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,…