The Fight for Abortion in Latin America

Mar 3, 2019
8:20 PM
Originally published at Audioboom

In this episode of Latino Rebels Radio, we speak with Paula Ávila-Guillén about the fight to legalize abortion in several Latin American countries and the work that The Women’s Equality Center is doing, gearing up for legislative pushes around abortions rights.

Ávila-Guillén is a human rights legal expert and Director of Latin America Initiatives for the Women’s Equality Center, an advocacy organization that works with activists and groups across the continent.

Featured image: Demonstrators take part in a march to demand the decriminalization of abortion, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women in Santo Domingo on November 25, 2018. (Photo by ERIKA SANTELICES/AFP/Getty Images)