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Women in Guatemala oppose Canadian mines

Crisanta Hernandez, at her home in Ágel, showing the cracks in her walls she believes were caused by mining activity in the area. Photo: Ruth Warner
The Nobel Women's Initiative records testimonies from Guatemala women who have been affected by mining.

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The 21st Women's Memorial March in Vancouver

Photo: David P. Ball
Nearly 2,500 people walked through the streets of downtown Vancouver for this year's Women's Memorial March.

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Women's memorial march: 'Watch out world! We're coming... and we're still full of love!'
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How we remember missing and murdered women in Canada

Women's Memorial March. Artwork courtesy of Christiane Bordier
In a nation that has shown itself incapable of respecting the dead, how do we honour the memories of women killed by their families?

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A question of honour: How we remember the dead in Canada
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Why the B.C. Missing Women's Commission of Inquiry fails

Over 200 women blocked traffic and called for a 'new fair, just, and inclusive inquiry that centres the voices and experiences and leadership of women, particularly Indigenous women, in the DTES.' Photo: Courtesy of Union of BC Indian Chiefs

The very same grassroots community of women who have been advocating for a public inquiry into the deaths and disappearances of women in the Downtown Eastside for over two decades are now denouncing the B.C. Missing Women's Commission of Inquiry as an insult to the women of this Vancouver community.

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West Coast LEAF and EVA BC withdraw from B.C.'s Missing Women Inquiry

Aug. 9, 2011 - The Ending Violence Association of BC (EVA BC) and West Coast LEAF (the Coalition) have withdrawn from the Missing Women Inquiry, citing the government's failure to provide funding for counsel for community groups (full letter below).

Inquiry Commissioner Wally Oppal granted standing to 13 community groups and recommended that these groups receive funding commensurate with their differing levels of participation. Commissioner Oppal found that the participation of these groups was necessary to the work of the Commission and that they required counsel in order to participate.

However, on July 22, Deputy Attorney General David Loukidelis confirmed the government's decision not to fund any of the 13 groups.

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Slutwalk: To march or not to march

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Lydia Cacho on the trafficking of women and children in Mexico

Lydia Cacho Ribeiro accepting the Ginetta Sagan Award for Women and Children's Rights in 2007. Photo: Steve Rhodes/flickr
Mexican journalist, activist and feminist Lydia Cacho battles to keep her Cancun shelter open.

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Against the misogyny, against the trafficking of women and children in Mexico
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Against the misogyny, against the trafficking of women and children in Mexico

For 20 years, Mexican activist Lydia Cacho has been waging war on human trafficking in Mexico. In 1999 she launched CIAM Cancun (the Comprehensive Care Centre for Women), a shelter for battered women and children that has been threatened with closure due to lack of funding.

The organisation was created in response to the sexual violence against women and children that is rife in Mexican culture. It's a refuge in a country where trafficking is seldom punished.

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Mayan victims of gang rapes announce lawsuit against Canadian mining company

For immediate release: March 28, 2011

Toronto, Canada and El Estor, Guatemala:

Rosa Elbira Coc Ich and ten other indigenous Mayan Q'eqchi' women filed a lawsuit Monday against Canadian mining companies HMI Nickel, and its corporate owner, HudBay Minerals, regarding mining-related gang-rapes suffered by them near a Canadian-owned mining site in Guatemala.

On January 17, 2007, the eleven women were gang-raped by mining company security personnel, police and military during the forceful expulsion of Mayan Q'eqchi' families from their farms and homes in the community of "Lote Ocho". These armed evictions were sought by HMI Nickel in relation to its Fenix mining project, located on the north shores of Lake Izabal, Guatemala.

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Chipping away at gender equality: Harper's five-year round up

This weekend marked the five-year anniversary of the ascent to power of Canada's exceptionally charismatic (cough*cough) and calculating Conservative PM Stephen Harper. It's surprising that Stephen Harper has lasted so long in a minority government, but for a minority PM, he sure has accomplished a lot -- if by accomplishments, one is referring to the insidious erosion of women's rights that has occurred in the last five years. Let's take a look back at what Harper has done to increase gender inequality, shall we?

Scrap universal daycare

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