Guatemala must act to stop the killing of women
Amnesty International today urged the Guatemalan authorities to act to stop the high numbers of women being killed across the country and ensure perpetrators are brought to justice, ahead of International Women’s Day on 8 March.
According to official figures, 685 women were killed in 2010 alone in Guatemala amid a culture of impunity, a legacy of the 1960-96 internal armed conflict which led to hundreds of thousands human rights violations which remain unaccounted for. (...)
The article:
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/guatemala-must-act-stop-killing-women-2011-03-07
Basic information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala
http://www.mondimpresa.it/infoflash/scheda.ASP?st=416
Human Rights in Guatemala:
http://thereport.amnesty.org/sites/default/files/AIR2010_AZ_EN.pdf#page=102
http://www.hrw.org/en/world-report-2011/guatemala
http://www.hrw.org/en/americas/guatemala
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Un appello per Norma Cruz: