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A rush to cash in on legal cannabis is putting pressure on traditional cultivators in Latin America and the Caribbean, while Canadian companies seek to control every aspect of the weed business and push for policing of less-than-legal operations.
Latin American countries have some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world. For instance, Nicaragua has a complete ban on abortion while Guatemala has an exception only when a girl or woman’s life is at risk. Access to abortion has also become a point of contention in the United States as a total of 27 bans have been enacted across 12 states so far in 2019.
We’re living in the most perilous time for abortion rights and reproductive freedom since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. Around 60 percent of Americans support a legal right to the procedure. Now state legislatures are escalating their assault on that right — and on the women who attempt to exercise it.
While many positive changes, vis-à-vis women, have taken taken place, including universal primary education, rising legal literacy, and reservations for women at the level of local government, women in India continue to face serious challenges, including those determined by their caste and religious backgrounds.
Around the world, millions of women are employed by the 2.4 trillion-dollar apparel industry. Many face daily sexual and verbal harassment on the job.
It may seem to some that decolonial feminism is just an academic buzzword, but the word itself captures the practice of political projects taking place in the global south. Different feminist organizations, collectives, and people in Latin America are now engaging with this political project, practice and thought.
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