The region, where Roman Catholic and evangelical churches hold sway, has long been unfriendly territory for abortion rights advocates. Argentina in 2020, though, offered a different landscape.
Tag: Women and Girls
Argentina Senate to Vote on Bill Legalizing Abortion
A bill before the Senate would make abortion legal in the predominantly Catholic nation, the homeland of Pope Francis. Its approval likely would have significant effect across Latin America.
Welcoming a New Year at an Ancient Festival in Pakistan
Chawmos, a festival of Pakistan’s tiny Kalash community, is a portrait in contrasts: solemn ritual and joyous dancing, gender segregation and public flirtation, togetherness and isolation.
City of Paris Fined Nearly $110,000 for Appointing Too Many Women
The French government ordered the city to pay up under a 2012 law intended to address gender imbalance at senior levels of the country’s Civil Service. The mayor deemed the decision “absurd.”
Faced With Protests, Pakistan Says Rapists Could Be Chemically Castrated
After an official cast blame on a rape survivor, setting off protests, the government has promised swifter justice and chemical castrations.
In Argentina, Vote to Legalize Abortion Passes Lower House of Congress
Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández has made the rights of women and of gay and transgender people central to his government, even through a recession and a pandemic.
The Women Faced Off to Play Soccer. One Team Lost Because of Hair Dye.
A Chinese university team argued that an opposing player’s hair was not “black enough,” according to the rules, and her team forfeited the match.
She Accused the Mayor of Sexual Assault. Then the Town Turned on Her.
Assemblymen in Kusatsu, Japan, organized an election to recall their sole female colleague, saying she had damaged the town’s reputation with her allegations.
In Poland, Protests Over Abortion Ban Could Revolutionize Politics
The government’s conservative social policies, closely tied to the Catholic Church, have met with a backlash from women hoping to change a political culture that developed after Communism fell.
Suhaila Siddiq, Afghanistan’s First Female General, Is Dead
Also a renowned surgeon, she rose through the ranks of the Afghan Army and practiced medicine during the Soviet invasion and the Afghan civil war and under the Taliban’s rule.