It is necessary to protect minors and teachers and stop politicizing gender and sexuality education.

An investigation reviewed positive aspects and identified pending issues of abortion policy to guide the debate and decisions on what to sustain and what to improve in Argentina, where there is still inequality in access and deficits in the quality of abortion care.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first birth control pill to be sold without a prescription, a milestone that could expand women’s access to contraception in the country.

It is the one that goes: initiatives on masculinities in which men themselves get involved in order to dismantle the patriarchal rules that benefit them, but whose costs they also suffer. It is in this context that the very interesting research recently published by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the City of Buenos Aires appears.

OAS – In the framework of the Day of Children and Adolescents of the Americas, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) expresses its concern about the persistence of sexual violence against children and adolescents in the educational sphere in the region. In this regard, it calls on States to address the structural causes that generate this form of violence, through the adoption of prevention measures and their eradication in educational environments, with a gender perspective.

“If all women used contraceptives, it would reduce, for example, 1.2 million unwanted pregnancies per year and there would be 43% fewer induced abortions,” women’s health specialist Germán González told a press conference.

In February of this year, Colombia’s constitutional court eliminated the crime of abortion (up to 24 weeks of gestation) from the criminal code, in response to a lawsuit filed by Causa Justa, spearheading a broad social and legal campaign involving more than 120 movements and thousands of activists.

It was inconceivable, five years ago, that a conservative country like Colombia would eliminate the crime of abortion from the penal code (up to the 24th week of pregnancy). Or that Catholic and neoliberal Chile would vote for a constitution that enshrines sexual and reproductive rights, including voluntary abortion.

The head of the international body posted on his official Twitter account that, “Women should always have the right to choose when it comes to their bodies and health.”

Some 39,000 women die each year as a result of the 25 million unsafe abortions performed worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday as it unveiled a new guide to help with such crucial care for women and girls.

The right to abortion is simultaneously advancing and regressing in Latin America, where at the same time that significant steps are being taken in the conquest of sexual and reproductive rights, such as the recent ruling of the Constitutional Court of Colombia decriminalizing the voluntary interruption of pregnancy up to 24 weeks, an obstructionism persists that in practice prevents women from exercising these rights to the fullest.

Thousands of people marched in the streets of Latin America to commemorate International Women’s Day and to demand the guarantee of their rights.

As Australia’s Parliament grapples with allegations of rape, a young Sydney activist is lobbying the country’s authorities for the adoption of a series of reforms to Australia’s sex education program.

Every year 300,000 women worldwide die from preventable cervical cancer. January 2022 is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month.