Essay: Telling the untold stories of Indigenous religious minority women in Mexico
ELLIS HEASLEY, of UK-based religious freedom advocacy CSW, highlights the findings of a recent CSW report on Indigenous religious minority women in Mexico…
Essay: Forcibly sterilised during Fujimori dictatorship, thousands of Peruvian women demand justice
In an article first published on The Conversation, ÑUSTA CARRANZA KO, of the University of Baltimore, looks at the fight for justice for the victims of forced sterilisation in Peru…
Survivors of missing, slain Indigenous women in Canada impatient for action
Toronto, CanadaThomson Reuters Foundation A year ago, Canada announced that the disappearance and murder of thousands of Indigenous women amounted to genocide, raising hopes authorities would act to address the historic tragedy. Now the government says a plan of action is delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic, a development that survivors and advocates say is […]
Action on Canada’s “genocide” requires courage, inquiry chief says
Vancouver, CanadaThomson Reuters Foundation Enacting the sweeping recommendations of a Canadian government report that called the deaths of Indigenous women and girls a “genocide” will take work, commitment, courage and vision, the head of the inquiry said this week. The government inquiry into murdered and missing Indigenous women released earlier this week blamed the violence […]
Tough at the top: girls believe female leaders suffer widespread harassment
London/Vancouver, CanadaThomson Reuters Foundation Girls worldwide hope to become leaders, but they expect to face sexism and harassment when they get there, a global child rights organisation said in a report released on Tuesday. More than nine in 10 girls and young women said female bosses could expect unwanted physical contact and to be treated […]
Peru’s first indigenous radio soap tells tales of “invisible” slavery
Thomson Reuters Foundation Lured by false promises of good jobs serving tourists or cleaning city apartments, Peru’s Indigenous women and girls often end up being sold for sex – a fate that the government said last week it hopes to avert through a new radio drama. Across Latin America, Indigenous women and girls from poor […]
Mapping the missing – cartographer plots disappeared native women
Seattle, USThomson Reuters Foundation Ashley Loring Heavyrunner disappeared from the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana in June, 2017, one of thousands of Indigenous women recorded missing in the United States and Canada in recent decades. For professional cartographer Annita Lucchesi, a descendant of the Cheyenne Tribe, the loss was personal – Heavyrunner was her student at […]