Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Americas, Editors Rosa-Linda Fregoso and Cynthia Bejarano, Duke University Press, 2010.
Gender Violence and the Phenomenon of Femicides in the Americas
A Conversation with Scholars, Attorneys, and Human Rights Activists
4 p.m., February 17, 2011
Room 5046
UNC School of Law
As part of a feminist effort to categorize violence rooted in gender power structures as a violation of human rights, this panel will explore the analytical framework and response to the escalation of violence against women in Latin America during the past two decades.
Speakers include:
Cynthia Bejarano
Department of Criminal Justice
New Mexico State University
Rosa-Linda Fregoso
Latin American & Latino Studies
University of California, Santa Cruz
Marcela Lagarde
Department of Anthropology
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Hilda Morales Trujillo
Attorney
Guatemala's Network for Non-Violence Against Women
Deborah Weissman
University of North Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill
Sponsored by:
- UNC School of Law Immigration/Human Rights Policy Clinic
- UNC Center for Global Initiatives
- UNC Institute for the Study of the Americas
- UNC School of Law
- Carolina Women's Center
- UNC School of Law Immigration Law Association
- UNC School of Law Domestic Violence Advocacy Project