As a member of the Advisory Board of the Women and Media Observatory, the Presidential Secretariat for Women (SEPREM) supported the media-monitoring project, which resulted in a study that permitted the discussion of operational concepts and communication products that would provide a glimpse of the world of the media and how it perceives women. One further outcome was the first annual monitoring report of the Women and Media Observatory 2006-2007. The study covered a numberof issues, including violence against women, domestic violence, sexuality, maternal mortality, abortion, HIV and discrimination. In the case of media coverage of violence against indigenous women, for instance, it found references to “Maya punishment” (the term used by the media) in pieces on the enforcement of Maya judgments in the department of Sololá, western Guatemala, where the majority of the population are indigenous.