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Weekly Report - 1 June 2004
GUATEMALA: Focus on femicide misses broader picture
When an Amnesty International team visited Guatemala in late May, the human rights committee of the Guatemalan congress told it that 200 women had been murdered in the country since the beginning of the year. Days earlier, the country's human rights procurator, Sergio Morales, accused the authorities of negligence for failing to investigate the hundreds of murders that took place last year. As in the case of Ciudad Juárez in Mexico, femicide in Guatemala is becoming the focus of international attention.
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