Ending Violence Against Children
Violence against children is not a new subject for the international community. Since the enactment of the first human rights treaties, concerns for the protection of children from…
Category: Women, Sexuality and Families
Fictions and Facts of Identity and Gender-Based Aggression
I never imagined that my short films about transsexual and transgender life in Boston would lead to human rights work in Latin America. But the truth is that film is a powerful medium through…
Magaly’s Legacy: The San Ramón Network Against Domestic Violence
On the cool morning of November 25, 2004, Magaly Jara, 34, walked along the dusty lanes of Población La Bandera, a working-class neighborhood in the municipality of San Ramón 20…
Beyond Victims and Aggressors
Cecilia was still in her teens when she accompanied her husband Roberto to California and had a baby. Like millions of other Mexicans, Cecilia and Roberto lacked immigration papers, but…
Feminicide in Guatemala
The last time Claudina communicated with her parents was around 11:45 p.m. on August 12, 2005. Around 2 a.m. on August 13, Zully Moreno, the mother of Claudina’s boyfriend Pedro…
The Other Side of the Ciudad Juárez Femicide Story
For the last dozen years, fronteriz@s (border people) in the Ciudad Juárez-El Paso metropolitan area have heard shocking reports about women-killing, known as femicide (or in…
