World Report 2022: Argentina Human Rights Watch

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.

• Argentinians, like many in Latin America, call the phenomenon femicidio, highlighting the female victim whose murder is often, though not exclusively, perpetrated by an intimate partner.
• “Women started talking about their experiences or experiences of a friend. Families started talking about it at the dinner table. Everybody started realizing that they knew someone who had an abortion or they themselves had an abortion,” Casas said.
• The 2009 law on violence against women (Law 26.485) has comprehensive provisions against sexual violence, including sexual violence within marriage (in particular Article 5).
• To date, researchers have successfully cured two other people therapeutically — in both cases through complex and dangerous stem cell transplants.
• The movement grew to encompass not only a call to end femicide but also a campaign to bring awareness to other forms of female discrimination in Argentina.

“Now comes a moment of feminist pedagogy about this right to be able to speak about and explain to as many people as possible that this is a right that we have and that we are citizens who can make our own decisions about our bodies.” In 2018, the #NiUnaMenos movement transitioned into the Green Wave demonstrations, which call for legal and safe access to abortions in Latin America. Years later, “this massive mobilization was also able to draw attention to another longstanding fight which was reproductive health and rights,” Ximena Casas tells NPR. She is an Americas Researcher for the women’s rights division at Human Rights Watch in Madrid. Her death, along with other similar high-profile murders of young women in Argentina at the time, was a breaking point for women there. Six years on, the work of #NiUnaMenos activists in Latin America continues Ni Una Menos, or Not One Less, started out in Argentina as a slogan chanted by thousands https://latindate.org/south-american-women/argentinian-women/ protesting the murders of young women.

Pharmaceutical companies such as Gilead Sciences and ViiV Healthcare are also investing in the pursuit https://www.webappsfinder.com/2023/02/14/study-of-women-and-gender-dominican-university/ 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 http://www.seobia.gq/2023/02/11/where-sexism-and-racism-meet-the-danger-of-existing-as-an-asian-american-woman-georgetown-journal-of-gender-and-the-law-georgetown-law/ 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.

Violence against women and girls

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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.

Indigenous Rights

It is also strengthening key institutions involved in the national fight against femicide, and liaising with artists, influencers and athletes to promote gender-based violence prevention in different settings and groups. During the first year after Congress approved the law for the decriminalization and legalization of abortion within the first 14 weeks of pregnancy, challenges persisted over implementation. No jurisdiction, either national or local, undertook a mass campaign to provide information on access to abortion. There were reports of abusive use of conscientious objection clauses, delays in public and private sector facilities and the collapse of the national 0800 hotline for abortion consultations and referrals.

The Ombudsperson’s Office

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. With regard to the organization of family life, Argentina has a history of social conservatism, and the influence of Catholicism in Argentina has been very strong throughout the 20th century.

A woman holds a placard that reads in Spanish “Neither Dead Nor or in Prison,” during an abortion-rights demonstration on the Day for Decriminalization of Abortion in Latin America, in Mexico City, on Sept. 28, 2021. Women going out into the streets to share their experiences, helped break down the stigma tied to abortion and reproductive health, said Casas, with Human Rights Watch in Madrid. “The abortion law is a starting point, not an ending point,” she said.