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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 ...
Double Militancia developed in various national liberation movements and movement spaces in Latin America. Across Latin American countries, women participated in organizations, parties, and movements for national liberation from foreign imperialism alongside men, but they commonly experienced gender discrimination within these spaces. In ...
Festival Latinidades is an annual meeting dedicated to black culture, held in Brasília since 2008. [1] [2] The Festival Latinidades is an annual event that celebrates the International Day of Black Latin American and Caribbean Women (also known as the International Afro-descendant Women's Day) on 25 July since 1992. [3]
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.
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.
In turn, this led to a surge in women's activists coming together across the globe [6] [7] and the development of the Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encuentros. [ 8 ] The diverse struggles of women throughout Latin America and the Caribbean had led by the 1970s to a rejection of feminism and the dubbing of women's movements as bourgeois ...
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.