#BeBoldforChange Stories of Argentine Women U S Embassy in Argentina

The National Council of Women carries out programs to promote equal social, political, and economic opportunities for women. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. On 11 June, Josué Lagos, a 23-year-old member of the Qom Indigenous people was shot by a member of the Chaco province security forces during a police operation. 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. The Comprehensive Approach to Institutional Violence by police officials in the Security and Penitentiary Services Bill remained pending before the Lower House at the end of the year. Sex workers’ movements reported an increase in harassment and arbitrary detentions by the City of Buenos Aires security forces in the context of Covid-19 restrictions.

  • Whatever she does, however, she hopes to continue linking the public and private worlds that so often resist one another.
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  • Spotlight initiative, a global campaign focused on combating gender-based violence worldwide.
  • But this time feels a bit different, some activists and human rights watchers say.
  • Women, however, continue to face numerous systemic challenges common to those in other nations.

A collection of objects symbolising the barriers to abortion in Argentina, despite it being legal since 2020. Following Bahillo’s death, Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández said, “We must end these events definitively in Argentina. We must be inflexible with the perpetrators of these cases.”

Spotlight initiative, a global campaign focused on combating gender-based violence worldwide. In December 2020, Argentina’s Congress passed a landmark bill to legalize abortion up to the 14th week of pregnancy.

Violence against women and girls

We started a group on WhatsApp called “Women in Government” — a network of more than 250 women. And we get together, we have discussions, we share experiences and help one another. It’s important because we come from a culture that is male dominated and it’s easier for men to team up. So each woman and feminist who joins the government is opening up doors to change things. Before President Fernández’s administration, we didn’t have any of these things that we are now looking at. We understand that the work done by women at home, including care work, is a fundamental pillar of social life and the economy.

It’s a case that highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic has made violence against women in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru and other countries worse, according to Beatriz Nice, a program assistant for the Wilson Center’s Latin American Program. In 2018, the International Monetary Fund and the Macri administration agreed on a US$57 billion loan. At time of writing, the Fernández administration was re-negotiating the IMF loan amid a deep economic crisis that predates the pandemic and was deepened by it. The crisis has severely impacted people living in poverty, who according to government statistics amount to 40 percent of the population.

Supporting rural and Indigenous women in Argentina as gender-based violence rises during the COVID-19 pandemic

Soledad Deza, a lawyer in Tucumán province, has been involved in numerous cases where women have been prosecuted for obstetric emergencies, including a 30-year-old who was recently acquitted of murder after spending nine months on remand. Human rights groupshave begun travelling around the country, visiting jails and advocates to identify other cases and offer legal support to women.

Argentina hosted a virtual summit on climate change in September 2021 with representatives from Latin American and Caribbean countries, the US special envoy on climate change, and the UN secretary-general. However, Argentina’s foreign policy towards Venezuela and Nicaragua has been inconsistent. It abstained from an Organization of American States resolution rejecting Venezuela’s December 2020 elections, which are widely considered to http://mueang.yala.doae.go.th/2022/12/27/easternhoneys-reviews-upd-legit-or-scam/ have been fraudulent. It also abstained, in June and October 2021, from OAS resolutions condemning arrests of Nicaraguan presidential opposition candidates and critics. Argentina and Mexico, which also abstained in both opportunities, issued a statement justifying their June decision under the principle of non-intervention in the internal affairs of states. 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. In 2010, Argentina became the first Latin American country to legalize same-sex marriage.

The Executive Branch approved the extension of Emergency Law 26,160 ordering the suspension of evictions of Indigenous communities. However, the National Institute for Indigenous Affairs barely made any progress in carrying out the survey of Indigenous territories mandated by the same law, with just 43% of the survey completed by the end of the year. By December, at least 37 judicial actions had been initiated against the abortion law. According to official figures, by June, 40.6% of the population was living in poverty and the unemployment rate was 8.6% in the third trimester of the year. Complete songs for voice and piano by Argentinian female composer Irma Urteaga. The Book provides an introductory study in English and Spanish, contextualizing the composer, the songs, and the Argentinian art song´s development. It also provides sheet music, poetry translation into English, and IPA transcription.

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