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After many years of campaigning, Argentina’s feminist movements booked a historic victory at the end of 2020 when abortion was finally legalized.
On December 30, 2020, at 4am, Argentina’s senate voted on an issue the whole nation had been waiting for: whether or not to legalize abortion.
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The right to abortion is a major achievement of women and the fruit of a long fight for their rights. After a 9th presentation to the Parliament - the first presentation of the bill took place on May 28, 2007 - abortion is now legal in Argentina.
This is an achievement of the feminist (...)
As Argentina’s upper house prepares for its historic vote on abortion rights, Verónica Gago, our leading theorist of the Feminist International, discusses how the struggle around abortion has opened up the central question of ’political decision’ for those typically excluded from politics.
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Argentina’s feminist movement is grappling with the death of Diego Maradona, the popular football hero with a history of violence against women.
November 25 is the International Day Against Domestic Violence. On this very day, Diego Maradona, the Argentine millionaire and slum-born footballer, (...)
In the country of Pope Francis, under the neoliberal government of conservative Mauricio Macri, the feminist movement won a historic approval by the Chamber of Deputies (the lower house of Argentina’s congress) for the Interrupción Voluntaria del Embarazo (IVE), or Voluntary Termination of (...)
Campaigners condemn authorities who ignored girl’s plea ‘to remove what the old man put inside me’
An 11-year old girl who became pregnant after being raped was forced to give birth after Argentine authorities refused to allow her the abortion to which she was entitled.
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More than 3,700 people submit apostasy requests in protest against anti-abortion campaign
Thousands of Argentinians – most of them women – have started formal proceedings to abandon the Catholic church, in protest of the church’s campaign against efforts to legalise abortion in the country.
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A bill to legalize abortion narrowly failed in the Argentinian Senate. But feminist movements have already effected a social revolution in South America.
On August 8 the Argentine Senate, by a narrow margin, voted down the Law of Voluntary Pregnancy Interruption (IVE), which would have (...)
Lawmakers vote against allowing elective abortion in first 14 weeks of pregnancy
Argentina’s senate has rejected a bill to legalise abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.
Lawmakers debated for more than 15 hours and voted 38 against to 31 in favour, despite the fact opinion polls showed (...)
Senate votes on bill opposed by Catholic church and pope that would legalise abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy
Ana María Acevedo was a 19-year-old housemaid and already the mother of three children when she was diagnosed with cancer of the jaw.
Her prognosis took a turn for the worse (...)
Update
After a long debate, the Argentine Senate refused to legalize abortion by a 38-31 vote early Thursday morning. As senators deliberated, hundreds of thousands of women — maybe as many as 1 million — flooded Buenos Aires despite bad weather to demand their right to legal, safe and free (...)
Today in Argentina we see a battle for political spirituality in the streets, in houses, in beds, and in schools.
Feminism speaks of bodies at the same time that it raises a dispute about political spirituality. That is political precisely because it does not separate the body from the (...)
Hundreds of thousands of women took to the streets in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on June 4 to demand an end to violence against women, and for the Congress to vote in favor of legal, safe and free abortion when it debates the question starting on June 13.
The movement is called Ni Una Menos, (...)
We were born from the confluence that is taking place between workers in neighborhoods, in factories, in the popular economy, between domestic workers, care workers, precarious workers, among those organized in unions and multiple other feminist collectives, among those who don’t have a visible (...)
March is always a month of upheaval in Argentinian politics, but this year it has been exceptionally heated. According to organisers, International Women’s Day saw as many as 700,000 women protest in the capital of Buenos Aires, with the question of free, safe and legal, abortion taking (...)
Cecilia Palmeiro on the Ni Una Menos Campaign in Argentina and how the idea of a women’s strike spread into an international phenomena.
The idea of a women’s strike, as a radical measure of force that could mark the beginning of a new age of feminist struggles, has been around in the collective (...)
Almost 70 thousand militants participated on the awaited closure march of the 32° National Women’s Encounter in Chaco. The march was well organized. There was no repression, only a little group that intended to provoke at plain sight of massive media.
“Listen Women, Join the Fight”. With a (...)
When Argentinian women strike tomorrow, they’ll do so in resistance to a terrifying wave of femicides.
The March 8 Women’s Strike will bring women all over the world together, showing us possible connections within an emerging women’s international. In this regard, Latin America offers us an (...)
“We are housewives, workers, business, workers, unemployed, activists, artists, mothers and daughters, maids ... that you see on the street, those in your neighborhood ... those who walk alone or accompanied, those who decide to abort or not ..., those who decide how and with whom their (...)
Ni Una Menos demonstrations spurred by rape and killing of 16-year-old Lucía Pérez as thousands of protesters call for action on crimes against women.
The crowd of women packed into the historic square of Plaza de Mayo in downtown Buenos Aires under the freezing rain was so vast that some had (...)
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