Angela Castellanos has over 20 years experience as communications consultant for development projects and as a journalist. That includes 17 years working as an international correspondent reporting on women issues in Latin America, for global press agencies, digital news services, international magazines, and local media. Angela is member of ORBICOM, International Network of UNESCO Chairs in Communications. She holds a postgraduate degree in Science of Information and Press from the University of Paris, and graduated from the Faculty of Social Communications and Journalism from the Externado de Colombia University. She has been appointed as university professor as well as invited as a speaker to relevant international summits and seminars on communications, feminism and women’s portrayal in the media. Her work can be also be found at www.geocities.com/angela_castellanos_aranguren.
In mid-October, the Peruvian Constitutional Court—the highest court in Peru–issued a ruling banning the free distribution in the public health system of the Emergency Contraception pill.
Revisions in Peru’s Penal Code may lead to decriminalizing abortion in cases of rape or severe disability of the fetus. But conservative political and religious forces are, predictably, opposing these changes.
In Chile, a conservative country in which women’s rights are contested on many levels, there is an ongoing struggle to make emergency contraception available to women at all income levels.
In Chile, women’s rights are
perhaps even more contested than in other countries in Latin America. It is the
only country in the region where the law grants men the right to “manage the
patrimony” of their marriage. It
was the last country in the region to legalize divorce. And it is one of the
few countries in the world where therapeutic abortion is criminalized.
In Chile, a conservative country in which women’s rights are contested on many levels, there is an ongoing struggle to make emergency contraception more accessible to women at every level of income.
Initiatives in Bolivia are using new approaches to increasing access to high quality sexual and reproductive health services for all women in multi-cultural settings.
Earlier this month, 150 Mexican women from the state of Morelos asked the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), review constitutional reforms defining personhood as beginning at the moment of conception.
Think concerns over “egg-as-person” laws in the US are overblown? In Nicaragua, pregnant women suffering from cancer are refused appropriate treatment and girls pregnant as a result of rape are compelled to carry to term, to name just a few…
The Mexican State, the metropolitan area which surrounds the capital is implementing an HPV vaccination campaign aimed at students in the sixth grade.
Proposed reforms in Spain’s abortion laws recommended by a government-appointed commission of doctors, lawyers, academics and government
representatives have the Catholic Church up in arms.
