Stop Gender Based Violence in Guatemala

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November 05, 2008

For the last five years, Guatemala has suffered an epidemic of gruesome killings of women that are as mysterious as they are brutal. Many of the women's faces and bodies have been mutilated, and many have been tortured sexually or otherwise. Some of the bodies have messages, like "death to bitches," scrawled on them. In just the past six years, over 2,500 young Guatemalan women have been murdered, 665 in 2005 alone. What local activists are calling "femicide" is spreading in Guatemala and throughout Latin America.

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(ARPGE) American-Romanian Partnership for Gender Equality (ARPGE) American-Romanian Partnership for Gender Equality
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ARPGE was founded in 2004 by Peace Corps returnee Rebeka Fergusson-Lutz.


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