Tag: Feminist

• Tuesday, December 3rd 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Mexican women shocked and furious over a femicide and a lenient magistrate

  

  A former head of Amazon Mexico is wanted for questioning after his wife was apparently killed by a hitman in Mexico City. Abril Pérez Sagaón was shot dead in a car on Monday in front of two of her teenage children.

• Thursday, December 20th 2018 - 12:21 UTC

  Argentina, Nicaragua pull out ambassadors as diplomatic tension grows

  

  In a local replica of the #MeToo movement, actress/model Thelma Fardin last week announced with the backing of radical feminist groups that she had been abused by actor Juan Darthes while on tour in Nicaragua. At the time of the alleged abuse in 2009, Fardin was 16 and therefore a minor. Darthes has already been “buried alive” and any show or commercial ad with his face has been removed from national TV.

• Monday, September 24th 2018 - 09:26 UTC

  Bolsonaro's homophobic rhetoric backfiring among women voters

  

  Brazil’s far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro built much of his reputation on shocking, sexist rhetoric. But that’s backfiring with the majority of the electorate: women. The former Army captain’s rejection rate has risen to 50% among female voters, even as he lies on a hospital bed after being stabbed by a fanatic.

• Thursday, June 14th 2018 - 21:23 UTC

  Legal abortion bill in Argentina faces an even steeper up hill in the Senate

  

  The lower house of Argentina’s Congress on Thursday narrowly passed a Bill to legalise abortion through 14 weeks of pregnancy after a tight vote on a proposal that has divided the South American nation.

• Wednesday, January 10th 2018 - 09:48 UTC

  Women to the rescue of men: don't fall into a “Puritanical” witch hunt

  

  Legendary French actress Catherine Deneuve is among 100 women who signed an editorial Tuesday in French daily Le Monde, criticizing the current #MeToo movement for restricting sexual freedom.