#BeBoldforChange Stories of Argentine Women U S Embassy in Argentina

The second group is focused on food emergencies, especially with regards to the trans community. Trans people are particularly vulnerable in our country and many, even today, earn a living from prostitution. So we established measures for them, including food delivery to their homes and protections to prevent them from being evicted. The speech came just months after the country became the most populous in Latin America to legalize abortion, fulfilling one of Mr. Fernández’s key promises during his campaign for president.

  • The OGP community will monitor these commitments and soon report on the progress achieved.
  • Before President Fernández’s administration, we didn’t have any of these things that we are now looking at.
  • In 2012, Argentina passed a Gender Identity Law allowing anyone to change their gender and name on identity cards and birth certificates through a simple administrative procedure.
  • The latest available data from the National Registry of Femicides, administered by the Supreme Court, reported 251 femicides—the murder of women based on their gender—and only four convictions, in 2020.
  • The Special Criminal Prosecutor’s Office for Human Rights ordered the release of the only person charged in the case on grounds that there was insufficient evidence to detain him further.

Demonstrators outside the National Congress building watch a livestream of the debate on the law for the “Access to the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy” in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 29, 2020. Women in ArgentinaEx President https://vineetsystems.com/afbeeldingen-over-thai-women-blader-in-stockfotos-vectoren-en-videos-over-216/ of Argentina Cristina Fernández is a woman.

Pharmaceutical companies such as Gilead Sciences and ViiV Healthcare are also investing in the pursuit for a cure of a virus that over the past four decades has killed some 36 million people worldwide. Yu was also the lead author of a paper published in Nature in August 2020 that analyzed 64 people who, like the Argentine woman, are so-called elite controllers of HIV. These are among the estimated 1 in 200 people with HIV whose own immune systems are somehow able to suppress the virus’s replication to very low levels without antiretrovirals. Some kind of work in management would suit her, or perhaps something in the education system. Whatever she does, however, she hopes to continue linking the public and private worlds that so often resist one another. In an environment like Tierra del Fuego where business and government work hand in hand, the world needs more young energetic leaders like Angelica.

“We’re not against men. All we want to do is take apart a system that has abused and hurt women.”

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The police, who arrested her a few days later, say she gave birth to a baby at 39 weeks’ gestation, after the continue reading https://latindate.org/south-american-women/argentinian-women/ body was discovered and reported by someone collecting cardboard for recycling. Nice, who spoke to NPR, co-wrote an essay examining how the pandemic has worsened gender-based violence in the region. And in September, Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled it’s unconstitutional to punish abortion as a crime. The landmark ruling clears the way for the legalization of abortion across the country. She said the major legal victory for abortion rights in Argentina has since launched a domino effect in the region. The Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy Bill permits an abortion to take place throughout the initial 14 weeks of pregnancy.

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While in class with Argentines, female classmates and I fervently discussed our experiences, sharing our stories and the catcall-culture we encountered. When abroad, you are likely to experience uncomfortable aspects of cultural assimilation, but this level of discomfort should never be asked of you—and it wasn’t asked of me. I chose to be relatively private about my experience, but the on-site IFSA office staff immediately swept in to help. You may be trying to practice cultural relativism and extend latitude where you wouldn’t back home, but assault, rape, and sexual harassment are undeniably wrong everywhere and never your fault. The line between necessary cultural adjustment and street harassment is difficult to parse, but it firmly exists. Discomfort is a thing apart from insecurity, and both IFSA staff and Argentine women can help you distinguish between the two and resolve issues that cross that line. By now, the link between authoritarianism and the repression of women and gender nonconforming people is https://bnikakinada.com/2023/01/24/regional-conference-on-women-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-economic-commission-for-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/ clear.

More than 30 women took part in the training, and learned about how to report gender-based violence, resources for accessing services and developing skills for violence prevention. Abortion in Argentina was legalized up to fourteen weeks of pregnancy on 30 December 2020. Previously it was prohibited, and was legal only in cases of rape, or when the woman’s life or health was in danger. The Argentine Penal Code 846 had been amended in 2008 to place stricter sanctions against women who seek an abortion, as well as any medical staff involved in the act.

In 1994, the National Constituent Convention incorporated the ratification of the CEDAW into the text of the new constitution. During the 1990s, some laws began to tackle domestic violence, by empowering police agencies and provincial judicial authorities to establish preventive measures. Despite the creation in 1985 of the Women’s Department under the auspices of the Office of the President, provincial delegations or Women’s Sections still have not been established throughout the entire nation.