Latin
America: How to stop violence against women?
Rallies,
demonstrations in the streets, conferences, cultural
events - yesterday's International Women's Day
commemorations around the world took many different
forms. In Latin America, women's-rights activists and
their supporters called special attention to various
forms of violence against women that continue to prevail
in many countries in the region.
18-3-2007
American guilty in Nicaragua
Police
fired rubber bullets near an angry mob protesting
outside a tin-roofed courthouse here Friday, but the
crowd got what it wanted hours later when a US citizen
was convicted of murder. An adventurer turned
businessman, Eric Volz, 27, and a Nicaraguan
co-defendant were found guilty of strangling and raping
Volz's ex-girlfriend Doris Ivania Jiménez, 25.
18-3-2007
Honduras: Lawlessness in US against human trafficking creates victims
Several years ago, a young woman showed
up at the offices of a social-services agency in
Albuquerque with a horrifying story. Her parents
in her native Honduras had sold her to an American
man from New Mexico. 18-3-2007