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A small group of Indigenous women in northern Guyana are the latest weapon in the fight against climate change in this South American country where 90% of the population lives below sea level.
It’s a pandemic within the pandemic. Across Latin America, gender-based violence has spiked since COVID-19 broke out.Almost 1,200 women disappeared in Peru between March 11 and June 30, the ...
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.
One of the newest and most controversial in terms of radical actions, is the Indigenous Democracy Defense Organization or IDDO, [17] it has created an Indigenous all volunteer'Foreign Legion' that has taken the defense of Indigenous rights to unprecedented / albeit still technically legal -levels, in various countries of Latin America, such as ...
The conference connected women to other women in their struggles, [5] as well as increasing governmental understanding of the needs of their constituent women. 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]
Today, there are also feminist groups that have spread to the United States. For example, The Latina Feminist Group formed in the 1990s is composed of women from all places in Latin America. Although groups like these are local, they are all-inclusive groups that accept members from all parts of Latin America.
Latin America is home to 42 million indigenous people, making up about 8% of the population, according to World Bank data, yet their way of life is already threatened by rapid development in ...
Rigoberta Menchú Tum (Spanish: [riɣoˈβeɾta menˈtʃu]; born 9 January 1959) [1] is a K'iche' Guatemalan human rights activist, feminist, [2] and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. . Menchú has dedicated her life to publicizing the rights of Guatemala's Indigenous peoples during and after the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996), and to promoting Indigenous rights international