On January 30, 2013, G1 reported that a Brazilian couple was arrested for participating in human trafficking. This action comes the on same day as the Federal Police’s announcement of a joint human trafficking investigation with the Spanish National Police. The couple was found by means of an anonymous tip. According to Federal Police, the […]
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MOTHER OF SEXUAL ABUSE VICTIM TAKES MATTERS INTO HER OWN HANDS In Iquitos Peru, a mother discovered that a neighbor, a male age 50 had been having sexual relations with her minor daughter for three years according to cronicaviva.com.pe. The daughter had not reported the incidents to her mother in fear of reprisal from the […]
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Source: huffingtonpost.com– Mexican officials say they have broken up a bizarre cult that allegedly ran a sex-slavery ring among its followers on the U.S. border. Mexico’s National Immigration Institute says 14 foreigners have been detained in the raid on a house near Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Laredo, Texas. Those detained include six Spaniards, […]
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AFP reported that about 400 people protested on Sunday in Tula, in the Mexican state of Hidalgo (center), arguing that there have been 11 disappearances of femicide and six women over the last two months in that region, as authorities recognize only seven homicides against women because gender. “Our city is experiencing a wave of […]
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The bad news is that the main cause of femicide that Amnesty International has identified is government inaction and the resulting impunity—human rights abusers can literally get away with murder in Guatemala, especially when their victims are women. Amnesty found that less than 4 percent of homicide cases result in the conviction of those responsible. […]
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According to actualidad.rt.com, The Chamber of Deputies of Bolivia seeks to stop sexual violence in the country, for which it has submitted a bill that punishes with chemical castration to all abusers. “Every day there are reports of violations. The draft law against violence against women arises castration chemistry. The law has to be tough […]
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According to lapagina.com.sv a 15 year old victim of trafficking was forced to “sell” her virginity at a price of $ 10 at one of the brothels in San Salvador in mid-2011, as reported by the Attorney General’s Office (FGR). Smyrna Salazar, head of the special unit of smuggling and trafficking of FGR, relates the […]
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pachamamaradio.org reported that imprisoned in the penitentiary of women Lampa Jarvis Suasnabar Jackeline Flores 24 years old, who tricked brought ladies from Huancayo to make them work as chaperones in Ananea. Jarvis Suasnabar Jackeline Flores was captured yesterday at the bus terminal and then transferred to Juliaca criminal Lampa, because the Court of Inquiry ordered […]
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noticias.terra.com.mx reported that Nanco Tentle Gregoria was responsible for monitoring women who were forced into prostitution in the streets of Colonia Candelaria, but was captured and sentenced to 15 years in prison after one of the victims managed to make contact with an acquaintance who helped expose the their attackers. The acquaintance of the victim […]
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She was with her baby and was forced into prostitution. She was taken to Chubut with the promise of a job. Proceedings of the Federal Justice of Bariloche. A woman and her baby were rescued from a trafficking network in the city of Esquel Chubut. It was subjected to prostitution and had Tucumán search request. […]
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The numbers of rape in Santa Cruz increased by 27%, ie, there were 141 new cases. According to figures provided by Maria Rosa Valencia, director of the Defense of Children and Adolescents of the Mayor, the Special Victims Unit (SVU) in 2011 there have been 1014 cases, of which 525 correspond to sexual violence, especially […]
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For a staggering that every 16 hours a woman dies violently, the UN Women organization yesterday began an awareness campaign called “16 days of activism against gender violence against women” in Honduras. “Every 16 hours a woman is dying and the perpetrators remain unpunished,” explained the coordinator of UN Women, Rossibel Gomez at the launch […]
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Eluniverso.com reported that three deaths, apparently by suicide occurred in less than 24 hours in the Metropolitan District of Quito and surrounding areas. In all cases the victims were women. The first incident occurred on Sunday in the town of Nanegalito, located in the northwest of Quito. Daysi Tabango Paola, aged 22, had an argument […]
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According to figures released by the National Prosecuting Authority, this type of crime associated with child exploitation meant that between 2007 and 2011 were initiated 479 criminal investigations under this figure. According to statistics held by the Sex Crimes Unit of the National Prosecuting Authority in 2007 were investigated 94 cases of promotion and facilitation […]
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Today is the international day of non-violence against women Only 20.6% of the abused filing the complaint. It is estimated that from January to September, 45,400 were victims of violence The City Council created the Centers of Equity Within a month, this dependence is serving 1250 domestic violence cases. According to Metropolitan Security Observatory, between […]
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The Dominican Republic is a popular destination for many international travelers for its calm sandy beaches and trendy resorts. What many do not know, however, is that the nation is one of many in Latin America where violence against women runs rampant and is on the rise. The problem is exacerbated by the belief that […]
