Gender-Based Violence in Times of COVID: Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Belize, Honduras and the Caribbean

Report
Authors:Sweeney, Lean, AS-HistoryUniversity of Virginia Gulas, SethUniversity of Virginia Marsh, StrattonUniversity of Virginia Guevara, Anthony, Arts & Sciences UndergraduateUniversity of Virginia Martinez, Angel, Arts & Sciences UndergraduateUniversity of Virginia Prince, Lauren, Arts & Sciences UndergraduateUniversity of Virginia Rodriguez Rosales, Diana, AS-American StudiesUniversity of Virginia Schmidt, OliviaUniversity of Virginia Stavig, Evan, Arts & Sciences UndergraduateUniversity of Virginia Devost, Madeleine, Arts & Sciences UndergraduateUniversity of Virginia
Abstract:

Study conducted as part of the University of Virginia’s Diplomacy Lab program in connection with the U.S. State Department, inquiring into the nature of gender-based violence in Mexico, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Belize and parts of the Caribbean during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, including a focus on Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities in the region.

Keywords:
gender-based violence, violence against women, Caribbean, Latin America, LGBTQ, intersectionality, indigenous
Language:
English
Publisher:
University of Virginia
Published Date:
2021
Sponsoring Agency:
Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation, University of Virginia
Notes:

Produced by the students in HILA 4993, Independent Study in in Latin American History, Prof. Lean Sweeney, Corcoran Department of History