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TRAnSCENDING HATRED AND SYNDEMICS. Transfemicides of women defenders and the struggle for justice in Mesoamerica between 2020 and 2022.
The report “TRAnSCENDING HATRED AND SYNDEMICS. Transfemicides of women defenders and the struggle for justice in Mesoamerica between 2020 and 2022”, explains the alarming risk context that trans women defenders face in Mesoamerica: From 2020 to today, at least 21 trans women defenders have been victims of transfemicides in this region. Policies imposed by governments, […]
[PRESS RELEASE] Attacks against women defenders on the rise: another Mesoamerican epidemic
Preliminary data from the report by the Mesoamerican Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders not only indicates that attacks against women defenders have doubled between 2015 and 2018, but that this continuous violence increase seems to have set a trend.
OPEN LETTER / Repression and criminalization worsens against social movements and women human rights defenders in Honduras
READ / DOWNLOAD OPEN LETTER CALL TO ACTION Mesoamerica, October 5th, 2017 – Nineteen months after the unpunished murder of Berta Cáceres, we, the Mesoamerican Women Human Rights Defenders Initiative (IM-Defensoras) – representing more than 800 defenders in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua – the National Women Human Rights Defenders Network in Honduras, […]
OPEN LETTER / IM-Defensoras Supports Caravan of Central American Mothers Searching for their Disappeared Sons and Daughters
DOWNLOAD OPEN LETTER Mesoamerica, November 22, 2016 – One more year, and this makes twelve, that the Caravan of Central American Mothers Searching for their Disappeared Sons and Daughters have come to Mexico City to continue their tireless search for their sons and daughters. Backed by the Mesoamerican Migrant Movement, the caravan will leave its […]
#WHRDAlert MESOAMERICA / Inter-American Comission on Human Rights (IACHR) in danger of shutting downf for lack of funds.
The IACHR is a principal, autonomous body of the Organization of American States (OAS) charged with the promotion and protection of Human Rights on the American continent. With its headquarters is in Washington, D.C., it is made up of seven independent member who are elected in an individual capacity. It was created by the OAS […]