On 14 January 2014 the closing ceremony of the VII course on Women Leadership was held in the municipality of Antiguo

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Buenos Aires, Sep 16 (Prensa Latina) Nobel Peace laureate Rigoberta Menchu said today that after many long years of g

The long struggle for justice has come to a point of resolution this week as the High Impact Court “A”cou

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A new report published by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) in collaboration

“The things we have in common are that our sons or daughters are disappeared, and that we can organize from our

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Last month saw two major stories involving sexual abuse in the headlines of Nicaraguan newspapers.

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Carla lost everything when she got pregnant at the age of 13: her first year of secondary school, her family, her boy

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In 1982, the Guatemalan Army attacked a tiny village in the desolate northern region of Peten, raping, torturing and

Quietly and against the odds, women are stepping up the political ladder in Latin America, moving ahead of the United

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The news of the day was that Democratic representatives walked out of a hearing on “religious liberty and birth

It was 1996 when Micaela Flores and 15 other women from Peru's highlands accepted an ambulance ride to a Cuzco clinic