Improving Buildings and Lives Across Latin America – with Women as Leaders
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While our region represents a dazzling diversity of cultures, climate and innovation, it also faces huge environmental, social and economic challenges.
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Latin American Indigenous Women Hold NYC Tribunal
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To puncture official indifference, Latin American indigenous women are staging a tribunal on the sidelines of a U.N. permanent forum “to push back the invisibility” about what they suffer. “The justice system really doesn’t work for us,” says one.
Migration
Mothering From Afar Exacts Heavy Price
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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.
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Illegal Abortions Rampant in Latin America
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Five thousand women die from clandestine abortions every year in Latin America. It has one of the highest abortion rates in the world, despite its near-universal illegality.