Category: Feminisms

Mexico has its first woman president. Here’s why that matters

October 3, 2024

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.

Latin America will be all feminist!

April 9, 2024

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.

Argentina, Brazil, Mexico show progress and fragility of sexual and reproductive rights in Latin America

March 20, 2024

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 tsunami of Argentinean women and diversities

March 20, 2024

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”. 

A March 8th in Honduras: a Breath of Justice

March 20, 2024

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. 

The liberal and libertarian project in Argentina: the six hardest blows against women’s and vulnerable sectors’ rights

March 20, 2024

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.