South America
| No Protection, No Justice. [Guatemala] The brutal sexual violence inflicted on Marķa Isabel following her abduction and before her murder in 2001 is a characteristic common to many of the hundreds of killings of women and girls that have been reported in Guatemala in recent years. |
| Women Are Safer on the Street than at Home. [Brazil] In Brazil, every 15 seconds, a woman suffers violence in the home. Yet, Brazil is the only Latin American country that does not have a specific law regarding domestic violence. |
| Oxfam Partner Wins Peru’s National Award for Women. [Peru] On International Women’s Day the government of Peru awarded the president of Oxfam America’s partner organization FEMUCAY the “2005 Women’s Order of Merit,” citing “her work in favor of communities and the promotion of gender equity.” |
| Women in Chilean Society. [Chile] The role of women in Chile has been changing over time. My experience in Chile was that it is a male dominated society with women still struggling to gain equality in the workplace and in general. |
| Municipalities of
Quito and Cuenca, Andean Women and Family Foundation (FUNDAMYF), Women
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| Women's Bodies Used as a Battleground. [Colombia] By sowing terror, exploiting and manipulating women for military gain, armed groups in Colombia have turned women’s bodies into a battleground. |
| Visit to Women's Bank Project. [Venezuela] In the south-eastern city of Puerto Ordaz, a group of participants visited the Banmujer or Women s Bank. |
| Women in Action. [Bolivia] SGI-Bolivia's women's division has formed a Women's Peace Committee to promote peace and education through activities such as education seminars in communities throughout the country. They held a peace summit in 2001, bringing together 1,000 women active in various fields to a meeting that will be remembered as the starting point of a great peace movement led by Bolivian women. |