Guatemala: Fighting "Femicide"

Guatemala's pattern of brutal violence against women has been making negative headlines for several years. This Al Jazeera article mentions a recent law designed specifically to punish what has been termed "femicide." The piece describes Guatemalan society's paternalistic structure as the underlying evil and argues that much work remains to be done to address violence against women in a country whose most famous citizen, indigenous rights activist Rigoberta Menchu, is female.

Warning: The article contains graphic descriptions of violence.
http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2009/08/200984134334229388.html