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Women

Unsafe sunsets: urban mobility and the condemnation of women to stay at home

Mobility reflects inequities rooted in social roles historically assigned to men and women, as cities are mostly designed and built by and for men. Consequently, this situation poses substantial obstacles for women in their routine activities.

Maximum available resources: a key standard for the right to care

When the gender approach is not considered in macroeconomic policies, it is women who end up cushioning the impact of crises through unpaid domestic and care work.

Women, political rights, and inequalities: Where are we in Latin America?

In Latin America there is still a long road ahead to achieve the desired parity, but women are still fighting; we continue leading, marching, demonstrating, participating, talking, agreeing and insisting that political spaces are spaces for women.

Inequalities, violence, and gender-based neglect

Although many countries have ratified the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the world still faces significant challenges in achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) on gender equality.

Cuba: the women prisoners of the dictatorship

Cuban women demand human, civil, and political rights, all kinds of freedom, as well as the end of the absolute governance of the Communist Party of Cuba.

The Exclusion of Afro-descendant Women in Latin America

Today is the International Day of of Afro-Latin American, Afro-Caribbean and Diaspora Women. Although the presence of politicians such as Epsy Campbell and Francia Márquez show their growing prominence, the conditions of exclusion, inequality and citizen deficit of these women are multiple.