Aisling Walsh
Bio:
Aisling is an Irish writer and translator who has been based in Guatemala for the last five years where she writes about feminism, human rights and global justice relating both to Ireland and Guatemala. More of her work is available on her website, or follow her on Twitter at @AxliWrites.
In a year when Latin America was swept with protests against gender-based violence from Mexico to Chile, the Encuentro de Mujeres que Luchan, organized by the Zapatista community, welcomed some 4,000 women to the Chiapaneco highlands to unite in transnational feminist solidarity and confront the global crisis of violence against women.
Decades after Guatemala's 36-year internal armed conflict, 36 Maya Achi women are seeking justice against the soldiers who raped them and the officials who gave them the orders.
Two years after the Hogar Virgen de la Asunción orphanage fire in Guatemala, which killed 41 teenaged girls, the truth is still coming to light, and it's far more sinister with every detail.