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April 28, 2004
Child Brothels
Broken Up in the
Dominican Republic.
Arrested Accomplices
Include Mothers of
Victims.
April 27, 2004
(Added May 2, 2004)
Federal Authorities
Searching a Truck at
an Immigration
Roadblock
Discover 200 People
from Central America
Packed Inside its
Airtight Trailer.
April 27, 2004
(Added May 2, 2004)
Mexican Government
Plans Human Rights
Reforms; Responding
In-Part to Past
Inaction Relating to
the 'Femicide' in
Cuidad Juarez
(City).
April 27, 2004
(Added May 2, 2004)
After 4 Year
Decline,
Undocumented
Immigration from
Mexico is Spiking
as Several Thousand
Migrants a Day Rush
Across the Border...
April 27, 2004
(Added May 2, 2004)
An Immigration Judge
Ordered the
Deportation of U.S.
Mexican Immigrant
Maria Suarez Who Was
Convicted of
Conspiring to Kill a
Man Who Raped and
Terrorized Her for
Five Years After She
Arrived in the
United States as a
Teenager.
April 21, 2004
U.S. Agents find 88
Immigrants from
Ecuador, Mexico,
Guatemala and El
Salvador Imprisoned
in an Unlighted
House by
Extortionist
Traffickers in Los
Angeles, CA.
April 17, 2004
Mexican Activists
Spread Out Across
Cuidad Juarez
(City), Mexico,
Painting
Crosses on Telephone
Poles and Lamp Posts
as a Reminder of the
Over 350 Women Slain
there Since 1994.
April 15, 2004
Latin American woman
Employee of New
Jersey Company
Awarded $500,000 in
Workplace Sexual
Harassment Case.
April 12, 2004
Two Accused of
Trafficking Pregnant
Mexican Women to the
United States;
Coerced Victims to
Give Up Newborns.
April 9, 2004
A Federal Grand Jury
in Los Angeles,
California Has
indicted four people
for smuggling
undocumented Mexican
women and teens into
the United States
and forcing them to
work as prostitutes
at a Los Angeles
brothel.
April 8, 2004
AIDS Stalks Haiti's
Children
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offices of the CIMAC women's news association in
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The Mexico City offices of the women's news agency
CIMAC (Women's Communication and Information) were ransacked on July 28, 2008.
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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
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Aug.
2008 News
(News Added During Aug., 2008)
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
in Volume 26, Issue 47. Indian Country Today
presents it again in appreciation and acknowledgment
of those who work tirelessly toward justice for
Indian girls and women.
''From the oldest to the
youngest, Native women are disrespected and treated
in the most humiliating fashion, living and dying
without justice or the knowledge that their
granddaughters will live free of the violence they
experienced.'' This passage, taken from
testimony by Sacred Circle on the Violence Against
Women Act, helps breathe life into the devastating
statistics at the center of a groundbreaking report
on violence against indigenous women.
Amnesty International's 113-page report, ''Maze of
Injustice -
The Failure to Protect
Indigenous Women from Sexual Violence in the USA,''
released April 24, [2007], asserts that the U.S.
government has ''created a complex maze of tribal,
state and federal jurisdictions that often allows
perpetrators to rape with impunity,'' and that these
crimes are ''compounded by failures at every level
of the justice system.''
American Indian and Alaska Native women are nearly
three times more likely to be raped or sexually
assaulted in their lifetimes. According to the
Department of Justice, nearly 90 percent of the
reported cases of rapes and sexual assault of Native
women are committed by non-Native men. It is a
staggering legacy for women to ''fully expect to be
raped,'' as one elder stated in the report, because
they are Indian.
The report contains interviews with courageous
survivors and advocates, including stories of abuse
and injustice so vivid, the mind does not want to
believe they are true. Each story illustrates why so
many survivors describe their experiences seeking
justice as being raped ''all over again.''
Incompetent medical personnel, non-responsive or
slow-moving law enforcement, conflicting
jurisdictions and underlying racism that affects
court proceedings are common obstacles...
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- Indian Country Today
August 01, 2008
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The Americas
Día Internacional de los
Pueblos Indígenas 2008 (9 de agosto)
OPS: Podemos evitar otro
patrimonio en extinción
International Day of
Indigenous Peoples 2008
PAHO: We can avoid the
extinction of another endangered heritage
Washington, DC - ...On the occasion of International
Day of Indigenous Peoples 2008, the Pan American
Health Organization (PAHO) stated that "recent and
historical processes in the [Latin American] region
have identified different cultures where coexist a
range of relationships that, with regards to the
indigenous in most societies, are asymmetric,
subordinated and conflicted."
Studies and reports prepared by the hemispheric
organization reiterate that most of the 45 million
indigenous people living in the Americas today are
confronted by a growing inequity in health and
access to basic sanitation. Dr. Jose Luis Di Fabio,
Area Manager of Technology and Health Services
Delivery within PAHO, said that illiteracy,
unemployment, lack of land and territory, high rates
of morbidity and mortality from preventable causes,
and limitations on access and utilization of basic
health services, education, housing and others, "are
problems that still affect the majority of
indigenous communities and affect their quality of
life and their health."
"Minimum results"
The International Decade of the World's Indigenous
People (1995-2004) was proclaimed by the UN General
Assembly in 1993 with the purpose and commitment to
strengthen international cooperation to help solve
the problems affecting indigenous peoples in areas
such as human rights, environment, development,
education and health...
In its assessment of the progress in health of
indigenous populations since 1995, PAHO concluded
that the results were "minimal" and that the most
serious problems remained "still unresolved..."
- Pan American Health Organization
August 7, 2008
Guatemala
Celebran Día Nacional e
Internacional de los Pueblos Indígenas
In Celebration of
Indigenous People's Day
The city of Santa Cruz del Quiche - Organizations of
the Quiche Mayan ethnic community have organized a
wide range of activities to celebrate Indigenous
People's Day on August 9, 2008.
Among the organizations that are presenting the
events are the Academy of Mayan Languages of
Guatemala (ALMG), the association Ajb'atz Quiché
network, Defensoría K'iche [Quiche Defense] and the
municipality of the city of Santa Cruz del Quiche.
Quiche liaison Tomas Matias Gutierrez told Cerigua
that there is progress in recognizing the rights of
indigenous peoples in the world. The Indigenous were
previously thought to be an obstacle to development.
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