Mexican Women March for Rights, Mourn Slain Activists - IPS ipsnews.net: "'Women are not spoils of war. Stop the femicides (gender-based murders of women)!' read one of the placards carried at a march against violence Apr. 6 in Mexico City and a score of other cities in this Latin American country.
'The country is facing a crisis, the worst in 30 years or more, and the issue of public safety is sweeping everything else aside,' one of the country's best-known women's organisers, Emilienne de León, the head of the Simone de Beauvoir Leadership Institute, told IPS. She said the situation 'keeps invisible the areas where women are making headway, as well as those where they are definitely experiencing setbacks.'"
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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