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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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]
At the same time, many countries across Latin America still suffer from soaring rates of violence against women, including disappearances and slayings of women, known as femicide. 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.
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 ...
Latin America has incredibly high rates of femicide; according to a study at least 12 women suffer from gender-based violence daily. Additionally, 14 out of the 25 countries with the highest rates of gender-based violence can be found in Latin America. [8] The primary age group that is a victim of this sort of violence are young women aged 15 ...