Posts Tagged ‘Women’
Mexico City Subway Ridden with Perverts
4:08 pm By Maegan La Mala · Women| mexico| society · 1 Comment
15 Aug 2008
The head of the Mexico City transportation system announced today some alarming statistics about the metropolis’s subway system. There is an average of at least one incident of sexual harassment reported to authorities every day.
“…In 5 million trips made from Monday through Friday, there is one complaint per day. We believe that this number is low. There are perhaps 2 or 3 complaints per day that go unregistered because the complaint never gets made, either because [the victim] doesn’t have time or because they are reluctant. That’s why we are encouraging people to report [the incidents],” said Bojórquez.
The head of the system says that measures that are currently being used to curb this trend — like separate cars for women and children — seem to be helping, but there is obviously still a problem.
Gropers beware: The Fridabus takes Mexico City
10:03 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Culture| Marketing| Women| mexico| society · Comments Off
11 Jul 2007Earlier this week we talked about the latest attempts to raise the profile of Frida Kahlo in the world, in honor of the 100th anniversary of her birth. While some might say that this is all too much, Mexico City thinks not. They’ve converted some of their city buses into “Fridabúses” — moving shrines honoring the painter. According to Mexico City blog DFinitivo, the buses also serve an altruistic purpose:
The Fridabúses are the first step in exalting important women in history involved in education, science and the struggle for women’s rights — women whose actions strengthened equal gender rights.
Latin American women almost on par with men for salary
2:01 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Labor| Latin America| Women · Comments Off
14 May 2007
A new study shows some encouraging data about the state of workplace equality — at least as it relates to remuneration — for women in Latin America. According to the Organización Internacional del Trabajo’s (OIT, International Work Organization) report “Equality in the Workplace”, in the period of 1994-2004 salaries for women in Latin America have gone up considerably, reaching almost the same level of pay for their male counterparts in some cases, and falling just below in others:
In Paraguay, for example, women went from earning 36% less than men in 1994 to 5% less in 2004.The same thing happened in Brazil in the same decade (from 39% to 13%), and Chile (from 30% to 17%), in Mexico (from 32% to 22%) and in Ecuador (from 24% to 13%).
The best examples of positive change for salary equality in Latin America were Venezuela and Colombia, where women workers earn only 1% less than their male counterparts. The worst? Argentina, where women earn an average of 38% less than men, a statistic that didn’t change from 1994-2004.
Via / El Universal
AIDS becoming a female issue in Mexico
7:04 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Health| Women| mexico · 1 Comment
10 May 2007
The number of women infected with HIV or suffering from AIDS has skyrocketed, making the epidemic in Mexico a “women’s issue”, according to the United Nations Population Fund which announced, via press conference, a worldwide HIV conference to be held in Mexico next year:
The UN representative stressed that the increase in the number of cases of women [with HIV] is “worrysome”, as the statistic of 35 percent of women making up the number of infected people around the world in 1995 has gone up to 48 percent.Mauricio Hernández, under secretary of Health, revealed that in Mexico there are 40,000 women infected with the virus, and that the organization is looking to negotiate to procurement of female condoms for less than two dollars each, to be able to distribute 800,000 this year.
According to the UN Joint Programme on AIDS, two thirds of the estimated 1.7 million people living with HIV in Latin America reside in the four largest countries: Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina.
Via / La Jornada and UNAIDS
Chile: Women wear diapers to work non-stop
10:26 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Chile| Controversia| Labor · 8 Comments
4 May 2007
A supermarket chain in Chile is accused of forcing its cashiers to wear diapers to avoid interrupting their work by going to the bathroom:
Going to the bathroom is prohibited during work hours. This is one of the unjust obligations that cashiers at the Chilean supermarket chain Santa Isabel have to fulfill, according to the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (CUT) union.A union spokesperson said on Thursday that the women working at these establishments “are made to work 9 hours at their cash registers without being allowed to move,” which requires that they wear diapers since they cannot go to the bathroom.
The chain is denying that they’ve done anything wrong. President Bachelet, where are you?
