Thousands of people took to the streets across Argentina on August 18 to protest rising living costs and demand the government take action to improve material conditions, reports Ana Zorita.
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Diego Maradona聽will always be remembered聽as the football god who played on the side of the poor, writes Federico Fuentes.
Three years after the alleged forced disappearance of Argentinian activist Santiago Maldonado, the Benetton family continues to violate indigenous rights in Patagonia, writes Marcella Via.
Pro-choice campaigners are hopeful that Argentinian president-elect Alberto Fern谩ndez will act on his promise to put a pro-choice bill to Congress.
The first ever feminist tango festival took place in聽鈥檚 Villa Crespo district of Buenos Aires on March 9 and 10 as part of the聽International Working Women鈥檚 Day celebrations to聽challenge the male-dominated聽art form.
The Argentine Senate鈥檚 rejection of a bill to legalise abortion did not stop a Latin American-wide movement, writes Fabiana Frayssinet. The movement is on the streets and expanding in an increasingly coordinated manner among women鈥檚 organisations in the region with the most restrictive laws and policies against pregnant women鈥檚 right to choose.
Argentine activists and feminists organised in the National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe and Free Abortion have vowed to continue their fight after the Senate聽聽the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy Bill on August 8, TeleSUR English said.
This bill, passed by Congress in June, would have ended the criminalisation of women seeking to terminate a pregnancy within the first 14 weeks.
The abortion debate is continuing聽in Argentina with聽senate commissions rejecting聽modifications to the original bill that聽would have made abortions more difficult to obtain.
Conservative modifications were made to the and voted on August 1 in the three commissions (health, justice and constitutional affairs) currently debating its contents聽before the bill heads to the full Senate on August 8.
While there have been some聽major legislative advances for LGBTI聽rights in Latin America, there is still much to be done, writes Erin Fiorini.
鈥淣othing will stop us now!鈥 These were the words of the excited and emotional activists when Argentina鈥檚 parliament voted narrowly (129 votes to 125) to decriminalise abortion.
Palestinians are celebrating the聽聽that Argentina 鈥 and its star Lionel Messi 鈥 will not be playing the 鈥渇riendly鈥 football match that had been set for Jerusalem in the coming days.
The cancellation is a huge blow to Israel and came after an intense campaign by Palestinians and their supporters, especially in Latin America and the Spanish state, urging Argentina not to help Israel whitewash its most recent massacres of unarmed civilians in Gaza.
鈥淪exual education to decide, birth control to not abort, legal abortion to not die!鈥 For over a decade, this has been the rallying cry behind Argentina鈥檚 , and for the first time it seems like it may become a reality.
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