WNU #1071: Women Protest Violence and Discrimination

Weekly News Update on the Americas
Issue #1071, March 13, 2011

1. South America: Women’s Day Events Focus on Violence, Poverty
2. Central America: Women Protest Rise in Femicides
3. Mexico: Demos Target Murders of Women Activists
4. Caribbean: Cuban Women Dance, Dominicans March Backwards
5. Puerto Rico: Students’ Aggression Clouds Women’s Day Events
6. Argentina: Mapuche Win One, Lose One in Land Disputes
7. Links to alternative sources on: Latin America, Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti

ISSN#: 1084 922X. Weekly News Update on the Americas covers news from Latin America and the Caribbean, compiled and written from a progressive perspective. It has been published weekly by the Nicaragua Solidarity Network of Greater New York since 1990. For a subscription, write to weeklynewsupdate [at] gmail.com . It is archived at http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com/

*1. South America: Women’s Day Events Focus on Violence, Poverty
South Americans celebrated International Women’s Day on Mar. 8, the holiday’s 100th anniversary, with actions calling attention to the murders of women, along with other forms of violence against women and failures by the region’s governments to provide security from these crimes. [...]

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