Fifteen brave Guatemalan women from the indigenous q'eqchí people testified before the High Risk Court in Guat

Margarita Lopez begins to speak about the horrible events that marked the end of her daughter's life in a low, even t

“In the garrison they had rooms where they would rape us; sometimes there were three, four or five soldiers,&rd

“A few years ago, our people, the people you can see around you, we began to realize what was happening,”

Women are being murdered in Honduras -- already deemed the world's deadliest country by the United Nations -- at a sk

The Mexican authorities have failed to protect women from increasing levels of violence and discrimination or to ensu

The best places for women to live in Latin America and the Caribbean are Barbados and Cuba, according to a May report

One generally overlooked feature of the Guatemalan government and military's 36-year (1960-96) genocidal counterinsur

Access to justice for women who suffer sexual violence in Central America and southern Mexico remains limited despite

Endless economic and military interference by the U-S and former European colonial powers has resulted in years and y

“Violence associated with the ‘war on drugs' and organized crime, which includes government corruption in

The involvement of women in anti-war actions and in support of peace activism worldwide is a critical part of modern

The 36 year long civil war (1960-1996) that ravaged Guatemala, left more than 200,000 people dead and at least 100,00

In 2008, the Guatemalan parliament passed a law against ‘femicide' (even though it's a word you won't find in a

A forum on violence against women will be held in Nicaragua on Friday, after the recent approval of a comprehensive l

Would the world be more peaceful if women were in charge?

“Everything changed when the soldiers arrived,” said Rosa, an Indigenous Ixil woman living in the Quich&e

The relentless wave of femicides in Guatemala, which has one of the highest female murder rates in the world, has pro

The bodies of three women who appeared to have been tortured were found inside a ramshackle dwelling east of San Salv