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Debutante balls have been a custom among upper-middle-class and wealthy Brazilian families. They mark a girl’s transition from childhood to adulthood. Home to around 53,000 people, Mangueira is the most symbolic shantytown so far to be occupied by the so-called ‘pacification forces’. Famed for producing legendary samba artists such as Cartola, Nelson Cavaquinho and Carlos […]
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A 19 toll rose today arrested by Chilean police in an operation to dismantle a prostitution of minors between 12 and 17 years. The lawsuit, known as Operation Heidi, started on Thursday night with the arrest of 14 people in raids carried out by about 60 police officers to civilian homes in the center of […]
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Fmbolivia.net reported that Criminal gangs who have committed offenses incurred kidnappings or trafficked in recent weeks are led by women, saw two police chiefs expert in this topic. That is because the women can approach men more easily than potential victims and even generate a kind of friendship with them. Furthermore, when taking actions are […]
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Eltiempo.com reported that…..Police investigators revealed to TIME the existence of a ‘cartel of hotels’ and allow residences where children provide sexual services. Only in the center there are at least 20. “The owners of these places require minors to have sex with them in exchange for being allowed to work there. For one piece, as […]
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Gomez Palacio. – During the month of September, significantly increased cases of sexual abuse perpetrated against minors, as only a special unit for the care of women and children at risk under the Ministry of Protection and Roads in Gomez Palacio, reported nine cases either rape, molestation or lewd touching, ie an average of two […]
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From November 2011 to September 2012, Baja California registered 848 women with cancer, 26 000 248 mammograms that have been made, this puts the State in ninth place nationally in incidence of this condition, despite prevention campaigns carried out to detect it early. José Guadalupe Bustamante Moreno, Secretary of Health in the State, said that […]
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In Ecuador, 1 in 4 women experienced sexual violence, according to a national survey in 2011. According to INEC survey, 70.5% of women surveyed said they suffered violence between 16 and 20 years. According to the Code on Children, sexual abuse is any physical contact of a sexual nature or suggestion to which a child […]
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El Universo reported that for six years come to his office for help minors who became pregnant after being raped. Given the dramatic stories of facing these youth, Beatriz Bordes, a lawyer and president of the Fundación María Guare, which provides psychological and legal assistance to those adolescents should also receive psychological therapies is so […]
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The State shall regulate the acquisition of acid to prevent street attacks. The project is in its final stage in the Senate provides that the Superintendent of Industry and Commerce shall regulate the purchase of acid has been used to attack women. It also proposes that this crime captured achieve the benefit of parole. Read […]
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Quino Yenny Palomino (33) kept the broken arm and facial injuries after his partner Walter Palomino Roque (49) the assaulted at her home in downtown Lima. The assailant was arrested and accused by the prosecution. A woman was left with a broken arm and multiple facial injuries after being assaulted by her partner, an agent […]
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Jornadanet.com reported – The “School of Condors” of Bolivia, military training center for elite, graduated on Friday, the first group of female officers and sergeants as experts in planning and conducting military operations, officials said. The country’s president, Evo Morales, who attended the graduation ceremony of the school, located near the border with Argentina, said […]
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Human trafficking, nationally, almost always accompanied by sexual exploitation. So says the study entitled ‘The state of human trafficking in Ecuador’. This was done by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). On page 45 of the document states that “the smuggling of easy sex” relates to slavery. “In Ecuador, the places of […]
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According to nacion.cl the Police Special Investigations Brigade (BIPE) of the PDI arrested two men accused of assaulting women, which is on a motorcycle in the communes of Maipú and Cerrillos. According to records, the individuals were known as “the bikers (Los Motoqueros)” and roamed the streets looking for victims of these areas alone, who […]
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Prostituted women in the city are no exception to the general law: from the countries bordering the provinces of NOA, suburbs. Girls are often very young and very poor, recruited with the promise of a good job. But end up prisoners of a network, first, subject to a “soft” brutal, a cocktail consisting of rape, […]
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Fernando Flores Oceguera warned that criminal gangs trafficking practiced in the eastern part of the city so far this year there is a record of at least a dozen cases . As part of the commemoration of the Day of the Disappeared (held with a Mass in the new Cathedral of Tijuana), Fernando Oceguera, said […]
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According to desinformemonos.org, a recent conference in Mexico reported increased trafficking with the arrival of soldiers and federal police to Ciudad Juarez, forced and child prostitution in the tourism sector, in places like Acapulco, Puerto Vallarta and the Riviera Maya, the transfer of women victims of trafficking in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Reynosa, Tamaulipas, on condition […]
