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Facing risk of rape, migrant women prepare with birth control
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Mar 14, 2014
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Facing risk of rape, migrant women prepare with birth control
Rape is one of the most widely known risks for women migrants crossing the US-Mexico border. and yet justice for those crimes is almost always elusive.
A poster hanging in a migrant shelter in Nogales, Mexico. The text reads "I have the right to be respected physically, sexually and psychologically," in Spanish.
A poster hanging in a migrant shelter in Nogales, Mexico. The text reads "I have the right to be respected physically, sexually and psychologically," in Spanish.
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Jude Joffe-Block
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Rape is one of the most widely known risks for women migrants crossing the US-Mexico border. and yet justice for those crimes is almost always elusive.

Rape is one of the most widely known risks for women migrants crossing the US-Mexico border. and yet justice for those crimes is almost always elusive.

From the Fronteras Desk, as Jude Joffe-Block reports about the women who make the journey and what they can do to prepare for that grim possibility.