Eufrosina Cruz
Zapotec Woman Saluted
Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, visited Oaxaca State in Mexico last week to assess the situation of the indigenous peoples. In the course of her visit, she spoke with Zapotec leaders and encouraged them, particularly the women, to continue to seek their rights. She suggested, according to a Fox News […]
Zapotec Discrimination Against Women—Update
Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza, a Zapotec woman who was denied the right to vote or to run for political office in her hometown, gained international attention for her struggle last year. The Los Angeles Times ran an update story last Friday on how she is doing. It focused on the continuing reactions of Ms. Cruz to […]
Zapotec Discrimination Against Women
Newsweek reported this week that poppy farmers in Afghanistan often get so deeply in debt to their opium buyers that they sell them their underage daughters, for $3,000 to $8,000. But people in poor Muslim nations are not the only ones that consider their women and girls to be little more than chattel. A similar […]
Zapotec Woman Demands Right to Vote
Eufrosina Cruz was fed up with the discrimination. The men in the village told her she was not allowed to vote. Last year, the Zapotec woman decided to disobey the town rule prohibiting women from voting and she ran for mayor. Members of the town board, all of whom are men, tore up the ballots […]
