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Governments are telling women to restrict pregnancies in Latin America. Women’s advocates say that puts reproductive rights at the center of the public health response to the Zika virus.
Many women who have been driven from their homes by Colombia’s sprawling, multi-layered conflict don’t intend to use a new law to try to regain their land. Going home still seems too dangerous.
States should guarantee paid time off for sickness. Too many workers–mostly women–are prepping food and providing healthcare when they should be home with the flu. Second of four in a series by Women Employed’s Melissa Josephs.
A new wave of programs is gently stirring young Colombians in violent cities to talk about their lives. Organizers say their goal is to help women think about protecting themselves and their children from family violence.
Unlike U.S. women, Colombian women have made great strides in the political arena in a short period of time, says Barbara Frechette in the book “Sharing Power.” In this excerpt, she compares this progression to the one in the United States.
Colombia’s President Uribe is the strong frontrunner in the May 28 election. But challenger Carlos Gaviria, a supporter of abortion rights, is gaining ground and could force a runoff.
A 29-year-old lawyer in Colombia has filed a landmark case with the country’s Constitutional Court that seeks to decriminalize abortion in the predominantly Catholic nation. Women’s rights activists are cheering her on.
Colombia’s high court frees a woman jailed for more than six years on charges she murdered her infant. Her version–that she was raped, hid the pregnancy and gave birth to a stillborn infant–was never investigated by local authorities.
Women rebels fighting the Colombian government live the lives of soldiers in training camps, yet have little expectation of promotion, have no control over their reproductive lives and face death if they dare to leave.
Colombia, obsessed with physical beauty, is also obsessed with a soap opera starring an unattractive financial whiz who repeatedly saves her inept boss from ruin. Viewers also are forced to take a hard look in the mirror and think about true beauty.