Grasssroots women from 13 districts from urban and rural communities were empowered to form the National Women's Federation to advocate for land and housing access rights, free from domestic violence.
The Peruvian constitution does not point out housing as a human right. In Peru, there is a deficit of 1.3 million houses. In the city of Lima, there are 600 settlements that suffer from lack of titling...
As a recognition of the work made in Chocos community, two indigenous women were selected to represent the Chocos community in the World Indigenous Women Conference at the end of October 2013...
March 2013: The Brazilian boy band, New Hit, was formally accused for the rape of two teenage girls... but are free and performing in shows all over Brazil.
Brazilians make up most of the women trafficked in the world. Cristina was living in Manaus, Amazon, and lived for 8 months as a sexual slave in Rome. She came back to Brazil 7 years ago...
On 14th February, 2012 - Valentines Day, a group of men gang-raped five women, as a 'birthday gift' to one of the men, and murdered two of the women...