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The Peruvian Minister of Women and Vulnerable Populations, Ana Jara, expressed his disapproval of the action of a mother of 17 who took his young daughter to a local clandestine Lima to put a “piercing” in the eyebrow. The official said that an event like this can bring to women “up to six years in […]
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The Superintendency of Notaries and Registration, said divorces in Colombia during the first half of 2012 increased by 26.2 percent, according to a report reflecting the 872 records of notaries in the country. The Superintendent, Jorge Enrique Garcia Velez, there have been breakthroughs in the 8694 period, while in the first half of 2011 there […]
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According to Montaño, cases culminating in a judgment are not representative. He stressed that the statistics “show that impunity abounds. This impunity is becoming an incentive for offenders to continue “. The research revealed that 34 percent of reported sexual violence registered in Cercado not pass the police report, the 27 was rejected by prosecutors, […]
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Ahe charged the ‘clients’ $ 100 and gave the girls only 200 pesos. A 30 year old woman was arrested with two minors, after having been domiciled in the colony Margarita Maza de Juárez, to have sex with a man. The detainee by the name of Sara Cruz Molina, residing in street R. Astolfo Cardenas […]
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Otavalo. Several cases of domestic violence are recorded daily in the women’s police station and the police, 60 percent of these belong to the rural sector. Statistics. Marianita Pijal, curator of Women reported that 48 complaints were recorded monthly from family violence. He said that many times the children, especially those under age often endure […]
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On average, including men and women, 6 in 10 admits having put ‘horns’.Six in ten Colombians admitted being unfaithful at least once in their lives, according to a survey done on the subject for the time in 13 cities by the firm Datexco. And although this is already quite impressive, and would have to add […]
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Allegations of domestic violence increase in police stations. In Guayaquil, the Commissioner of women and family receive approximately 50 cases per day. The most recent case was given in Guayaquil, where a murderer with iron man his wife and then commit suicide.
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Ciudad del Este. Regional Agency. – The International Organization for Migration has been working on a pilot project on Trafficking in Children and Adolescents in South American countries. For the effect produced a discussion paper in which it is stated that, “servile marriage is another form of exploitation that takes place in the domestic sphere, […]
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The Mexican Army has expanded to 17 the number of military schools in which women can enter, for a total of 12 000 female elements. This positions the female population with an 8 percent stake in more than 180,000 uniformed military forces that exist in the country. Victor Manuel Aguilar Ramirez, director of the Regional […]
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The female condom, implant and monthly injection was officially incorporated by the Ministry of Health (MoH) in the products delivered free to the population of reproductive age. The launch of such contraceptive methods was carried yesterday in the International Day of Family Planning, by the Deputy Health Minister Jose del Carmen Sara, in the main […]
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Concerned that in Coahuila year 300 women are killed by cancer about cervical and breast cancer, the health sector in the states of Coahuila, Durango and Zacatecas, implemented over the next six months an online course for those who perform such reviews. Marco Antonio Ruiz PRADIS, Director of Prevention of Coahuila Secretariat of Health, said […]
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The Fourth Criminal Judge in Bucaramanga, with functions of knowledge, sentenced to 27 years in prison and a fine of 94 million pesos to David Ruiz Mosquera, who attacked with acid Nubia Patricia Carreño and minor daughter, who left with permanent deformity on face and body. Ruiz Mosquera was found responsible for willful injury in […]
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The specialist in this issue of gender violence, Borselino Silvia said that the attacks against women are becoming more serious and that the 20 to 30 years is what has most affected numerically. Speaking to THE LIBERAL, the university professor said that “the forms of gender violence are taking a much more bloody and brutal, […]
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The Daily Women’s Collective in Montevideo, Uruguay, reported that the situation is alarming labor exploitation in which domestic workers are doing their work at a residence in Carrasco. We have documented situations of rights violations experienced by dozens of women migrants in our country. In recent months detected a pattern of behavior to the detriment […]
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There were 64 murders in the first six months of 2012, of which 43 cases are made of femicide, the report said Manuela Observatory Center for Information and Development of Women (ICW). Of the 43 cases of femicide registered in the country, 12 cases occurred in the department of Cochabamba, 10 in the municipality of […]
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Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas. – Chiapas Justice under federal searches are missing for 11 women and last year in the coastal area but mainly in the border of the entity. Girls and females of 30 years, have not yet been located. According to data from the Social would try for Victims of Crime (Provictima) obtained in […]
