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Navigating Key Development Issues in Central America’s Dry Corridor

Recommended Readings on Key Development Issues in Central America’s Dry Corridor.

Gender Issues

Álvarez-Garavito, Carolina, and Hugo Nicolás Acosta-González. 2021. "Femicide in Latin America: An economic approach." Revista Desarrollo y Sociedad 88 (1). https://ideas.repec.org/a/col/000090/019409.html.

Ávila, Jennifer, Karol Bobadilla, Otto Argueta, Kimberley Ashburn, Paige Pepitone, and Marie-Celine Schulte. 2022. Gender-Based Violence Impunity Regional Study: Honduras Case Study. Latin America and Caribbean Learning and Rapid Response (LACLEARN). https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PA00ZQ54.pdf.

Baranowski, Kim A., Eileen Wang, Megan R. D'Andrea, and Elizabeth K. Singer. 2020. "Experiences of gender-based violence in women asylum seekers from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala." Torture Journal 29 (3): 46-58. https://tidsskrift.dk/torture-journal/article/view/111970.

Beck, Erin, and Amir Mohamed. 2021. "A Body Speaks: State, Media, and Public Responses to Femicide in Guatemala." Laws 10 (3): 73. https://www.mdpi.com/2075-471X/10/3/73.

Beck, Erin. 2021. "The Uneven Impacts of Violence against Women Reform in Guatemala: Intersecting Inequalities and the Patchwork State." Latin American Research Review 56 (1): 20-35. https://www.cambridge.org/core/article/uneven-impacts-of-violence-against-women-reform-in-guatemala-intersecting-inequalities-and-the-patchwork-state/CF0C244BC4589AD06C77DAE4BD78274E.

Carrigan, Michelle, and Myrna Dawson. 2020. "Problem Representations of Femicide/Feminicide Legislation in Latin America." International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 9 (2): 1-19. https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v9i2.1354.

Cepeda, Isabel, Maricruz Lacalle-Calderon, and Miguel Torralba. 2021. "Microfinance and Violence Against Women in Rural Guatemala." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 36 (3-4): 1391-1413. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0886260517738780.

ECLAC (United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean). 2020. The pandemic in the shadows: femicides or feminicides in 2020 in Latin America and the Caribbean. ECLAC. https://www.cepal.org/sites/default/files/infographic/files/21-00792_folleto_the_pandemic_in_the_shadows_web.pdf.

ECLAC (United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean). 2022. Bringing an end to violence against women and girls and femicide or feminicide: A key challenge for building a care society. = Poner fin a la violencia contra las mujeres y niñas y al femicidio o feminicidio: Reto clave para la construcción de una sociedad del cuidado. ECLAC. https://oig.cepal.org/en/documents/bringing-end-violence-against-women-and-girls-and-femicide-or-feminicide-key-challenge.

Fraser, Hanna Smit and Erika. 2022. Latin America Regional Analysis. Violence Against Women and Children Helpdesk. https://ww2preventvawg.org/sites/default/files/2022-03/Ending%20VAWC%20HD%20Report%2010%20Latin%20America%20GBV%20trends.pdf.

Fuentes, Lorena. 2020. "“The Garbage of Society”: Disposable Women and the Socio-Spatial Scripts of Femicide in Guatemala." Antipode 52 (6): 1667-1687. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12669.

Gonnella-Platts, Natalie, Jenny Villatoro, and Laura Collins. 2021. No Justice: Gender-based Violence and Migration in Central America. Wilson Center. https://gwbcenter.imgix.net/Publications/Reports/gwbi_Immigration,_Security,_and_Gender-Based_Violence.pdf.

Gretzinger, Fabiola. 2022. "Sexual Violence in Costa Rica: A Progressive Country with Regressive Gender Policies." Minnesota journal of international law 31 (2). https://minnjil.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Gretzinger_v31_i2_157_185.pdf.

Huttner, Sophie. 2020. "El Salvador’s Femicide Crisis." The Yale Review of International Studies. http://yris.yira.org/essays/3794.

Jokela-Pansini, M. 2020. "Complicating notions of violence: An embodied view of violence against women in Honduras." Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 38 (5): 848–865. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654420906833.

Kloppe-Santamaría, Gema. 2021. Ni Una Menos, Not One Less: Femicides and Gender-Based Violence in Mexico and Northern Central America. Wilson Center Gender-Based Violence Dispatch no. 12. https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/media/uploads/documents/Ni_Una_Menos_Not_One_Less.pdf.

Navarro-Mantas, Laura, Marta J. Velásquez, Soledad de Lemus, and Jesús L. Megías. 2021. "Prevalence and Sociodemographic Predictors of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in El Salvador." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 36 (7-8): NP3547-NP3573.  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0886260518779065.

Neumann, Pamela. "“If It’s Not Femicide, It’s Still Murder”: Contestations over Femicide in Nicaragua." Feminist Criminology 17, no. 1 (2022): 139-59. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/15570851211037271.

Neumann, Pamela. 2022. "“If It’s Not Femicide, It’s Still Murder”: Contestations Over Femicide in Nicaragua." Feminist Criminology 17 (1): 139-159. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/15570851211037271.

Ordorica, Camila. 2022. "From Femicide to Feminicidio: Latin American Contributions to Feminist Conceptual History." Contributions to the History of Concepts 17 (1): 45-61. https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/contributions/17/1/choc170103.xml.

PAHO (Pan American Health Organization). 2022. Addressing violence against women in health policies and protocols in the Americas: A regional status report. PAHO. https://iris.paho.org/bitstream/handle/10665.2/56750/9789275126387_eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y.

Robayo-Abril, Monica, Ana Maria Tribin, and José Andrés Oliva. 2023. Fiscal Policy as a Tool for Gender Equity in El Salvador. World Bank Policy Research Working Papers; 10547. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/40231   

Smith, Cory. 2020. Addressing the Sex and Gender-Based Violence in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador Fueling the U.S. Border Crisis: Corruption, Impunity, and Violence Against Women and Girls. University of Notre Dame. https://pulte.nd.edu/assets/383519/report_sgbv_cory_smith.pdf.

The Advocates for Human Rights. 2021. Honduras’ Compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women: Suggested List of Issues Relating to Violence Against Women. 81st Session of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (Pre-Sessional Working Group) 12 July 2021 – 16 July 2021. https://www.theadvocatesforhumanrights.org/Res/Honduras%20LOI%20CEDAW%2081%20PSWG.pdf.

UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime), and UN Women. 2022. Gender-related killings of women and girls (femicide/feminicide): Global estimates of gender-related killings of women and girls in the private sphere in 2021 Improving data to improve responses. https://asiapacific.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2022/11/femicide-feminicide.

World Bank Group. 2023. Gender-Based Violence Country Profile: Honduras. World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/40127.

 

 

 

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