–Researched and written by Rebecca Smith— On December 11, 2018, Argentinian actor Thelma Fardin accused Juan Darthés of sexual assault and revealed she filed criminal charges against the Brazilian-born actor in Nicaragua. Fardin maintained that Darthés, a co-star on the television show Patito Feo, assaulted her in a Nicaraguan hotel during an international tour in

Following a meeting between some LGBT activists and the future Minister of Human Rights, Damares Alves, the Brazilian League of Lesbians and Bisexual Women (LBL) released a letter criticizing the encounter and stating they will not negotiate with the government of President Jair Bolsonaro.

Many studies say an adult should sleep an average of eight hours a day. However, in Chile, adults between 30-49 years old sleep about 7.1 hours.

The issue of safe, legal abortion has come to the forefront of Uruguay’s political sphere.

Since protests began last April, sectors of Nicaragua’s civil society—specifically feminist groups—have clashed with the Ortega-Murillo Regime.

Since 1981, November 25 has marked a day of protest and commemoration of violence against women across Latin America. This year, women took to the streets and social media to speak against gender violence again.

In the traditional Costa Rican oxcart parade of San José, one sees beautiful painted oxcarts, huge traditional masks, folk dancers, and something unexpected: children leading the carts.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has declared that the face of extreme rural poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean is female, and that people in rural areas have no access to adequate nutrition at 3.5 times the rate of people in urban areas.

To date, 100,000 people have benefitted from the Banco de Alimentos’ food distribution programs.

Thousands of Chileans participated in the seventh “a step for family” march in San Cristóbal-Baní, rejecting the decriminalization of abortion under the motto: “we save both lives.”