We’re pleased to have Kody Gerkin, Author and Founder of Mujerave, to write a special feature article on the links between poverty, migration and violence against women and girls in Guatemala. Hundreds of women rallied in the capital Manila protesting President Rodrigo Duterte for alleged abuses against women.
Perpetrators of these crimes operate in a country where less than four per cent of all homicides result in convictions.According to the United Nations, crimes against women in Guatemala go unpunished in more than 88% of reported cases. Dating Guatemala City also suffer from some of the highest rates of interfamilial violence in the world.
- Perinatal mental disorders – depression, anxiety and somatic disorders – can be detrimental to women’s health, pregnancy outcomes and infant neurological, cognitive, emotional, and social development .
- In Guatemala, nearly 10 out of 100,000 women are killed on a yearly basis and the country ranks third worldwide in the killings of women.
- For Guatemalan women, this is a matter of life or death, whereby if lethal violence does not kill them, the heavy toll on quality of life, citizenship, and psychological health may be equally injurious.
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During Guatemala’s brutal 36-year civil war, hundreds of thousands of Guatemalans fled north to escape persecution from the Guatemalan military. Indigenous Maya, roughly half of Guatemala’s population, suffered a targeted genocide that left hundreds of thousands dead or disappeared. Even after the signing of the Peace Accords in 1996, formally ending the war, security conditions in Guatemala remained abysmal. Today, safety concerns continue to motivate many Guatemalans to flee their homes and migrate to the United States. The Mexican men who want to end violence against women In Mexico, stay-at-home measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 are being touted as a chance for men to help with housework and childcare. The few facilities for women where they can receive psychological and legal assistance after suffering sexual abuse or find temporary shelter are neglected by the government. “As a consequence, many of them resign. The victims are the ones to suffer. Women in Guatemala who have suffered abuse do not receive the necessary support.
Problems Within The Justice System
Many women abandon their cases because the stress and hardship put onto them. Without proper trials, investigations, and sentencing, the violence towards women will progressively increase. From 2006 to 2011, the budget the military was allotted went from sixty-three million United States dollars to one hundred and seventy-five million dollars.
Situation Of Human Rights Defenders
Authorities may offer little support, said a 23-year-old indigenous woman at Center Casa de la Mujer, an organization for victims of gender-based violence in the town of Solola. “The poverty in Guatemala affects women most and hardest, especially indigenous women,” said Antonia Batz, 40, a midwife in Tecpan. Lane’s main inspiration as a feminist activist is the aunt after whom she is named.
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In 2016, she toured the United States and performed at the United Nations headquarters in New York, during the Permanent Forum of Indigenous Issues. Her songs blend Kaqchikel and Spanish, celebrate Mother Earth, her ancestors, and Indigenous women, but also offer encouragement to Guatemala’s Mayan struggle for justice. Lucia Xiloj Cui is a Maya Q’echi’ lawyer fighting for justice, specifically in sexual abuse cases committed during Guatemala’s civil war. Guatemala’s Indigenous peoples make up 60% of the country’s population, yet somehow Indigenous people—and especially Indigenous women—rarely made it into history books.
One Guatemalan immigrant, we’ll call him Marvin, said “what motivated me to emigrate was that I had land to build a house, our own house, for me and my wife and our two children,” Marvin said. “But, with the salary I earned in Guatemala, it would never be enough for me to build the home,” Marvin continued, recalling what motivated him to migrate north in 2005. Iran debates ‘honor killings’ after girl’s murder shocks country The recent murder of an Iranian girl by her own father has highlighted women’s inequality and the country’s antiquated legal system. Ukraine’s capital Kyiv was rocked by protests as thousands of women marched to highlight domestic violence. With banners saying “the pandemic has a woman’s face,” protesters aimed to draw attention to how women suffered during the COVID crisis. Cases of domestic violence have risen worldwide during the coronavirus pandemic, as isolation and confinement prompted sexual and gender-based violence. But in this extremely Catholic country, even women who have been the victims of rape are forbidden to have an abortion.