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“The war on drugs has become a war on women”

By Maya | Published: June 6, 2012

Tweet Jody Williams and Rigoberta Menchu. Pic via CNN. Violence against women in Latin America is on the rise–and it’s partly thanks to the US’s ineffective drug policies. A delegation of women, led by Nobel Laureates Jody Williams and Rigoberta Menchu, released a report yesterday on the horrifying levels of gender-based violence in Mexico, Honduras, [...]

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