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Native Americas
Sexual violence
against indigenous women is discussed at the United
Nations
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Indian Country
May 18,
2007
Added May 28, 2007
Mexico
En medio del
reclamo ciudadano para el retiro de las fuerzas
militares del estado de Veracruz, surgen nuevos
incidentes en la zona serrana de Zongolica: hombres
vestidos de negro, encapuchados y armados circulan a
bordo de camionetas en comunidades indígenas, dos de
ellos intentaron plagiar a una maestra rural en el
municipio de Mixtla de Altamirano, la intervención
de vecinos y familiares evitaron un incidente mayor.
In the
midsts of public demands that Mexico remove military
occupation from the state of Veracruz, new incidents
of crimes against indigenous women by troops
continue to be reported. In the mountainous
region of Zongolica, two armed men dressed in black,
patrolling indigenous communities in pickup trucks,
recently attempted to kidnap a female teacher in the
town of Mixtla Alta-mirano. Family and
neighbors intervened to rescue the victim.
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CIMAC Noticias
News for Women
Mexico City
May 25,
2007
Added May 28, 2007
California, USA
San Ysidro – A
woman wanted in Mexico for her possible role in the
rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl was turned
over to Mexican law enforcement officials here today
following her arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforce-ment (ICE) officers in Anaheim, California.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
May 18, 2007
Added May 28, 2007
California, USA
El Paso - U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforce-ment (ICE) special
agents have arrested and placed into deportation
proceedings Juan Carlos Aguilar. In May 2004,
Aguilar exposed himself to two sisters, ages 11 and
6, as they were walking home from school.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
May 18, 2007
Added May 28, 2007
Colorado, USA
Denver – The U.S.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
announced today that it has settled a discrimination
lawsuit against Professional Transit Management.
Several employees, including super-visors, routinely
used egregious ethnic slurs for African Americans,
Hispanics, and Asians in the workplace. On one
occasion, a co-worker commented that it should not
be against the law to shoot Mexican men, women and
children or to shoot African Americans and Chinese
people.
- U.E. EEOC
May 17, 2007
Added May 28, 2007
Idaho, USA
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
May 3, 2007
Added May 28, 2007
California, USA
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
May 1, 2007
Added May 28, 2007
California, USA
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
May 1, 2007
Added May 2, 2007
Texas, USA
Detained Central American
Migrant Children Sexually Abused at Shelter
Indagan manoseo
sexual contra niños indocumentados
- DiariosRumbo.com
April 27,
2007
South Texas Child
Immigrant Shelter Closed; Sexual Abuse By Staff
Member Alleged
- CBS News
April 14,
2007
Added May 2, 2007
Mexico
Rape and murder of 73 year
old Native woman by Mexican Army soldiers remains
unpunished
El coordinador de
asuntos indígenas del Comité Directivo Nacional del
PRD, Carlos Mezhua, y diputados federales dieron a
conocer que buscarán que la muerte de la señora
nahua de Soledad Atzompa, Ernestina Ascencio se
investigue a fondo.
The
coordinator for Indigenous affairs for Mexico's
Demo-cratic Revolution Party, Carlos Mezhua, and
other congressional members are demanding that the
death of [73 year old] Ernestina Ascencio, a member
of the Nahua tribe, be fully investigated.
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CIMAC Noticias
News for Women
Mexico City
April 26,
2007
In Mexico
violence against poor, indigenous women is commonly
left unpunished by the authorities. According to
Amnesty International since the mid 1990s (in the
states of Guerrero, Chiapas and Oaxaca) there have
been at least 60 documented acts of sexual
aggression against women reportedly committed by
military [men].
On Feb.
25 Mrs. Ernestina Ascension Rosario, a 73-year-old
indigenous woman living in Soledad Atzompa
municipality, was beaten, gagged, tied and raped,
allegedly by a group of Mexican army soldiers. She
was taken barely alive to Rio Blanco regional
hospital but died afterwards. Eyewitness say between
four and 11 soldiers committed the crime.
- Ohmy News
April 27,
2007
LibertadLatina
Note:
Mexico's new president,
Felipe Calderon, openly stated that
Ernestina Ascension Rosario
died of natural causes, directly contradicting the
autopsy report.
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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
Libertad
Latina
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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2008 News
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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
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 th | |
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