article_snippet.sent: In 2008, the Congress passed a law against femicide.
article_snippet.sent: Two years later the attorney general's office created a specialized court to try femicides and other violent crimes against women.
article_snippet.sent: The Guatemalan government has also established a special 24-hour court to attend to femicide cases.
article_snippet.sent: On the global front, the International Violence Against Women Act was introduced in the U.S. Congress in 2007; the International Violence Against Women Act has been pending ever since.
article_snippet.sent: But last week the International Violence Against Women Act was reintroduced in both the House and Senate.
article_snippet.sent: If approved, approved would make reducing levels of gender-based violence a U.S. foreign policy priority.