Currently browsing

September 2009

Sexual abuse in Guatemala

Women in areas of Guatemala where mining companies operate have condemned the sexual abuse by security forces during forced evictions in, for example, San Juan Sacatepéquez. The women state that the police was acting on behalf of the Guatemalan Nickel Company (CGN), local subsidiary of HudBay Minerals Inc., a Canadian …

International Day of the Indigenous Woman

5 September is the International day of the indigenous women, in which the cruel death of Bartolina Sissa is commemorated in La Paz, Bolivia. El 5 de septiembre se celebró el Día Internacional de la Mujer Indígena, instituido el año 1983 durante el Segundo Encuentro de Organizaciones y Movimientos de …