femicides

* Film on "femicides" in Guatemala: Killer's Paradise

Boing Boing: December 3, 2006 - December 9, 2006 Archives 2006

I've argued for the last several years, I don't think the "femicides" in Juarez are more the result of the frontier conditions of Juarez than a result of any official complicity, but the State Prosecutor's office has continually been blamed for faulty or sloppy investigations and a lack of any prosecutions in the 300 or so murders over the last 15 years.

The Mex Files 2009

This was a time when Ciudad Juárez erupted in a violent wave of femicides — mass murder of women.

Global Voices in English » Mexico: Protests Against Nomination of Arturo Chávez for Attorney General 2009

The death toll continues to climb and many crimes remain unsolved, leaving the community with little recourse but to take matters into their own hands by forming grassroots non-profit groups to shed light on the issue of the border city femicides.

Global Voices in English » Mexico: Protests Against Nomination of Arturo Chávez for Attorney General 2009

But in the month after the coup, there was a 60% rise in the number of femicides, with the bodies of more than 50 women found in the two largest cities, Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula.

Honduran police turn a blind eye to soaring number of 'femicides' 2011

If the leaders of the world were truly committed to women's issues and were making those issues political issues -- putting sanctions on countries that were doing nothing about honor killings, femicides and all of these things...

Marcia G. Yerman: Liberia's Leymah Gbowee Talks Maternal Health Through Peace Marcia G. Yerman 2011

It was the feminicidios femicides that most upset Rosenberg.

The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010

Sarah's work in the Middle East was a logical extension of years of work around the femicides in Juarez, Mexico, and Josh wished to understand the Middle East as he had China, South Africa, and India with the exchange students under his charge as a teaching assistant.

Randall Amster: Take a Hike: Misconceptions and Machinations Keep Activists Incarcerated in Iran 2010

She is part of a team of students working in the Human Rights Clinic of Columbia Law School in the case of the femicides of Ciudad Juarez.

Brave Mothers Seek Justice for Disappeared Daughters in Ciudad Ju�rez, Mexico 2009

According to figes from the Office of Women's Rights, 325 femicides had been reported through the end of September (an average of 31 per month), and during the month of July alone there were 51 femicides.

Laura Carlsen: Honduran Coup Violates Women's Human Rights 2009