Cali women’s prison on the air
The women’s prison in Cali is putting the voices of inmates on the airwaves, creating a new internal radio station for the 300 female prisoners. “FUTURO RM Estereo – the voice of…
The women’s prison in Cali is putting the voices of inmates on the airwaves, creating a new internal radio station for the 300 female prisoners. “FUTURO RM Estereo – the voice of…
A female candidate for Colombia’s House of Representatives promised on Monday to pose nude in a magazine if she gets voted into Congress in the upcoming elections. According to Maria…
Every four days a woman dies in Colombia at the hands of her husband, a study published by the national forensic institute showed this week. Of 1,139 female deaths reported…
The FARC run a camp in the north of Colombia where female recruits are forced to undergo abortion, a former guerrilla said Saturday. The “abortion camp” is located on a…
Members of Colombia’s governing coalition expressed support for Liberal Party presidential candidate Rafael Pardo’s plan to make the morning-after pill available for girls under fifteen. Pardo on Monday proposed to…
Colombia is one of Latin America’s most progressive countries when it comes to abortion, despite ongoing resistance from the church and difficulties with doctors and hospitals refusing to perform abortions…
For every two men with HIV one woman is infected in Colombia, and this figure is steadily worsening, announced the UN and Colombia’s Ministry for Social Protection on Thursday. Two…
Colombia’s Constitutional Court has ordered a national campaign to promote the sexual and reproductive rights of women, including the right to abortion in certain cases. The Ministries of Social Protection,…
International aid organisation Oxfam Wednesday called for zero tolerance of sex crimes against women in Colombia, and demands that the European Union pressure the Colombian government to become active in…