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Added March 21, 2004
A letter from
Juarez: Juárez looks
to me like the war
zones I know -
...Chechnya, Kosovo,
Bosnia. There is the
same casualization
of violence, the
same sense of
despair, the same
blurred line between
right and wrong...
Added March 19, 2004
U.S. State Dept.
representative
visits Japan,
insists on more
action to end women
and girl trafficking
(including the
enslavement of
large numbers of
female victims from
Colombia).
Added March 19, 2004
Yet another woman
found murdered in
Ciudad Juarez,
Mexico.
Amnesty's
victim total: 407.
March 15, 2004
Save the Children
report identifies 4
child prostitution
rings in Peru.
One criminal outfit
offers tour
"packages" to
domestic and foreign
tourists that
included child
prostitution.
March 11, 2004
Spanish reporter
infiltrates sex
trafficking gang,
writes book...
Made deal to
purchase 6
trafficked underage
Mexican girls for
$31,000 each.
March 11, 2004
U.S Department of
Health and Human
Services (HHS)
announces
anti-trafficking
hotline, web site
and public awareness
effort.
Added March 10, 2004
Native Canadians
Seek Healing from
School Sex Abuse.
-New York Times
Added March 10, 2004
Bolivia - Poverty
drives mothers to
put their 5 year old
children to work
part-time in
brothels.
"They treat it like
day care" U.S.
Intern says.
March 8, 2004
International
Women's Day 2004
1)
UNICEF Focus on
Women and HIV/AIDS
2)
UNIFEM Message
3)
IOM - Migrant Women
Mobilizing Against
HIV/AIDS
4)
Amnesty USA - Stop
Violence Against
Women
Added March 5, 2004
1)
A Child trafficking
victim survivor's
group: "life
support"
launches web site.
2)
Statement by
life support
denouncing official
inaction to shut
down the San Diego,
California child
rape camps, starts
letter writing
campaign.
Added March 7, 2004
3)
Group life
support's
statement affirming
Peter Landesman's
New York Times
article on Mexico to
U.S. child sex
trafficking.
4)
Statement by
life support
critiquing
Slate.com's analysis
of NY Times article.
5)
On the Rodi Alvarado
asylum case
currently before
U.S. Attorney
General John
Ashcroft. -
life support.
Added March 5, 2004
U.S. FBI - Justice
served in case of
Texas sex slaves.
Added March 5, 2004
Amnesty USA site
focuses on epidemic
of female murders in
Juarez, Mexico.
Español/English
Added March 5, 2004
Lebanese head of
Cancun, Mexico child
porn ring arrested
in Arizona.
Added March 5, 2004
New UNICEF report
released: Ensuring
the Rights of
Indigenous Children.
English/Español/Français
March 2, 2004
American pedophile
to receive light
sentence for child
abuse in Nicaragua
March 1, 2004
First Congressional
briefing on
comercial sexual
exploitation of
youth in the U.S.
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Vandalized office at CIMAC
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Our new
special section on the ransacking of the
offices of the CIMAC women's news association in
Mexico City
The Mexico City offices of the women's news agency
CIMAC (Women's Communication and Information) were ransacked on July 28, 2008.
The level of vandalism and theft of document archives leads activists to
believe that this was an act of intimidation and retaliation against CIMAC for
its effective work in defense of women's rights.
We at
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stand 100% in solidarity
with CIMAC.
We encourage
everyone to express their support for CIMAC.
Please contact:
Lucía Lagunes Huerta,
General Director, CIMAC
Let's express our
solidarity with the journalists of CIMAC!
Silence is also violence!
End impunity now!
- Chuck Goolsby
Libertad Latina
August 5 , 2008
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Read our new section
on Tapachula
Mexico
The city of
Tapachula, near Mexico's border with Guatemala,
is one of the largest and most lawless child sex trafficking markets in all of Latin America.
Our new news section tracks events related to
this hell-on-earth, where over half of the estimated 21,000 sex slaves and other
sex workers are underage, and where especially migrant women
and
girls
from
Central and South America, who seek to migrate to the United States, have their
freedom taken from them, to become a money-making commodity for gangs of
violent criminals.
A 2007 study by the international organization
ECPAT
[End Child Prostitution and Trafficking]...
revealed that over 21,000
Central Americans, mostly children, are prostituted
in 1,552 bars and brothels in Tapachula.
- Chuck Goolsby
Libertad Latina
August
9, 2008
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The Americas
Incredible injustice for
indigenous women
Editor's note: The
following was named Best Editorial of 2007 by the
Native American Journalists Association at its
annual awards banquet July 26.
It was originally published
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