Femicide & Gender Violence

This year, NACLA’s web articles were accompanied by powerful photos from journalists across the region. Here are the top photos.

A brutal triple femicide exposes how women’s bodies are the battlefield of a war the authorities refuse to name.

A series of recent legal decisions on gender-based violence further reveals the Trump administration’s depravity—and sentences vulnerable asylum-seeking women to their death.

Desde Tegucigalpa a Buenos Aires y Nueva Orleans, el Archivo Honduras Cuir preserva y celebra la vida trans y cuir a través de la memoria, la resistencia y la solidaridad transnacional.

Forty years after surviving state violence, Maya Achi women return to court to demand justice, challenging a long legacy of impunity for crimes against humanity.

In the face of the femicide crisis in Colombia, a second crisis persists: hundreds of children are left orphaned each year and without support from the state.

Bolivia enters a multi-sided and violent crisis as the former president, facing sexual abuse charges and gunfire, presses to appear on the ballot again.

The Guelaguetza is often a site of politics and protest. This year, one survivor denounced state complicity in the country's rampant gender violence.

Now available in English from Charco Press, Selva Almada's journalistic novel chronicles the cases of three women who grew up in the interior of Argentina and were murdered during her youth.

In Puerto Rico, two recent femicides sparked renewed feminist organizing to demand concrete action on gender violence.

In one of the most dangerous Latin American countries to be a woman, lockdown measures exposed longstanding challenges in combatting gender violence.

In one of the most dangerous Latin American countries to be a woman, lockdown measures exposed longstanding challenges in combating gender violence.