Violence Against Women in Latin America

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This paper examines the responses of women's rights workers to violence and human rights abuses and how these responses can be used as examples of how to collectively fight human rights violations and create societal change. The paper points out that women's groups around the world have organized in ways that offer models for correcting human rights violations. The paper focuses on women's rights abuses in Latin America, pointing out the gendered nature of public violence in Latin American countries, and calls for an analysis of the problem using a comprehensive model that integrates the multiple expressions of structural violence and the personal dynamics of patriarchal power.

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"In Central and South America the human rights framework has been applied to the violations that occurred in Chile, Guatemala, El Salvador, Argentina and other military governments. The goal of human rights educators within these countries is to educate citizens to recognize when they are treated wrongly, and that they are not to blame for the atrocities many have suffered and, in so doing, create a human rights culture. Latin American writers instruct us that a society that emphasizes economic development as a (if not the) major goal leads to valuing the individual over the community, and modernization over traditionalism, the environment and the well being of children and the poor."

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