What did they tell you when you arrived at the safe house? Welcome to pure hell. On the 8th March 2017, International Women’s Day, 56 young women and girls were locked in a 7m x 6.8m classroom at the Hogar… Read More ›
Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción
The Tragedy Of The Hogar Seguro: Revealing The Situation Of Guatemalan Children
“Guatemalan childhood is not the future but the present of Guatemala. It should matter to all of us.” ACOGUATE have posted a piece on the upcoming hearings relating to the fire at the Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción, in… Read More ›
Women Resisting Violence – Podcast
‘The government wants to erase our children’s memory and I can’t allow it as a mother looking for justice.’ On 8 March 2017, 56 girls were locked in a classroom of their state-run children’s home just outside Guatemala City when… Read More ›
Children’s home fire: ‘The souls of our daughters are still there’
Mira Galanova writes, on the BBC, about the fire that took place in the care home, Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción, on March 8th 2017, and the stories of those left behind. There were 41 deaths of young women… Read More ›
#NosDuelen56 – The Hogar Seguro fire, four years on
March 8th, as well as being International Women’s Day, is also the anniversary of the death of 41 young women and girls, in 2017, in the Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción, (Virgin of the Assumption Safe Home) in San… Read More ›
PBI-Guatemala accompanies BDH law firm at hearing on the Hogar Seguro shelter fire
Brent Patterson has written in the PBI website about the accompaniment carried out by PBI with the Human Rights law firm, BDH, at the hearing on the Hogar Seguro shelter fire. In February 2019, 12 people were detained on charges… Read More ›
Three years after the fire that killed 41 girls in Guatemala
By Frauke Decoodt – this English translation courtesy of Confidencial. “I don’t want anyone to wish me a Happy Women’s Day on March 8th,” recently said Brendy Cuy Urizar. Elsa Siquín Montafúr doesn’t celebrate this day either. Brendy is the… Read More ›
Guatemala: violence against women
On International Women’s Day gender equity is still a long way off. Nathalie Mercier, of Christian Aid, writes in LAB – Latin America Bureau. The 8th March is celebrated as International Women’s Day. However, in Guatemala for the past three… Read More ›
Anniversary of the fire in the Hogar Seguro
It is now just three years since the fire in the Virgin of the Assumption ‘Safe/Secure’ Home (Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción) in San José Pinula, some 25 km from Guatemala City. While their lives can never be returned,… Read More ›
Hell is not a Metaphor for this Place
‘Children killed by a disastrous state – we will not forget them’ “This is one of those columns that should never have to be written because the deaths of 40 children in a ‘safe’ Home, in the charge of the… Read More ›
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