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Mexico City, 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: MIGUEL ÁNGEL ANDRADE/INÉS AMARELO). SHOT LIST: WOMEN PARTICIPATE IN A DEMONSTRATION TO DEMAND LEGAL AND SAFE ABORTION, IN MEXICO CITY, MEXICO.
Lima, Oct 18 (EFE).- Hundreds of indigenous women across Latin America gathered on Monday in the Peruvian capital, Lima, to defend their rights and demand that their voice be heard. (Camera: MIKHAIL HUACAN).SHOT LIST: INDIGENOUS WOMEN TAKE PART IN A MARCH FOR EQUALITY ON THE OCCASION OF THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF RURAL WOMEN, IN LIMA, PERU.
Buenos Aires/Mexico City/Sao Paulo, Jun 29 (EFE).- (Camera: Javier Castro Bugarín). With hundreds of unprosecuted hate crimes and endemic discrimination, Latin America continues to lag in LGBT rights among rampant violence against the trans community.FOOTAGE OF TRANSSEXUAL ACTIVISTS. SOUNDBITES IN SPANISH OF FLAVIA MASSENZIO, LAWYER AND PRESIDENT OF THE FALGBT FEDERATION AND KENYA CUEVAS, ACTIVIST.TRANSLATION OF TOTALS:“There is still a gender gap, one for the LGBT community at large, but an even more ruthless one with trans people in particular”.“The situation of trans women in Mexico is worrying. There is discrimination and exclusion, no adequate visibility and historic debt”.
Interpol has warned that criminal organizations are planning to infiltrate or disrupt supply chains related to COVID-19 vaccines. But that's not the only way bad guys might try to cash in on the coming global vaccine bonanza. According to Business Insider, groups may try to sell counterfeit or expired vaccines, on a small-scale or a large-scale basis. Criminals may also try to 'sell' vaccines online, in an attempt to steal personal data and credit card numbers. They may also try to extort companies, or hold supply chains hostage in return for ransom money. Finally, they could do a better job than governments at vaccinating neighborhoods, thereby installing themselves as a semi-legitimate, parallel government.
Vice President Kamala Harris says Trump "wants to take America back to 1800s" on abortion in a statement in Tucson, Arizona just days after that southwestern state's conservative supreme court rolled back reproductive rights to the Civil War era, saying an 1864 ban on abortion was valid. SOUNDBITE
Poles take to the streets of Warsaw on International Women's Day to demand free access to contraceptives. Although pro-Western parties managed to oust the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) government in October 2023 elections, women are voicing anger and frustration over delays in changing the laws on women's reproductive rights. The PiS's eight-year rule saw access to abortion, in-vitro fertilisation and emergency contraception tightened. IMAGES
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