indigenous women
As a Native woman, I am entitled to advocate for choice from within my culture, which has always valued women's choices and decision-making.
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The leadership of Barack Obama in the United States of America is good for Native people, and you can sure as hell bet that a whole lot of us voted for him, and are counting on him to really care about the issues we are facing.
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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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