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 CIP Americas Program chronicles and analyzes U.S. and Mexican news reports on the US-backed War on Drugs in Mexico and the struggle in Mexico to strengthen the rule of law, justice and protection of human rights. Relevant political developments in both countries are also covered.
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