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"Abortions are illegal in El Salvador, and birth control is hard to come by. The irony, which seems lost on El Salvador, is that the same government that denies women control over their reproductive health is now asking those same women to control their reproductive health until 2018."
— From When A Country Without Abortion Tells Women To Not Get Pregnant, a piece responding to the Zika virus in Latin America and the Caribbean.
(via genhealth)
Honduran Indigenous Leader Berta Cáceres Assassinated, Won Goldman Environmental Prize
“In a country with growing socioeconomic inequality and human rights violations, Berta Cáceres rallied the indigenous Lenca people of Honduras and waged a grassroots campaign that successfully pressured the world’s largest dam builder to pull out of the Agua Zarca Dam.” Cáceres was one of the leading indigenous rights activists in Honduras.
Click here to hear Cáceres in her own words and speak to her nephew, Silvio Carrillo, and her longtime friend Beverly Bell.
In the rural highlands of Guatemala, childhood malnutrition is a common health issue. Women in the community are working with Peace Corps Volunteer Nicole Mortenson to fight malnutrition through a gardening project. In this photo, a member of the gardening club is celebrating the new harvest! http://bit.ly/1RQxcp3