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A woman had brought three young Colombian Ecuador to work in prostitution. Police specializing in Children and Adolescents (Dinapen), arrested the accused of trafficking. According to a television station Teleamazonas, young Colombian (including a 14 years old) were offered a job in our country, but they were not told it was in nightclubs. Read Article
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Mexico: Central American Women forced into prostitution According to the Migrant State Government Office, between 2011 and 2012 there was an increase in migratory flow of Central American women into Veracruz. Crimes and sexual offences against migrant women increased in the past year. There are criminal gangs that kidnap rape and then force Central American […]
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The leader of the sex workers in the state, Monica Mendoza, said it has identified so-called ‘pimps’, by periodicity of Queretaro take at least 10 underage women tricked, for sexual exploitation in other entities. Assumed that human trafficking remains a problem today in the country and particularly in the state, increasingly growing. For proof, he […]
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Bolivia is the new route for the movement of people, preferably young, said the special prosecutor in Paraguay Trafficking, Teresa Martinez, during an international seminar. The representative of the Public Ministry said they have evidence that in the city of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Paraguay some 250 are sexually exploited in nightclubs. He said that September […]
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A Bolivian teenager 16 years appeared yesterday in the Special Force to Fight Crime to report that for two years was the victim of sexual and labor exploitation in Brazil and who escaped with the help of her family. According to them, have other children in the same condition. The child was carried to the […]
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Individual accused of prostituting his Guatemalan wife in Mexico An individual with the name of Daniel Rivera Flores AKA “Dany” was accused of prostituting his Guatemalan wife in different parts of Mexico. Daniel Rivera married the underage victim taking her to Zacatelco, Tlaxcala and other states in Mexico where he forced her into prostitution. He […]
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Mexico: Woman victim survivor of sexual torture has received violent threats A Chilean woman(Valentina Palma) accusing officers for being responsible of sexual torture on 2006 receives a letter that has threatening messages directed towards her. Valentina Palma Novoa was one of the 49 female victims that were detained and raped by 26 state and federal […]
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Chiapas reports between 10-12 missing children every six months according to the Right Protection of Women Program. Many of these children end up being transported to other countries or even Central America. Children are mostly abducted for illegal adoption purposes and or they are forced into sexual and labor exploitation. Read Article
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In Mexico, teenage girls are now being used as informants, mules, killers and sexual slaves by drug cartels. According to the Regional Coalition Against Trafficking in Women and Girls in Latin America, in the past year 350 teenage girls between the ages 12 and 16 were victims of these crimes. Read Article
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Florence. In the last hours the National Police arrested a woman who is required by court order for the offense of incitement to prostitution, the case was reported in January 2010 when a teenager was found inside a brothel exercising prostitution with her mother. According conviction woman was sentenced to 160 months in prison for […]
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From January to date anti-crime force (FELCC) rescued 15 girls clandestine brothels in the city center and captured two clans responsible for recruiting them. The Attorney and the Mayor announced operations against these illegal businesses. At least about 15 girls were rescued. We recently had nine cases of children on Figueroa Street and Santa Cruz, […]
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According to experts the economic crisis, the unemployment and violence have increased the stress in families causing violence for children at their homes. Many children have been exposed to violence because of the violence and even death of their caregivers. In Mexico there are more than 40 thousand orphan mistreated children due to violence in […]
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According to the International Labor Organization there are more than 3 million minors illegally employed in Mexico. Mexico´s labor laws state clearly the minimum working age is 14 years, however there are many children working to help their parents. The State is still attempting to define the boundaries between child exploitation and family support. Read […]
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Mexico: 12 members of a human trafficking group were sentenced 617 years in Jail A group of 12 members of a human trafficking group “Leones” were sentenced to 617 years and payment of 12 million 340 thousand and 905 pesos . The Attorney General demonstrated the involvement of the group of 12 members in crimes […]
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Mexico: A man abuses his wife and burns his son in Chihuahua On June 30th a drunken citizen of Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua physically abused his wife and burned his son in the neighborhood of Vallarta Espansion. At about 10:50 pm as a humble woman heated soup in a fire pit, for his 2 year […]
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At least 3 million 14 thousand 800 children work daily in Mexico Mexico has at least 3 million 14thousand 800 children between five and 17 years old working daily. According to the United Nations Children Fund approximately half of the working children are being exposed to hazardous environments including drugs and prostitution activities. Read Article
