Painful facts
Registry of Aggressions against Mesoamerican Women Human Rights Defenders: June 2022 – Preliminary monthly data for El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua.
June 2022: 209 aggressions against 54 women defenders. In June, transgender woman defender Camila Bolocco was murdered in Mexico. During this month, there was an increase in attacks against groups of women defenders and their organizations, representing 32% of the total (compared to 12% in the previous month). The highest number of attacks in June […]
Registry of Aggressions against Mesoamerican Women Human Rights Defenders: May 2022 – Preliminary monthly data for El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua.
May 2022: 342 aggressions against 73 WHRDs. One defender was killed: Cecilia Monzón López in San Pedro Cholula, Puebla, México. The women defenders experiencing the most attacks were those who work for the right to defend land and territory (32%), the right of women to a violence-free life (20%) and women’s rights (15%). The State […]
Registry of Aggressions against Mesoamerican Women Human Rights Defenders: April 2022 – Preliminary monthly data for El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua.
April 2022: 401 forms of aggression against 104 women human rights defenders 61% individual / 32% collective / 7% organizations The main attacks have been: Harassment (70) Psychological violence (40) Surveillance, monitoring of practices and stalking in the daily life of the defender (38) Physical violence (33) The defenders under heaviest attack were those who […]