Seeks GLPRD to Guarantee Legal Advice to Women Who Have Been Raped

In order to strengthen access to justice for women victims of gender-based violence, the PRD bench in the Local Congress presented a reform initiative to ensure specialized and free legal advice. Congresswoman Perla Villarreal Valdez stressed that the amendment to the Law on Women's Access to a Life Free of Violence seeks not only to ensure the protection of women's rights, but also reinforces the State's obligation to guarantee access to justic…

Photos by Ana María Abruña Reyes While organizations that offer direct services to survivors of gender-based violence and that work with the issue in Puerto Rico remain alert and delineating strategies to the threat of the United States government to cut much of the funds that sustain their work, the newly confirmed Women's Attorney General, Astrid Piñeiro Vázquez, claims that it is very premature to act. On May 2, the director of the U.S. Burea…

While organizations that offer direct services to survivors of gender-based violence and that work with the issue in Puerto Rico remain on the alert and delineating strategies against the threat of the United States Government to cut much of the funds that sustain their work, the newly confirmed Women's Attorney General, Astrid Piñeiro Vázquez, claims that it is very premature to act. On May 2, the director of the U.S. Bureau of Management and B…