With the slogan “It’s time for transformation, it’s time for women!” and shouts of “Presidenta”, Claudia Sheinbaum took office October 1 after winning a landslide victory in Mexico’s presidential election on June 2. She defeated her closest rival, the conservative candidate (and also a woman) Xochitl Galvez, by a thirty-point margin and a vote count of 35 million—a record in the history of Mexican democracy.
The political songs of the sixties needed more women. Today many of the protagonists of protest music in Latin America are women.
March 8, International Women’s Day (IWD), serves as a barometer of the strength of feminist and women’s movements, especially in Latin America where for years people have been mobilizing for women’s rights and women’s lives.
n this installment we present three country notes-Mexico, Argentina and Brazil-on advances and setbacks in access to safe and legal abortion in our continent. The different overviews remind us that while there are moments to celebrate as victories, these gains are not without setbacks, new obstacles or co-optation. The struggle for sexual and reproductive rights in Latin America is constant. That is why our movements are long term.
The main rally was at the Congress, where a document entitled “We were a tide, we will be a tsunami” was read, saying: “With this day of struggle we say that freedom is ours and not of the markets nor of the governments”.
We, feminists, celebrate, because however, we took another step, we advanced and with us, generations, hundreds of women and men, who will have ways out of the violence and will know that it is possible the trial, that so far away for us. We are because we are standing between hope and joy, survivors of terror and sometimes, only sometimes, we can feel something like justice.
Only ten days after assuming the presidency after winning the ballot with 55.7% of the votes, the libertarian liberal Javier Milei signed a Decree of Necessity and Urgency (DNU). In this article we present the 6 blows against the emblematic advances that Argentina had made for women’s rights, for training on gender issues, for the prevention of discrimination and for the protection of nature in the country.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights analyzes the case of Beatriz, a young woman who was denied the possibility of terminating her pregnancy by […]
Gaza City has been practically wiped off the map. Israeli attacks focused on hospitals, which also serve as shelters for the displaced and bombed […]
A few weeks before the first round of elections in Argentina, the far right is ahead in the polls with candidate Javier Milei. Julia Muriel Dominzain of MIRA: Feminisms and Democracies interviews Mercedes D’Alessandro, feminist economist and the first National Director of Economics, Equality and Gender to discuss the achievements and challenges for the feminist agenda in the face of the electoral dispute.
