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Pages in category "Mexican women's rights activists" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
It includes Mexican human rights activists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Mexican women human rights activists" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
Lorena Borjas (1960–2020) – Mexican-born American transgender and immigrant rights activist, known as the mother of the transgender Latinx community in Queens, New York; Norma V. Cantu (born 1954) – civil rights lawyer and college professor; Carlos Cadena (1917–2001) – attorney in the landmark Hernandez v. Texas supreme court case
Approximately 25% of Mexican women live in rural areas, and of that, only 44% of those use birth control, and their fertility rate, 4.7%, is almost twice that of urban women.” [82] Mexico was even able to incorporate a sexual education program in the schools to educate on contraception, but with many young girls living in rural areas, they ...
María Cecilia Suárez de Garay (Spanish pronunciation: [seˈsilja ˈswaɾes]; born 22 November 1971) [1] is a Mexican actress and activist working with the United Nations and European Union campaigning against femicide and violence against women. She has starred in film, television, and theater across the United States, Mexico, and Spain.
Teenage pregnancy among Mexican women and girls has raised concern. According to official figures from 2021, the latest available, there were 147,279 births among adolescents between 15 and 19 ...
Their father, Nicasio Idar, was a strong and proud man, who advocated for civil rights and social justice for Mexican-Americans. He edited and published La Crónica, which became a major voice for Mexican and Tejano rights. Jovita wrote articles under a pseudonym, exposing the poor living-conditions of Mexican-American workers and supported the ...
The Constitution of 1917 did not explicitly empower women's access to the ballot. In the northern Mexican state of Sonora, Mexican women pushed for more rights for women, including the vote. Emélida Carrillo and school teacher María de Jesús Váldez led the effort. Notably, the movement for Mexican women's rights there was linked to the ...