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Quito, Sep 28 (EFE).- Latin America commemorated International Safe Abortion Day on Tuesday amid battles taking place in courts, across governmental bodies and on the streets.In the region, Argentina, Cuba, Uruguay, Guyana and four Mexican territories have decriminalized abortion.However, in Colombia, Chile, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Bolivia and Peru, abortion is illegal except in cases such as rape, fetal abnormalities incompatible with life or risk to the life of the mother. (Camera: JOSE JACOME).SHOT LIST: A PRO-ABORTION DEMONSTRATION IN QUITO, ECUADOR.
Quito, Sep 15 (EFE) - Around a thousand people marched through the streets of downtown Quito Wednesday in a new protest against President Guillermo Lasso, to whom they demand urgent measures to face the economic and social crisis that the country has been experiencing since 2019 which has been aggravated by the pandemic. (Camera: JOSE JACOME)SHOT LIST: PROTEST AGAINST ECUAFORIAN PRESIDENT GUILLERMO LASSO IN QUITO, ECUADOR.
Bogota, May 4 (EFE).- Colombian migrants supported by Ecuadorian activists held a protest Tuesday outside the Colombian Embassy in Quito, to join the demonstrations taking place in their countries of origin against police violence. (Camera: JUAN FRANCISCO CHÁVEZ).SHOT LIST: PROTESTERS OUTSIDE THE COLOMBIAN EMBASSY IN QUITO, ECUADOR.
Thousands gather in Paris for a demonstration calling for an end to gender violence and femicide in a country where at least 116 women have been killed by present or former partners this year. The march in the French capital began near the main opera house with several protesters holding up signs of a relative or friend killed in gender violence. IMAGES
Thousands of women, clad in white, marched in the Guinean capital of Conakry on Wednesday in protest at a violent crackdown on political demonstrations following elections last month. IMAGES
Thousands of people take to the streets of Sanaa in protest against overnight US and British strikes on Yemen's Huthis. An ally of Hamas, the Iran-backed group has carried out a growing number of attacks on Red Sea shipping in solidarity with Gaza. IMAGES