WOLA: Advocacy for Human Rights in the Americas
14 May 2007 | News

Shining a Light on Violence Against Women

WOLA has been publishing groundbreaking research on violence against women in Mexico and Guatemala for more than two years. Our most recent report, "Hidden in Plain Sight," was released in March this year.

WOLA has been publishing groundbreaking research on violence against women in Mexico and Guatemala for more than two years. Our most recent report on the subject, the widely-cited "Hidden in Plain Sight: Violence Against Women in Mexico and Guatemala" , was released in March this year.

For a full list of WOLA publications on the subject, see our Violence Against Women page.

The unsolved killings of more than 400 women in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, since 1993, and the possibility that these murders will go unpunished due to the statute of limitations, was the subject of a story in The Washington Post on May 14 that cited WOLA's research.