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Venezuelan church prioritizes women’s needs on path toward livelihood recovery

See Post — Tue, 31 May 2022 11:00:03 +0000

Hidden from the visible impact of complex humanitarian crises are the tough choices women in low-income communities often have to make between catering to their own critical needs and providing food and other basics for their families. In Venezuela’s northern region, the Lutheran church is supporting women to access safe and affordable menstrual hygiene, while empowering them to establish alternative income sources and discuss early prevention of gender-based violence (GBV). Full Text -> The Lutheran World Federation

Traducción de cortesía -> Ocultas del impacto visible de las crisis humanitarias complejas están las difíciles decisiones que las mujeres de las comunidades de bajos ingresos a menudo tienen que tomar entre satisfacer sus propias necesidades críticas y proporcionar alimentos y otros artículos básicos para sus familias. En la región norte de Venezuela, la iglesia luterana está apoyando a las mujeres para que accedan a una higiene menstrual segura y asequible, al tiempo que las empodera para establecer fuentes alternativas de ingresos y discutir la prevención temprana de la violencia de género.

Venezuelan Women Confront State Violence

See Post — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 11:11:00 +0000

Cristina heard the shots that killed her son. She witnessed how the authorities assembled a “movie,” manipulating the crime scene. Police moved the body from the site of his murder and shot into the air in the opposite direction. They put a weapon in his hands, to allege that he had resisted the authorities. By Francisco Sánchez. Full Text -> NACLA

Venezuelan women: The unseen victims of the humanitarian crisis

See Post — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 14:14:07 +0000

Although gender inequality is not a novel issue in Latin America and especially not in Venezuela, the current humanitarian crisis has made women more vulnerable financially, politically, and socially, and made sexual violence and discrimination commonplace. By Angela Chavez. Full text -> Atlantic Council

Venezuela’s Maduro urges women to have six children

See Post — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 15:10:00 +0000

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has urged women to have six children “for the good of the country”. Full text -> BBC

A Tender Look at the Crisis Engulfing Venezuela

See Post — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 05:05:55 +0000

“The society is held together by these beautiful matriarch archetypes”, she says. “And beauty is a big part of the culture here; the possibility to be sexy and powerful is a big thing for Venezuelan women”, she explains. Even during protest there’s these moments of striking femininity, just like this female officer whose bright red lipstick glows through the scratched glass of her riot shield. By Laurence Cornet. Full text -> Photographic Museum of Humanity