Guatemalan President Otto Perez announced the creation of a new task force to combat the countrys high rate of murders of women.
Media representations of women caught up Mexicos drug conflict are often two-dimensional, resorting to the dichotomy of portraying women either as helpless victims or powerful drug queens.…
Many female migrants from Mexico to the U.S. have been displaced by violence, often linked to organized crime, with Mexican women targeted by sex traffickers, gender-based killings, and often recruited…
A Mexican task force for crimes against women is investigating the whereabouts of some 525 women and female adolescents in the country, many of whom are thought to be victims…
A rise in brutal killings of women, known as femicides, in El Salvador can be blamed on various factors, from gender inequality to organized crime to a society hollowed out…
While focus continues on the dangers to migrants traveling north in Mexico, a new phenomenon appeared in the south: forced prostitution of young migrant women. The culprits, however, may be…
With an estimated 35,000 sexually exploited minors in Colombia, child prostitution is a widespread and lucrative industry. And, as symbolized by the sentencing last year of an Italian pedophile, the…
The burned bodies of three women were found dumped by a road outside Guatemalas capital Wednesday. The country has one of the highest rates of female homicides in Latin America,…