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Hundreds Take to the Streets of Puerto Rico to Protest Two Femicides

Jhoni Jackson — Mon, 03 May 2021 18:17:03 +0000

This weekend, two more women were added to Puerto Rico’s ever-growing list of femicides. Andrea Ruiz Costas, 35, was discovered on April 30, her lifeless body half burned; Keishla Rodríguez Ortiz, 27, reported missing days earlier, was found floating Saturday afternoon (May 1) in the San José Lagoon over which San Juan’s Teodoro Moscoso Bridge

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“Latin America’s Other Pandemic”: A Spike in Domestic Violence Hotline Calls Due to Shelter-In-Place

Julyssa Lopez — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 18:52:34 +0000

The global approach to combating the spread of the coronavirus has been to urge social distancing and shelter-in-place precautions, which means that people are confined indoors for the foreseeable future. As world economies reel and death counts soar as a result of such drastic measures, one aspect of the pandemic that might be overlooked is

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Why 80,000 Mexican Women & Allies Protested on International Women’s Day

Ecleen Luzmila Caraballo — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 16:26:03 +0000

Over 1,000 women were killed in Mexico last year, according to official government reports. Less than three months into 2020, that statistic amounts to almost 100. Though the issue of violence against women has been prevalent for decades, there has been a particularly alarming rise in femicides over the last five years. Stories like that

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“Ni Una Más”: Hundreds Demand Justice for Isabel Cabanillas and Countless Other Femicide Victims

Ecleen Luzmila Caraballo — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 23:16:50 +0000

Isabel Cabanillas, a 26-year-old designer, artist and women’s rights activist in Mexico, was brutally killed on January 18 in Juárez by way of a bullet to the head. Her death made waves around the country and uprooted dormant fury over countless murders in the notoriously violent city. In 2019, María Salguero designed a map that

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David Ortiz Calls for an End to Femicides During the Premios Soberano

Adriana Cataño — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:21:00 +0000

When David Ortiz, aka Big Papi, took the stage at the Dominican Republic’s Premios Soberano, he playfully introduced himself to an audience that’s likely more than familiar with his accomplishments. But he quickly turned the attention from himself by delivering a sobering message about the violence that many women in the DR face. Before announcing

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