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~FEMICIDE AND IMPUNITY~

Femicide is occurring all throughout Latin American and the Caribbean.  It is a term that describes the most extreme expression of gender based violence accepted culturally whereby the laws don’t inspire an optimum level of response from authorities. Guatemala is #1 in the world for femicide and impunity.  Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, and Argentina have the highest rates of femicide to date.  Girls are being raped, tortured, dismembered, and killed in Guatemala at random and the perpetrators are never arrested.  One sad thing about femicide is that not many people seem to care unless they are directly affected by the violence.  It is one the most extreme expressions of man’s inhumanity to man.  The devil sure does have a hold on the men who engage in femicide.

Thoughts and Feelings

We want to let the women and young girls know that we acknowledge the turmoil that they are going through and we care about them no matter how far they are from us.  This is not just a Guatemala problem. The women need to be well-versed on safety, protection, self-defense and survival.  We need to send a message that they need to fight back in order to stay alive and get the respect that they deserve.

Mission

We want to stage events in Guatemala City with local charity organizations to support the protection of women and denounce femicide.   The women should be given lessons on safety, protection, self-defense and survival.  We also want to pass out free  self-defense items such as taser guns, whistles, pepper spray, pocket knives, pocket flashlights, etc... This will help reduce fear and curtail kidnapping.  The men need to learn to respect women as equal human beings and not as sex objects where sex is taken by force and brutality whenever they have the urge to do so.      

Funds Needed

We need to raise as much funds as possible to support the ongoing training, events, and self-defense items we can acquire and hand out to the women and young girls.

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Please spread the word to as many people that you know because we want this story to get the attention that it deserves. This violence will be curtailed when everybody is informed and work hard to put an end to it. Femicide in Guatemala has gone on for far too long now.