28 July 2007

please act now to stop the killings of women and girls in gatemala...

i'm looking back over the last 5 blogs entries and women are just getting it right and left -and not in a good way...unfortunately the story continues and i'm asking you to continue to take action on behalf of those whose human rights are being trampled both collectively and individually...

at 9:30 pm on july 27, 2005 - two years ago to the day yesterday - 20-year-old university student cristina hernández was forced into a car outside her home in guatemala city by four men...neighbours witnessed the abduction and immediately alerted her father who borrowed a car and tried to chase after her captors...he then went to the police station and begged the police to put up road blocks and try to stop the car...the police said that many young girls run off with boyfriends; and so they couldn't start a search for 24 hours...the next morning cristina's dead body was found...she had been shot four times and bitten all over...

two years later and over 1,200 additional women have been murdered, yet the vast majority of the perpetrators enjoy impunity....congress has called upon the u.s. and guatemalan governments to stop the cycle of violence and impunity...thanks in part to the vigilant work of amnesty international activists like you, congress has taken action...

on may 1, 2007, house resolution 100 introduced by representative solis (d-ca) condemning the killings of women and girls in guatemala was passed unanimously by congress with 100 cosponsors...a senate resolution also condemning the killings and urging the u.s. and guatemalan governments to work together to combat the problem has been introduced by senator bingaman (d-nm)...

now they need your help - get your senators to co-sponsor this important resolution, s. res. 178 ...


please act now and send your network peeps here to help save women's lives in guatemala...

peace out <3
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