Gender Investigative Unit

The fear of deportation places migrant women in a more vulnerable position despite their crucial role in sustaining some of the island's communities, social worker Elithet Silva Martínez says.

The presence and access to firearms increases the risk and lethality in situations of sexist violence. At a time when a proposal to make access to weapons on the island even more flexible is on the table, we analyze the available data, from the experience of gender violence.

Puerto Rico's Center for Investigative Journalism and feminist media outlet Todas launched the Gender Investigative Unit, a new collaborative project that seeks to produce in-depth investigations and reports aimed at changing the reality of systemic gender violence in Puerto Rico and train journalists from the island to do better coverage of these issues.