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Clinics in Mexico Stock ‘Morning-After Pill’

By Theresa Braine ● Uncategorized ● September 22, 2005

Inclusion of the so-called morning-after pill on the list of required medicines in Mexico’s public health clinics has provoked threats of excommunication from the Catholic hierarchy. Users and health professionals applaud the move.

Latin American Business Puts Few Women on Board

By Theresa Braine ● Uncategorized ● August 29, 2005

Latin American companies lag behind the world in promoting women to upper management. Two studies released at a businesswomen’s summit in Mexico earlier this summer may help what some call an extra-thick glass ceiling.

Mothering From Afar Exacts Heavy Price

By Juhie Bhatia & Theresa Braine ● Employment ● May 8, 2005

Mother’s Day usually brings women and children together. But as a growing number of Latin American women migrate to the U.S., many of these women will spend the holiday far from their children–some of whom have forgotten them.

Latin American Women Assess Progress, Barriers

By Theresa Braine ● Politics ● July 12, 2004

Last week’s election of a female governor in Mexico is the kind of political progress recently praised at a meeting of female leaders in Latin America. Yet women’s rights in the region, according to a U.N. report, still have a long way to go.

Juarez Murder Report Leaves Critics Unsatisfied

By Theresa Braine ● Uncategorized ● June 14, 2004

A report on the unsolved murders of women in Ciudad Juarez covers little new ground but fingers negligent state officials.

Juarez March Heightens Pressure to Solve Murders

By Theresa Braine ● Commentary ● February 23, 2004

In Mexico, a Valentine’s Day march organized by V-Day focused more international attention on the brutal murders of hundreds of women in Juarez. Activists hope it will add to the political pressure to solve the murders.

U.S. Reps in Mexico Pressing Murder Investigation

By Theresa Braine ● Uncategorized ● October 23, 2003

U.S. lawmakers arrive in Mexico City, adding to the international pressure on local and state authorities in Mexico to solve the decade-long series of murders of young women.

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