Nobel Peace Prize Laureates of the Nobel Women's Initiative are joining international campaigners to call for a ban on autonomous weapons, or "killer robots."
Automatic weapons are currently being developed with very little transparency. It is likely that these killer robots would be ...read more
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Communities on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border are protesting this week to oppose new plans for tar sands pipelines that would pass through Ontario, Quebec, and parts of New England. Supporters of the "Tar Sands Free Northeast" coalition are building a wall of resistance to tar sands expansion ...read more
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“We have had enough. We call upon our global sisterhood to take action. We will not be quiet until REAL Peace is upon us.”
Grassroots women in Democratic Republic of Congo are calling upon women leaders in the US White House, as well as women globally, to say 'enough is enough'. War and mass ...read more
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