Weekly Report - 9 December 2003
GUATEMALA: Juárez-like spotlight on femicide
US actress Jane Fonda has embarked on a campaign to make women's murders in Guatemala as much of an international issue as those of Ciudad Juárez in Mexico [WR-03-46]. She visited the capital last week and promised to return with an `army' of women activists to demand action on the murder of about 700 women since 2000, with 270 reported this year alone, she said, adding, `You have even more women killed than in Ciudad Juárez.'
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