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, by CARIBONI Diana
From Uruguay to Chile, medical staff are refusing to provide abortion services even after their legalisation.
Women’s rights to legal abortion have increased in Latin America – but so have campaigns and policies for medical staff to be able to ‘conscientiously object’ and refuse to participate (…)
, by BOESTEN Jelke
As an unprecedented wave of feminist campaigns gains ground across Latin America, a dangerous backlash is afoot on various fronts.
Well before outrage over Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein gave rise to the #MeToo movement in October 2017, feminists throughout Latin America had been using (…)
, by SANATAN Amilcar
For women who built revolutions with their dreams and sewing machines.
“Feminism cannot be monolithic in its issues, goals and strategies, since it constitutes the political expression of the concerns and interests of women from different regions, classes, nationalities, and ethnic (…)
, by GOÑI Uki, WATTS Jonathan
Two different protests, two different countries, but the same continent and the same cause: violence against women in “macho” Latin America.
Demonstrators in Brazil and Argentina will join rallies on Friday that highlight both the persistence of gender violence and a growing campaign to stop (…)
, by GOÑI Uki, WATTS Jonathan
Demonstrators in neighbouring Latin American countries take to the streets in protest against gender violence following horrific recent attacks on young girls.
Two different protests, two different countries, but the same continent and the same cause: violence against women in “macho” Latin (…)
, by DESCHAMPS Marion
Women are at the forefront of Latin America’s most important struggles. teleSUR English looks at the women’s groups that are changing and redefining Latin America politics.
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Mexico’s Comando Colibri: Self-Managed Self-Defense Group
Three years ago, a group of Mexican (…)
, by La Via Campesina
El Salvador has had the highest rate of femicide in the world, with 2, 250 femicides between 2010 and 2013. Guatemala has the third and Honduras the seventh highest rate of femicides. In Guatemala, only 2% of murdered women’s cases were investigated in 2013 and likewise in Honduras less than (…)
, by Feminist Encounter for Latin America
Latin America and the Caribbean XIII Feminist Encounter for Latin America, Lima, Peru, 2014
We as feminists affirm that our bodies are produced and transformed by the social relations in which we are immersed. Thus, in capitalist-neoliberal, colonial, patriarchal, heteronormative and racist (…)
, by PATERSON Kent
On the eve of International Women’s Day 2006, a delegation of Latin American women made a historic journey to Washington, DC. Rather than celebrating the gains women have made through their many struggles, the group arrived at the headquarters of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (…)
, by CARLSEN Laura
Throughout the continent, there is an offensive against the rights of women. The litany of losses or less-than-hoped-for gains announced this International Women’s Day only proved what women across Latin America already knew.
Most law does not recognize the term “sexual rights,” and the (…)
, by Fourth International
Introduction
STARTING with a critical look at the 11th World Congress resolution, “The socialist revolution and the struggle for women’s liberation”, this resolution aims to be a guide to action for our organizations in their central task of organizing a women’s liberation movement - alongside (…)
, by DASHNER MONK Heather
This long article was published in International Marxist Review Vol 2, Number 4 in 1987. It was the background work for the resolution adopted at the 1991 World Congress Dynamics of mass movements and feminist currents-Latin American Women’s Liberation after extensive travel around Latin America (…)
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