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By Karim Velasco, RH Reality Check, Latin America August 27, 2008 - 8:00am
New anti-domestic violence law in Guatemala classifies denying a woman the right to use contraceptive methods or STI prevention measures as a violent sex crime.
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By Karim Velasco, RH Reality Check, Latin America August 12, 2008 - 8:00am
One year after legalization of abortion in Mexico City, the procedure has proven to be both necessary and safe.
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By Karim Velasco, RH Reality Check, Latin America July 29, 2008 - 8:00am
Since the nineties, international donor aid has shifted priority away from family planning programs in Latin America. Now women's advocacy groups are trying to bring attention back to their region.
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By Karim Velasco, RH Reality Check, Latin America July 21, 2008 - 8:00am
Despite shocking maternal health indicators, Brazil's Congress recently voted down a bill that would have legalized abortion.
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By Karim Velasco, RH Reality Check, Latin America June 19, 2008 - 8:00am
A new report assessing poverty reduction in Peru analyzes socioeconomic status through many lenses -- except gender.
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By Karim Velasco, RH Reality Check, Latin America June 10, 2008 - 8:00am
Most Latin American countries do not explicitly acknowledge sexual and reproductive rights in their Constitutions. But some Constitutional Courts have still been able to find protection for legal abortion and other reproductive health issues.
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By Karim Velasco, RH Reality Check, Latin America May 22, 2008 - 8:00am
For indigenous women in the Andean and Amazonian areas of Peru, giving birth at health care facilities, in the presence of strangers and lying down, is unbearable. New standards in health care delivery better respect their rights and traditions.
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By Karim Velasco, RH Reality Check, Latin America May 8, 2008 - 8:20am
After more than a hundred years of legally allowing women access to a therapeutic abortion, in October 2006 the Nicaraguan National Assembly banned this procedure in all circumstances. Now women's health groups are working to mitigate the damage.
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