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Double Militancia was developed out of mass women's participation and leadership in movements for National liberation, which were taking place throughout Latin America. Movements for national liberation arose in response to nationwide conditions of extreme socioeconomic injustice, as large sectors of people developed a Marxist analysis of class ...
Latin American feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and achieving equal political, economic, cultural, personal, and social rights for Latin American women. [1] [2] This includes seeking to establish equal opportunities for women in education and employment. People who practice feminism by advocating or ...
Women across Latin America are bathing their city streets in purple on Friday in commemoration of International Women’s Day at a time when advocates for gender rights in the region are ...
According to figures from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, a woman is killed for gender-related reasons in the continent every two hours. “They’re growing up in countries where, on paper, Latin American women’s lives look like they should be fairly well-treated, but that’s not their experience on the ground.
Brindis de Salas is the first Black woman in Latin America to publish a book. The 1947 title Pregón de Marimorena discussed the exploitation and discrimination against Black women in Uruguay. 24.
Elvia Alvarado (born 1938) is a Honduran human rights activist who has been involved in several peasant organizations. She became a social activist through the Catholic Church, and organized women movements in Honduran cities to distribute food to malnourished children.
Women's rights activists in Latin America have long looked to the United States as a model in their decades-long struggle to chip away at abortion restrictions in their highly religious countries.
The streets of cities across Latin America were bathed in green Thursday as tens of thousands of women marched to commemorate International Safe Abortion Day. Latin American feminists have spent ...