Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by HENRÍQUEZ Sara, Red Pepper
The brutal state crackdown on anti-government protests has convinced many progressive activists that the Ortega government must be overthrown. Feminists and LGBT activists continue to struggle for peace, democracy and justice – but they face violence and discrimination on a daily basis.
Sara (...)
, by BLANDON María Teresa, VALLE Valentina
María Teresa Blandón, who comes from a rural area in northern Nicaragua and was a guerrilla in the Sandinista revolution, is today one of the most critical voices of Nicaraguan feminism. We met on the premises of the Programa feminista la corriente, a feminist network which, since 1994, has been (...)
, by KELLY Michael
Nicaragua is in the midst of a contentious debate that could become a serious social struggle over the reform of the nation’s Social Security system. President Daniel Ortega’s Sandinista government has proposed to increase the retirement age, the number of years one has to work, and the number of (...)
, by KELLY Michael
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and the Sandinista government have failed the country’s women. That was the message delivered by Azahalea Solís, an attorney and a member of Nicaragua’s Autonomous Women’s Movement, speaking at the Ben Lindner Center in Managua on January 17 to an audience of (...)
, by RIDDELL John
Nicaragua’s adoption this year of a sweeping law for prevention and punishment of violence against women marks an important gain for women’s rights in this Central American country, says Sandra Ramos, founder and director of the “Maria Elena Cuadra” Movement for Working and Unemployed Women (MEC) (...)
, by MURILLO Rosario
The struggle has a female face. Justice has a female face. The demand and the urgent need for dignity and rights has a female face.
In this world, which has been thrown into confusion by the progressive breakdown of the capitalist systems of domination, the calls to ensure Humanity’s present (...)
, by CARROLL Rory
Nicaragua is one of the few countries to prohibit abortion under any circumstances. Nicaraguan authorities have withheld life-saving treatment from a pregnant cancer patient because it could harm the foetus and violate a total ban on abortion.
A state-run hospital has monitored the cancer (...)
Nicaragua’s total ban on abortions is endangering the lives of girls and women, denying them life-saving treatment, preventing health professionals from practicing effective medicine and contributing to an increase in maternal deaths across the country, concludes Amnesty International in a new (...)
, by CARROLL Rory
Cross-party support for bill in run-up to election.
Nicaragua last night voted to outlaw all forms of abortion, including operations to save a pregnant woman’s life, after a campaign by the Catholic church.
The main political parties supported a bill establishing jail sentences of six to 30 (...)
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