Activism

Peru’s Femicide Fight Turns Into a Battle Over Legal Memory 0
- Activism, WE DO
- May 8, 2026
In Lima, a proposal to erase femicide from Peru’s penal code has turned a legal debate into a national warning, as grieving families, feminist groups, and human rights advocates say the change would reward killers and silence victims once again.
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Latin America’s Far Right Turns Feminism Into Its Favorite Enemy 0
- WE DO, Activism
- May 2, 2026
Across Latin America, far-right movements are using anti-feminist panic to reorganize politics, weaken equality institutions, attack sex education, and redirect social anger away from austerity, precarious work, violence, and the deep failures of neoliberal democracy.
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Cuban Women Turn Sanctions Into Latin America’s Harshest Public Mirror 0
- WE DO, Activism
- April 8, 2026
Hundreds of women in Havana rallied against the U.S. energy embargo, but the scene says more than that. It shows how Cuban women, and by extension many Latin American women, are still asked to absorb scarcity, defend dignity, and perform national endurance in public.
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Peruvian Amazon Artist KAY Exposes Sexual Violence Against Women Through Performance 0
- WE DO, Activism, Equality, WE ARE
- February 18, 2026
In Iquitos, artist Kay Zevallos steps into the Itaya River while menstruating, confronting a childhood warning about the pink river dolphin. Her performances argue the bufeo myth has been twisted to mask sexual violence, from rubber boom days to now.
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Independent feminism in Cuba regrets that its work is “criminalized”0
- WE DO, Activism
- December 28, 2023
After each of the nearly 200 feminicides verified in Cuba since 2019—85 this year—lies the challenging work of activists like Yanelys Núñez, who lament that this work is “criminalized,” but see it as a “significant step” to have placed the issue on the public agenda and prompted the government, albeit belatedly, to take action.
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Chilean Women March Against Gender Violence 0
- WE DO, Activism
- November 25, 2023
In the heart of Santiago, Chile, hundreds of women took to the streets with a resounding chant: “Not one step back.” Their demand? More action against gender-based violence and a more significant commitment from society to eradicate this scourge.
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