Via / Diario ADN
Mexico City government official: 1,619 rapes is nothing
7:42 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Women| mexico · Comments Off
7 Feb 2007
1,619 rapes per year in Mexico City is apparently not such a big deal for the head of the Woman’s Institute (Instituto de las Mujeres del Distrito Federal), the city government entity that promotes programs for women and supposedly defends their rights. Nothing in comparison, she says (yes, she) to the number of busines robberies there are per year in the Mexican capital. These words were pronounced before an assembly of representatives from the Equality and Gender Commission (Comisión de Equidad y Género).
According to Mexican daily La Jornada, when pressed by a politician from the PRD who emphasized the grave problem of women being raped on the city’s public transportation systems, the head of the Institute, Martha Lucía Micher Camarena, rectified her statement by saying “…even if there were only one (rape) it would warrant our work.” Media then got wind of the statement:
Mexico passes landmark domestic violence law
3:14 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Justice| Women| mexico · 2 Comments
2 Feb 2007
Mexican president Felipe Calderón announced yesterday that he will be “unstoppable before the issue of gender violence”, as he declared the passage of the first federal domestic violence legislation for the country:
The law — enacted with its publication in the federal register — does not drastically change how violators are currently punished. But it symbolically underscores the government’s recognition of a scourge that is widespread but often ignored in this traditionally macho society.Officially, the law is the first federal measure combatting domestic violence and other abuse against women, though similar statues were already on the books in many cities and states.
“Therapeutic Abortion” now illegal in Nicaragua
11:31 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Latin America| Nicaragua| Women · 1 Comment
27 Oct 2006
A follow-up to Mala’s post from a couple of weeks ago.
In a giant leap backwards, the Nicaraguan parliament has yielded to the pressures of religious groups and the Nicaraguan president himself and moved to make therapeutic abortion (abortion to save a mother’s life) illegal and punishable by law in the coutry.
The parliament has left the current sentence for those who practice the abortions in place — six years in prison — in spite of the fact that President Enrique Bolaños was pushing for a much harsher sentence of 20 to 30 years.
Meanwhile, according to Spain’s 20 Minutos, the United Nations and the European Union are “worried”. You see, it’s no coincidence that this is being debated now…election day is just over a week away.
The measure was approved with the help from the left in an attempt to bolster favor for their candidate Daniel Ortega.
According to 20 Minutos, in a joint statement the United Nations and the European Union said:
“given that this is a highly sensitive issue that affects the life, health, and judicial safety of Nicaraguan women,” this issue should not be discussed so close to the November 5th elections.
Reuters reports that hundreds of women protested the passing of the measure outside of the National Assembly Wednesday night, many calling the decision a “death sentence” for pregnant women and a “violation of human rights”.
Via / 20 Minutos and Reuters
Spanish city opens shelter for abused men
4:25 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Family| Spain| society · Comments Off
20 Oct 2006
The Spanish city of León is opening up Spain’s first shelter for male victims of domestic violence, and “positive discrimination” (affirmative action), according to 20 Minutos. The center will also house men who are separated or divorced and having a hard time making it:
The first center will open in León, and the project has a budget of 1.5 million euros.There are also plans to open other similar centers in Barcelona, Valencia, Alicante, Madrid, Murcia, Cádiz and Sevilla, depending on projects supported by various support groups for separated fathers throughout Spain.
According to the Centristas group, the organization in charge of the shelter, the centers will provide housing, legal help, professional development programs and a business center for residents.
Earlier this month, Spain’s constitutional tribunal admitted debate on whether or not domestic violence laws in the country discriminate against men.
A few Spanish sites are popping up on the internet which claim to support abused men and denounce feminism.
Meanwhile, to date, 59 women have died in Spain at the hands of their partner or ex partner this year.
Via / 20 Minutos and Instituto de la Mujer
Chicas Like Us
8:57 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Movies| Women| children| race · Comments Off
23 Aug 2006
One of the reasons I love VL is because our readers pass us such great info. Yesterday we were informed of a film that impacted me as a Latina mami and mujer. The short film, A Girl Like Me, explores the standards of beauty and the messages that society is sending to black girls. The 7 minute piece directed by Kiri Davis and featured at the last Tribeca Film Festival features interviews with black girls talking honestly about their skin color and hair texture and what they were taught was beautiful compared what they thought themselves to be. While watching children all shades of brown choosing a white baby doll as good and a darker baby doll as bad and identifying with the darker doll was sad and horrifying it wasn’t surprising.
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