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Covenant House Opens New Boys Residence in Guatemala
In recent years, reports on trafficking from the national human rights office and the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala, and from the Inter-American Forum on Combatting Human Trafficking have consistently called out the need to create programs to care for young and adolescent boys who are survivors of sexual violence and human trafficking.
Carolina Escobar Sarti, national director of Covenant House Guatemala, participated in the recent gathering of the Inter-American Forum on Combating Human Trafficking in Colombia, where, she said, “Representatives of various countries, from Canada to Chile, expressed this same need.”
Now, as we approach World Day Against Trafficking in Persons on July 30, Covenant House is proud to announce that, with support from the U.S. Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (JTIP), we have taken a huge step toward meeting that need with the opening of a new boys shelter — the first program of its kind in Guatemala and the region.
Carolina and our Covenant House Guatemala staff celebrated a ribbon-cutting ceremony in May to mark the opening of the new residence, located in San Juan del Obispo, about 25 miles west of the capital. It is our third Covenant House site in
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Stories of Courage and Healing: Speaking Out on Gender-Based Violence in Central America
Illustrated portrait collage of Isabel*, Carolina Escobar Sarti, Bianka Rodríguez and Valentina Duque. © Ladan Lajevardi
Gender-based violence is one of the main factors driving women, girls and members of the LGBTQ+ community to flee their homes in Central America. At the same time, it is one of the key risks they face in their search for safety.
By Jacky Habib with files from Caro Rolando, Lead Podcasting
Hundreds of thousands of families and young women and men in Central America have had to make an impossible choice: leave their homes or die. To find safety, they undertake dangerous journeys.
For women and girls in all their diversity, gender-based violence is one of the main reasons they are forced to flee their homes.
El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala are among the top five countries that registered the highest rate of femicides in Latin America, and among the highest world. While this is the most extreme expression of violence against women and girls in the region, it is just one manifestation of the types of violence based on gender in the region – that can include exposure to exploitation, trafficking, assault and rape.
Unfortunately, violence also continues during
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Carolina Escobar Sarti
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