Latin American History 161: Honors Project
Resources for the final honors research project.
Women in Latin America: Resources
Gender Violence in Latin America
Accessing Justice: Femicide and the Rule of Law in Latin America (3:03)
Gender Gap/Women's Empowerment
- These Three Feminists Are Changing Argentina From the Inside
Paying women for unpaid work at home. Delivering food to transgender people. Building day care centers. Bit by bit, these women, appointed by the president to high-ranking positions, are restructuring society.
Meet the women fighting for EQUALITY in Bolivia (6:04)
Simon Reeve meets Yolanda, an indigenous Bolivian woman fighting for representation and equality in South America.
Abortion Laws
- Thousands of women march in Latin American cities calling for abortion rights
The streets of cities across Latin America were bathed in green as tens of thousands of women marched to commemorate International Safe Abortion Day. - A New Border Crossing: Americans Turn to Mexico for AbortionsAmerican women are seeking help from Mexico for abortions, crystallizing the shifting policies of two nations that once held vastly different positions on the procedure.
- Latin American Abortion Laws Hurt Health Care and the Economy—a Lesson for a Post-Roe U.S.
A region with some of the world’s most restrictive abortion laws has started to tentatively move in the opposite direction
Why a growing number of Latin American countries are legalizing abortion (6:03)
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