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Chile’s Homemakers Sign Up for Pension Reform

By Matt Malinowski ● Employment ● January 13, 2009

Since Chile’s announcement of a public pension reform that extends to unpaid homemakers, applications by women have been pouring in. President Bachelet portrays the reform as a major fulfillment of her commitment to women’s financial security.

Chile Birth-Control Case Spurs ‘Apostasy’ Planning

By Matt Malinowski ● Health & Science ● April 25, 2008

Chilean judges, siding with the Vatican, have dealt a major blow to the Bachelet government by ending free emergency contraception in public clinics. A women’s rights group is organizing a mass renunciation of Catholicism to express their outrage.

Chile’s Morning-After Pill Hits Access Battle

By Matt Malinowski ● Health & Science ● January 31, 2008

Chile’s plan to ensure wide availability of emergency contraception is running into resistance. One group of politicians has filed a lawsuit to block access and three pharmaceutical chains have balked at selling it.

Thousands of Chileans to March Against Femicide

By Matt Malinowski ● Politics ● November 4, 2007

Safety advocates in Chile are planning nighttime marches across the country to protest the growing number of women killed by domestic violence; President Michelle Bachelet has proposed related legislation to be debated in coming weeks.

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Chile’s Homemakers Sign Up for Pension Reform

Chile Birth-Control Case Spurs ‘Apostasy’ Planning

Chile’s Morning-After Pill Hits Access Battle

Thousands of Chileans to March Against Femicide