The extreme backlash against feminism and subsequent attack on women’s rights by the government in Argentina has impacted women in different ways. One victim of this violent wave is Carolina Sigal Fogliani, whose story, a representation of the physical and psychological abuse of pregnant women and the violation of their maternity rights in Argentina, LAB […]
‘People are feeling impotent; marching raises our hopes’, says Claudia Hasanbegovic, the femicide lawyer WRV’s Marilyn Thomson spoke to for this alarming piece on the backlash against feminism in Argentina under Milei and civil demonstrations resisting against it. Thousands upon thousands of people have been taking to the streets in Argentina since President Milei came […]
Moira Millán’s community, Lof Pillañ Mahuiza, has been targeted and raided by government authorities. This piece was republished from the Esperanza Project, who translated the original Spanish with permission from the author. In a press conference, the Governor of Chubut Ignacio Torres claimed –without evidence, and based on disinformation and distorted data– that Mapuche people […]
On 27 January 2025, the collective Mujeres Colibrí, Defensoras de la Vida (Hummingbird Women, Defenders of Life) presented their research on the multiple forms of violence experienced by Indigenous and Afro-descendant women in the state of Guerrero, Mexico, to state representatives and local media.
A new-born baby discovered abandoned in a plastic bag sparked a public furore, pitting the church and pro-life defenders against advocates of women's right to choose and better sex education and support for young people.
LAB council member Elva Narcía Cancino reports from Chiapas, Mexico, where Zapatista indigenous women meet for a training day for Resistance and Rebellion -- against the background of rising levels of violence fueled by drug trafficking gangs and a government which has been ineffectual at best.
The collectively-written book Women Resisting Violence, published in English by LAB in 2022, has now been released online in Spanish by Cita Press. This text has been republished from Cita Press’ bulletin. “nos sembraron miedo, nos crecieron alas…”/ “they sowed fear in us, we grew wings…” On November 25 (International Day for the Elimination of […]
Campesina women in the Tariquía National Reserve stand up against impending gas extraction which will have detrimental impacts on the environment and local communities’ ways of life.
The content of the book is painful but also full of hope. It aims to better understand the ‘painful truths’ of gendered violence in cities, bringing to light the stories of many women on the receiving end as victims and survivors and the ways in which women challenge violence through resistance and creative practices as agents.
'Leonor: The Story of a Lost Childhood' is not a simple story of bad left-wing guerrillas, good right-wing army—it is one in which the dehumanisation of women forms a prevailing undercurrent of the pursuit or exercise of power by men of all stripes in even the most quotidian circumstances.
