Mexico: Indigenous Women Win First Step In Fight Over Military Rape Case

Mexico: Indigenous Women Win First Step In Fight Over Military Rape Case   For more than nine years, two Indigenous women in Mexico have taken on the military and the authorities to demand justice after they were raped by soldiers in the southern state of Guerrero in 2002.   Despite a lengthy investigation and Inter-American Court rulings in favour of Inés Fernández Ortega and Valentina Rosendo Cantú last August, their attackers have remained at large, seemingly shielded by Mexico’s military...

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