User:SusunW/Marta Sánchez Soler

http://nobelwomensinitiative.org/meet-martha-sanchez-soler-mexico/ NOT REALLY A RS, but maybe can be gleaned for other search info? http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/04/23/fearing-rape-female-migrants-are-taking-birth-control-before-crossing-border.html

Marta Sánchez Soler (born 1941) is a French-born, daughter of Spanish refugees, who resides in Mexico and works as a sociologist and activist for migrants and the disappeared. She is the president of Migrante Movement Mesoamerican (MMM), a movement initiated in 2004, to help mothers of missing migrants locate their missing children. In 2016, she was one of the 100 Women featured by the BBC as influential in their fields.

Early life
Marta Fernanda Sánchez Soler was born in France in 1941 to refugees fleeing Fascist Spain. She was raised in Mexico and then completed her university studies in the United States, majoring in social science at San Diego State University of California. Her second husband, José Jacques y Medina, was a student activist, who fled to the United States to avoid an arrest for protest during the Mexican Student Movement of 1968.

Career
In the early part of her career, Sánchez worked as a teacher in marginalized area of Southern California. Then she spent many years working with impoverished populations. Through the 1990s Sánchez worked in education and defending the human rights of marginalized people. Then she turned her attention to advocacy for migrants. In 2005, she helped establish the Caravan of Central American mothers, in which mothers search for their children who may have been arrested, kidnapped, or disappeared on their journey through Mexico to the U.S. Each year, since founding the group, mothers from throughout Central American countries, gather and search along migration routes for family members who have gone missing. To raise awareness of the issue, Sánchez participates in conferences, like the 2nd Mesoamerican Meeting of Human Rights Defenders (II Encuentro Mesoamericano de Defensoras de Derechos Humanos) held in El Salvador in 2013.

In 2006, Sánchez and her husband, founded the Mesoamerican Migrant Movement, to better facilitate the caravans and press for government action to protect migrants. Traveling the length of Mexico, but focusing on the southeastern border where most migrants enter the country, Sánchez has led groups for over a decade resulting in locating more than 250 Central Americans among the missing.

Sánchez and three other activists, Pilar Arrese Alcala, Claudia Medina Tamariz and Brenda Rangel Ortiz attended the North American Leaders' Summit in mid-2016 to urge the leaders of Canada, Mexico and the United States to deal with the problems of detention, disappearance and torture, which has plagued various states in Mexico during the last decade as fallout from the War on Drugs.