SALUD: Domestic Violence Awareness Month Demonstrates the Importance of Resources

October has been Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Domestic violence continues to occur, affecting the lives of countless children, women and men who suffer in silence. The month brings awareness to those most affected.

NO MáS: Deportation Fears Hinder Domestic Violence Reporting, But Latino Communities Also Step Up for Victims

Domestic violence, the horrendous pattern of abusive behavior whereby an intimate partner inflicts violence on their significant others, is impacting women and men across the U.S. But, Latinos are ready to challenge domestic violence victimization.

The War on Guatemalan Women: Gangs Murder with Impunity

Dead Guatemalan women are being dumped in alleyways, dropped by the roadside, and deserted in parks, bodies bound by trash bags, plastic blankets, or left bare for the world to see, abandoned by the wayside like discarded trash.

Colombian Senate Passes Law to Protect Victims of Sexual Violence

Sexual violence, in the form of rape, forced prostitution, and abductions, plagues Colombia, and often that violence goes uninvestigated and unpunished — until now. Earlier this month, Colombia's senate passed a monumental bill that will help aid and protect survivors of sexual violence — particularly those who were victimized by paramilitaries.

Latinas & Other Minority Women Targeted For Violence

Women of color, as well as young women, older women, lesbians, disabled women and poor women are especially vulnerable to male violence.

Mennonite Community in Bolivia Is Traumatized by Tranquilized Rapes of at Least 100 Women

In Bolivia, 2009, nine “religious” Mennonites were jailed for sedating and raping at least 100 women and girls, in what was being called “the ghost rapes of Bolivia.” And, though these men are jailed, the epidemic continues.
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