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Ni Una Menos, or Not One Less, started out in Argentina as a slogan chanted by thousands protesting the murders of young women. It eventually spawned a womens rights movement across Latin America.

After 12 hours of discussion in the senate, the law was approved with a much wider margin than anticipated: 38 votes in favour, 29 against and one abstention. The result delighted campaigners, some of whom had been camping outside Argentina’s national congress for two days. As late as the day of the debate, the senators who had declared their positions were evenly split for and against, with four undecided. Abortion has long been the topic of a public debate between feminists, who have demand...

Photo: ECLAC. The President of the Argentine Republic, Alberto Fernández, delivered a virtual keynote lecture this Wednesday, January 27, from the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, in which he advocated for the unity of Latin America and the Caribbean and for strengthening multilateralism to build fairer and more egalitarian societies. The Argentine leader spoke during a high-level event in which Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s E...

Date Time Share Argentina’s President Advocates for Uniting Latin America and Caribbean and Strengthening Multilateralism to Build Fairer and More Alberto Fernández delivered a keynote lecture during a high-level meeting at ECLAC’s headquarters in which the United Nations organization’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, participated along with the Rector of the University of Chile, Ennio Vivaldi. The President of the Argentine Republic, Alberto Fernández, delivered a virtual keynot...

January 22, 2021 6:10 pm Now we need organization and socialist feminism! Marcos Ariel (ISA supporter in Argentina) In a historic day, the morning of December 30 and after 12 hours of debate, the archaic Argentine Senate approved the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy Act (Ley de Interrupción Voluntaria del Embarazo, IVE) by 38 votes in against 29. When the result of the vote was announced, the thousands of Green Tide’ activists — the mass feminist movement which has fought for aborti...

After many years of campaigning, Argentina's feminist movements booked a historic victory at the end of 2020 when abortion was finally legalized.

Abortion Becomes Legal In Argentina As Chile Starts A Debate By Sonia AVALOS 01/14/21 AT 6:39 PM Argentina on Thursday became one of just a handful of Latin American countries to allow elective abortion, as neighboring Chile initiated its own debate on decriminalizing a procedure denied to most women on the continent. President Alberto Fernandez signed a law that allows abortion until 14 weeks of pregnancy that was passed by the Senate on December 30. "Today we have a better, more equal soc...

ACCESS to abortion was signed into law in Argentina on Thursday night following decades of campaigning by women who led a struggle on the streets for the right to choose. President Alberto Fernandez signed the law of Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy that brought an end to the criminalisation of abortion in the South American nation. “We are expanding the women’s right to choose. Women went out to the street claiming for rights that many people did not even realise they lacked,” he sai...

Vigil at the National Congress of Argentina, December 29, 2020. Photo by the author, used with permission. I’ve held feminist views since childhood, long before I was able to call them feminist. My greatest lessons in learning and awareness, however, arrived much more recently. The year 2018 was the point at which I could no longer be a mere political spectator and felt propelled to participate in collective activism, spurred by the first-ever debate by Argentina’s Senate on a bill in supp...

Argentinas Senate voted early on Wednesday to legalize elective abortion in the heavily Catholic country. The Senate passed the bill 38-29 after a debate that went past midnight, according to an NPR report. The voting garnered one abstention just over two weeks after the Chamber of Deputies, which is Argentinas Congress, approved the measure. The move comes after years of organizing within the Argentine abortion-rights movement. Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta, minister of women, genders and diversity...