El Salvador’s “State of Exception” Makes Women Collateral Damage
The move was supposed to crack down on gangs, but it puts women at further risk of violence.
- Julia Zulver,
- María José Méndez
Julia Zulver is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Institute of Legal Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies.
The move was supposed to crack down on gangs, but it puts women at further risk of violence.
Women in Colombia who support and empower their communities, often against organized violence, face unique and gendered threats. The coronavirus pandemic has made them even more acute.