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In the past 11 years the rate of teenage mothers in Peru remains almost unchanged at 13%, and the most frequent cases occur in the forest regions, according to the National Population and Family Health (Endes) on 2011 National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI) . The study also reveals that chronic malnutrition in children […]
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On May 28th, a woman known as of Patricia Antuna Zuniga was found dead underneath a bridge at the Nazas neighborhood in Durango. The 39 year-old woman’s body was found with traces of strangulation at about 3:30am by State Attorney General. Agencies such as the Homicide Division Detectives and Attorney General staff will continue to […]
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Minors who are abused increased from 40 to 42% in the last 21 years and there is almost double of teenage mothers 15 years ago. Meanwhile, mortality rates, child labor and improved access to education for this sector of the population, the report “State of the rights of children and adolescents in Ecuador 1990-2011”. According […]
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Interviews with residents concerning teenage pregnancy in Cuenca Ecuador – Subtitled
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Arturo Santamaría, researcher at the Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, has written a book that reveals women are increasingly moving into leadership positions within Mexican drug cartels, according to Noticias 24. Because death statistics among men in drug-related incidents have risen over recent years, women have been given greater opportunity to fill roles formerly reserved for […]
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Security features of the state late Saturday found the body of a woman in this city. Hours apart and at another point in the city, two women were injured by bullets. With the death rises to thirty-four the number of women who have been killed this year. State Ministerial Police reported that on the streets […]
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Last year, 1168 people passed legal exams for alleged attacks on the honor. According to police, after Lima, the White City tops the list of sexual insults. The White City (Arequipa) is considered by the Police as the second city in the country after Lima, where most number of violations. So far this year, about […]
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Violence and Sexual Abuse on the Rise for Girls in Mexico Children’s homicides have climbed 30% in one year in Mexico, according to reports from NSS Oaxaca. Kidnapping and sexual exploitation of young girls is also one the rise as a result of narcotrafficking and gang activity concentrated in the northern states. Read Article
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Maternal and Nutrimami Maternavit three multivitamins for pregnant women, may be issued only with medical recipe, announced the director of the Autonomous Service of Sanitary Control, Ministry of Health, Divis Antunez. These products are no longer considered food supplements, but medicinal. Said the official who is an administrative process related to product registration, because they […]
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GUATEMALA CITY – One of these actions took place in the “Super Border Bar” located at the 4 Street 20-57, Zone 6, where seven women freed from El Salvador and Honduras. For the development of operating the Interior Ministry required 15 days of planning and intelligence research. As announced on the portfolio manager, Mauricio López […]
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They are the General Directorate of Internal Investigations, Forensics and that of Instruction. They are on the second line of senior officials of the dome of the institution. Three women commissioners of the Federal Police inspectors were appointed heads of three of the most important general directions of force, and today make up the second […]
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The 1215 killings of women in 2011 are clear evidence of the difficult and worrying situation facing the female gender in Colombia. This is a very negative balance, even though last year there were 229 fewer crimes than in 2010, as shown in a report released by the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic […]
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Honduras is just days away from approving an extremist law that would put women in prison for using the morning-after pill, even after being raped! We can stop this law and give women back the chance to prevent unwanted pregnancy. Some Congress members agree that this law – which would also jail doctors or anyone […]
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About 450 women and 150 transgender prostitutes in Bogota will have the opportunity to find new alternative sources of income and change your lifestyle, with a program that will launch the District. It is aimed at people aged 18 to 35 who reside in the Libertadores (San Cristobal), Danube Park Entrenubes (Usme), areas of western […]
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A total of 40 cases of equal numbers of women reported missing in the Central Area Office, from 1993 to March 2012, remain in force and under investigation. Of that number of inquiries, 32 were women residing in the city of Chihuahua, and that to date have not been located by family and friends. The […]
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Only a small proportion of women in the region whose rights are undermined achieve full access to justice, says a collective of women’s organisations from eight countries of Latin America. “It’s not just a question of litigation costs or of bringing an issue to court, but of gaining access to good judicial service, in which […]
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After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, stories of the disaster dominated international news media. Journalists rushed to report on the wreckage. Photographers scrambled for shots of the rubble. Aid agencies struggled to overcome obstacles to sending humanitarian aid. As an international women’s human rights organization that works in partnership with local women, we at MADRE […]
