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.
For the first time since abortion was decriminalized in 2006, the government fined a hospital for refusing a legal abortion.
For the first time, research on gender and HIV in Colombia is focused not solely on "groups at risk," but on the social context and conditions that increase the vulnerability among women to HIV transmission.
Regardless of age or
province of residence, all Spanish women will have access to emergency
contraception pill without a prescription. It will be in pharmacies by
August.
In April, the Parliament of Honduras approved in a bill prohibiting the promotion, commercialization, free distribution and use of EC pills.
In 2007 the Mexican Supreme Court upheld a law which decriminalized abortion in Mexico City. Since then, twelve Mexican states have approved constitutional reforms defining personhood as beginning at the moment of conception.
An aggressive advocacy campaign by the Catholic Church has resulted in changes in the Constitution of the Dominican Republic protecting “the right to life” from the moment of conception to death.
The President of Brazil’s Catholics for Choice talks about the impact of the Church’s excommunication (and later retraction) of the mother and doctors of a nine-year-old girl who sought an abortion.
Colombian LGBT organizations recognized some legal advancement regarding equal rights, but noted that the progress was due to legal demands made by individuals, not a consequence of a public policy or a legislative action.
After a year of unsuccessful lawsuits, a woman living with HIV and sterilized without her consent filed a complaint against Chile before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
A survey of youth in Bogota found most are making autonomous, independent decisions about their sexual lives.
