Guatemala: Information on the treatment by the government of women who are single, widowed, elderly and childless
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 November 1994 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | GTM19024.E |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Guatemala: Information on the treatment by the government of women who are single, widowed, elderly and childless, 1 November 1994, GTM19024.E, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ace14f.html [accessed 27 May 2023] |
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Information on this specific subject could not be found among the sources currently available to the DIRB in Ottawa. However, in addition to Country Reports for 1993, which is available at your Regional Documentation Centre, attached please find a number of documents providing information on the current situation of women in Guatemala. These documents might be of interest.
This response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the DIRB within time constraints. This response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.
Attachments
Barry, Tom. 1992. Inside Guatemala. Albuquerque, N.Mex.: The Inter-Hemispheric Education Resources Center, pp. 161-68.
Guatemala Bulletin [Washington, DC]. Fourth Quarter 1992. Vol. 10, No. 4. Jennifer Tisdale. "Abuse of Women in Today's Guatemala," pp. 6-7.
Houston Chronicle. 4 October 1992. Dudley Althaus. "We Are New Women, And Things Must Change." (Central America Newspak [Austin, Tex.]. 18 Oct. 1992. Vol. 7, No. 18, pp. 6-8)
Inter-Church Committee on Human Rights in Latin America (ICHRLA). January 1992. 1991 Annual Report on the Human Rights Situation in Guatemala. Toronto: ICHRLA Publications, p. 6.
Ladin, Sharon. December 1993. 1994 IWRAW to CEDAW Country Reports on Barbados, Ecuador, Guyana, Libya, New Zealand, Senegal, Colombia, Guatemala, Japan, Madagascar, Norway and Zambia. Minneapolis, Minn.: Hubert M. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and International Women's Rights Action Watch (IWRAW)/WPPD Publications, pp. 5-8.
Notimex Mexican News Service. 11 March 1993. "Rigoberta Menchu Gets Standing Ovation at Women's Day Meeting." (NEXIS)
Women's Movement of the World: An International Directory and Reference Guide. 1988. Edited by Sally Shreir. London: Longman UK Group Ltd., pp. 115-17.