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Over six years in Puebla nearly tripled the number of intentional homicide of women without that, say experts and scholars, government policies are introduced to stop the problem. In a comparison between the first years of PRI government of Mario Marin and the first PAN Rafael Moreno Valle was an increase in crime by 172 […]
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There was always violence but not to the extent that is now,” he stated to the NATION Ada Beatriz Rico, president of La Casa del Encuentro, after confirming that there was an increase after the death of Taddei. According to statistics cited by the institution in Argentina, more than 200 women are murdered each year. […]
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So far this year, the National Police has detected 120 victims of sexual and labor exploitation in the country and, of these, 117 are women, accounting for 94.74%. Moreover, in the first three months of the year there were 46 reports of trafficking in persons in all Peru: 37 of them in the capital and […]
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A child under 12 years gave birth to a baby prematurely in the maternity of Mar del Plata and after initiation of an investigation, was arrested the girl’s stepfather, accused of “” sexual intercourse with the situation exacerbated by coexistence. ” The birth occurred on 12 March, but recently became known today as judicial officers […]
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A gunman killed Wednesday afternoon in urban Sunna Amagá, Southwestern Antioquia, Joana Leidy Moncada, 23 years old. The girl, who was resident in the village Station of Angelopolis, was attacked in the San Fernando de Amagá, by a man captured by police after. The deceased will be buried Thursday in the cemetery of Amaga. In […]
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Mexico: Prostitution gang dismantled in Guanajuato The Mexican Federal police and the Navy dismantled a gang dedicated to the prostitution of girls and in Leon, Guanajuato on March 24th. According to officials there were 15 detainees that are linked to be members of the zetas cartel. Four people were freed including a 12 year old […]
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Mexico: Minor is rescued from prostitution Networks On March 25th Juarez, Chihuahua police department detained three people, two females and one male, accused of forcing a minor into child prostitution. The victim was found after authorities stopped Rodolfo Lopez driving a green ford, as a result of a traffic violation. Read Article
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Mexico: In Chihuahua there has been 60 Murdered Women this Year While traffickers continue to operate in Chihuahua the number of women murdered continues to increase. So far in 2012 60 women have been murdered. The failure of the authorities to take action has contibuted to the escalation of murders, according to the activist Norma […]
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The murder cases of women in Durango have increased from 9 cases reported in 2007 to 55 cases reported last year. The Center for the Advancement of Women stated that the violence against women has increased because of the lack of care from government agencies towards drug trafficking female victims. Read Article
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Guachochi, Chihuahua government officials will attend the International Organization on Human Rights meeting in Washington addressing the high levels of violence in the state. One important topic they will address is the area of attention of violent crimes against women. Read Article
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In Ecuador, 6 in 10 women have experienced some form of domestic violence, Morona Santiago, Tungurahua and Pichincha provinces are the highest rates of domestic violence recorded in the country, 9 out of 10 divorced women in Ecuador have experienced one of the four forms of violence: psychological, physical, sexual or proprietary. Read Article
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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic. – Family violence continues to reach outrageous numbers and moving to the point that in the past 11 years, some 2 000 95 women, mostly mothers of families have been brutally murdered in the Dominican Republic and more than 7 000 400 children orphaned. Similarly, 698 men have taken their lives […]
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Cuba police arrested Sunday at fifty activists of the opposition group Ladies in White, in two separate operations, eight days before the arrival of Pope Benedict XVI to the island, while dissent is increasing its protests. Twenty Ladies in White were arrested as they marched after noon after attending Mass in the parish of Santa […]
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Mexico: Female Abduction Increases in Mexico The Rincon Couple traveled to Mexico City searching for their kidnaped daughter that disappeared on Ciudad Juarez in May 2009. Esmeralda, 14 years old, is just one of the dozens of missing women in Juarez. The Cases of abducted women in Mexico, who are forced into prostitution has grown […]
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Mexico: Exile of a Woman Promoting the Safety of Women in Chihuahua Marisela Ortiz was obligated to leave her house in Chihuahua, taking her family with her on March 10, 2010. She was part of a women activist group called “Hijas de Regreso a Casa” favoring the protection of women in the country. She had […]
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The civil organization “Pro Human Rights”, requested the intervention of the Human Rights Commission of the State of Mexico (CODHEM) to assist in an investigation into allegations of violations, assaults and attacks on workers who move in taxis Toluca-Tenango line. According to Monica Hurtado, a representative of the NGO “monitors” the area, said that so […]
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