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Managua / San Salvador / San Jose, Nov 25 (EFE).- Protesters around Latin America on Wednesday took to the streets to demand an end to gender violence and femicide on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.At least 4,640 women were victims of femicide in Latin America in 2019, an increase of 31.5 percent over the previous year, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean reported Wednesday.(Camera: RENEE LUCIA RAMOS / VLADIMIR CHICAS / DOUGLAS MARIN).SHOT LIST: PEOPLE MARCH TO DEMAND AN END TO GENDER VIOLENCE AND FEMICIDE IN THE CAPITAL CITIES OF NICARAGUA, EL SALVADOR AND COSTA RICA.
Lima (Peru), Jun 30 (EFE), (Camera: Mikhail Huacán).- The Continental Network of Indigenous Women (ECMIA) denounces the situation of indigenous women in the Americas since they suffer triple discrimination: women, indigenous and poor. SOUNDBITES OFTARCILA RIVERA, COORDINATOR AT THE CONTINENTAL NETWORK OF INDIGENOUS WOMEN (ECMIA):"As indigenous women, we use the term 'acts of violence' in plural since as you said expulsion from their territories is a form of violence. We also suffer domestic violence, sexual violence, racism - which, for us, is a brutal act of violence that hurts self-esteem- and sadly we have registered for more than 350 rapes (girls and boys) during lockdown."
Hundreds of people march down Reforma Avenue in Mexico City, demanding justice and equality for Indigenous peoples, on the anniversary of Columbus' discovery of the Americas. IMAGES
Lima, Oct 15 (EFE).- The Peruvian capital bore witness Friday to a march by hundreds of indigenous women from a dozen Latin American countries to demand recognition of their contributions to society on the occasion of the International Day of Rural Women."We are revolutionary women, we are women of the countryside, of struggle, and we need the great capitalists to understand that we, too, have rights that they have to respect," Angelica Ponce, director of the Confederation of Women of Intercultural Communities of Bolivia, told Efe.She made the trip to Lima for the Second Summit of Indigenous Women of Abya Yala (Latin America), which comes nearly five months after the first summit, held in Bolivia. (Camera: MIKHAIL HUACÁN).SHOT LIST: INDIEGENOUS WOMEN MARCH TO DEFEND THEIR RIGHTS IN LIMA, PERU.
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.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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