gender violence

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.

In the past decade, overdose deaths among women, categorized as indirect femicides, have surged by 400%, outpacing the rate of increase among men.

The campaign to prevent sexist violence ideated by the Comité PARE out of La Fortaleza left more questions than answers among the organizations involved in the effort.

The House of Representatives’ Committee on Women’s Affairs recommended that the Women’s Advocate Office lead the investigation into police officers accused of domestic violence.

Since Hurricane Fiona struck September 18, the government of Puerto Rico has held more than a dozen press conferences, but in none has it provided information that helps victims and survivors of gender-based violence get specialized aid they need during the emergency, when they are most vulnerable. 

In her office in Puerta de Tierra, a San Juan neighborhood, Supreme Court Chief Justice Maite Oronoz Rodríguez answered questions from the Gender Investigative Unit, of the Center for Investigative Journalism and Todas.

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.

Many of the mothers of femicide victims ignore their own trauma and loss to take care of the grandchildren who were orphaned by sexist violence.

The number of police officers who have been arrested for domestic violence and sexual assault, or how many officers have been convicted for gender violence are undisclosed statistics, although they were requested in early April from the Police by journalists Cristina del Mar Quiles and Syra Ortiz-Blanes of the Center for Investigative Journalism (CPI, in […]