By Anna-Claire Bevan REVUE: Guatemala’s English-language Magazine What started out as a fun crafts workshop has become a resource for entrepreneurship, enabling many of its members to escape the dangers of working in one of Central America’s largest garbage…
Joan Baez, iconic American folk singer, songwriter, musician and prominent activist in the fields of human rights, peace and environmental justice, receives the Folk Alliance International 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award.
By Joshua Armstrong Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – Arlene O’Brien couldn’t believe it. It was the first day of training on the Tohono O’odham reservation for Safestar, a Justice Department program that trains everyday women to help sexual assault…
By Danila Garcia LatinaLista SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR — In El Salvador in 1930, the first female president in all of Latin America was elected. Her name was Prudencia Ayala and she led the way in history to proclaim…
By Caroline Anderson Peace X Peace There is work to be done in every community to understand our neighbors better, and to create a more cohesive and peaceful existence. Peace starts at home, and home can be a model…
LatinaLista — The full name of the bill re-introduced in Congress on Nov. 30 by U.S. Rep. Lois Capps, D-Calif is the Heart Disease Education, Analysis Research, and Treatment for Women Act. Thankfully, the shortened title is a lot…
LatinaLista — It is reported that among the vast majority of the world’s languages, the word for “mother” begins with the letter M. This simple bit of trivia underscores how the experience of motherhood is an uniting force for…
LatinaLista — No one should face breast cancer alone. That’s the mission focus of the recently launched website for the Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization™. The web site, available in both English and Spanish, Y-ME, focuses on the human…
LatinaLista — Fighting for women’s health rights has been an ongoing struggle ever since women got the right to vote. The struggle has gotten even harder these days with politicians, who in their eternal quest to balance the federal…
By Pablo Jaime Sáinz La Prensa San Diego SAN DIEGO — More than 65 percent of women who get help from a center for domestic violence in San Diego are Latinas. The numbers are alarming, but there are even…
Latina Lista — Want to network with hundreds of Latinas Listas? The National Hispana Leadership Institute (NHLI) will convene over six hundred Latinas, national leaders and NHLI’s accomplished alumnae at the Wilshire Grand Hotel in Los Angeles, CA in…
By Roxana Urrutia LatinaLista The other day at the park there was a lady, who obviously knew nothing about dogs, accusing another woman’s dog of being fat. The dog owner argued back defending her dog’s physique, and amid that…
LatinaLista — When it comes to heart disease, Latinos are in a good position, not great, but good. In general, Latinos are 10 percent less likely to have coronary heart disease than non-Hispanic white adults and less likely to…
LatinaLista — October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Domestic violence is a real issue among Latinos but it’s an issue that doesn’t get enough attention — especially for Spanish-speaking victims. One author wants to change that. Dr. Celso William Chignoli…
LatinaLista — Think of domestic violence and images of women bruised and beaten immediately come to mind. Yet, we know there are other types of abusive behavior that leave women just as beaten down. One type of abuse that…
LatinaLista — With the rising numbers of Latinos uninsured in this country and the growing list of challenging illnesses facing Latinos like: obesity, diabetes, heart disease, breast cancer, skin cancer, glaucoma, cervical cancer, etc., it makes for a disturbing…
LatinaLista — The notion that the nation’s first Latina governor would have anything in common with Alaska’s former governor, aside from party affiliation, would never even occur to most people. Yet, the two women do have some things in…
By Alberto Suris Rumbo News LAWRENCE — As the City of Lawrence continues to grieve over recent deaths linked to domestic violence, this year’s annual “Brides’ March” offered a much-needed opportunity to foster awareness and healing from the crisis…
LatinaLista — Ever since the practice of “micro loans” was made popular in helping women entrepreneurs in developing nations establish their businesses, the products they made didn’t travel far out of their neighborhoods. Yet, with technology, the sophistication of business…
LatinaLista — There is no issue that is borderless or as universal in its appeal than the plight of mothers and their children in developing countries. We saw that during the recent high-profile coverage of the Somali women and children…
By Joslyn Rosado La Costa Latina PENSACOLA, FL — Beauty, fashion and fitness are brought to Pensacola in the form of a bar by two Hispanic women. Bonnielee Cuevas, Puerto Rican and Dominican, along with sister Jandy Tineo, Dominican,…
LatinaLista — Today is the 17th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). The legislation was supposed to empower women, who were victims of violence, to know they didn’t have to tolerate the abuse they were receiving from…
LatinaLista — Inequality between women and men still exists in greater degrees in South America than they do anywhere else in the Western Hemisphere. A review of any telenovela makes the disparity between the sexes immediately apparent and underscores…
LatinaLista — With every natural disaster, juicy celebrity gossip or disruptive political happening, the role of social media takes on greater importance. Yet, there are two other things people do online that overshadow the popularity of social media —…
LatinaLista — Tomorrow, August 26 is Women’s Equality Day. It’s a day when women were granted the right to vote. It’s a day that is mostly remembered with presidential proclamations, news articles, opinion pieces and historical footage showing how…
