{"id":115,"date":"2007-05-16T22:55:11","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T05:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malcs.net\/blog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2007-05-16T22:55:11","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T05:55:11","slug":"feminicide-conference-at-stanford-n-calif-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/2007\/05\/16\/feminicide-conference-at-stanford-n-calif-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminicide Conference at Stanford (N. Calif) this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

The May 16-19 conference <\/strong>Feminicide<\/strong> = Sanctioned Murder: Race, Gender and Violence in Global Context<\/span> will examine the murders and disappearances of women in Mexico, Guatemala and Canada that are occurring on an epidemic scale, and interrogate closely the gender,\"Feminicide\" class, sexual and ethnoracial components of this violence against women. The aim and purpose of the conference is to stop the violence and map out ways to bring about justice.<\/p>\n

Distinguished participants include Elena Poniatowska, one of Mexico\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most eminent writers, whose innovative writing advocates for women and the poor in their struggle for social and economic justice, and Lydia Cacho, who recently received the 2007 Ginetta Sagan Award for Women and Children’s Rights from Amnesty International for exposing a net of pederasts linked to the government and big business, and for creating a shelter for the children, victims of trafficking and abuse in Canc\u00c3\u00ban, Mexico.<\/p>\n

For more info, see conference website at https:\/\/ccsre.stanford.edu\/feminicide<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The May 16-19 conference Feminicide = Sanctioned Murder: Race, Gender and Violence in Global Context will examine the murders and disappearances of women in Mexico, Guatemala and Canada that are occurring on an epidemic scale, and interrogate closely the gender, class, sexual and ethnoracial components of this violence against women. The aim and purpose of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-announcements","7":"entry","8":"override"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1425,"url":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/2012\/12\/09\/for-the-women-of-ciudad-juarez\/","url_meta":{"origin":115,"position":0},"title":"For the Women of Ciudad Juarez","author":"la Webjefa","date":"December 9, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"MALCS Member Rosa-Linda Fregoso read the December 3, 2012 Mujeres Talk essay on Human Trafficking legislation and wanted to share her own essay \"For the Women of Ciudad Ju\u00c3\u00a1rez\" from FeministWire on memorials to the murdered and disappeared women of Ju\u00c3\u00a1rez:\u00c2\u00a0 By Rosalinda Fregoso Crossposted from The Feminist Wire, 12\/3\/12\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General News"","block_context":{"text":"General News","link":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/category\/general-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":99,"url":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/2007\/03\/20\/la-conference-stop-guatemalan-femicide\/","url_meta":{"origin":115,"position":1},"title":"L.A. 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