At 13, she is one of nine Amazonian girls who won a lawsuit against the state to stop gas flaring in the world’s largest rainforest. But her battle continues because the ruling has not been enforced
A group of artisans and two designers from Bogotá are determined to recover the plant’s ancestral use as a pigment and promote its legal market through the Tinta Dulce project
The physician says misinformation, pharmaceutical shortages and peer intimidation are on the rise during Javier Milei’s presidency
The president of the foundation ChileMujeres warns that today only 15% of women have the right to childcare at the workplace, which is required by local law for companies with at least 20 female employees
The co-founder of the NGO Valientes warns that, since the pandemic, this crime has been more prevalent in cities such as Cartagena, Medellín and Bogotá, and digital threats have increased
This 28-year-old Mexican has been recognized for incorporating the language spoken by 1.6 million people into the search engine’s translator
The Panamanian executive advocates for regulations that promote change in favor of women, but also for companies to assume their responsibility ‘out of conviction and not just out of regulatory compliance’
The founder of one of the most prominent NGOs in the protection and defense of the transgender community trusts in the power of the community in the face of the challenges posed by the Trump administration
The struggle of Latin American women is more urgent than ever in the face of setbacks across the continent. These eight women are at the forefront of the resistance: defending their threatened rights and fighting for those they have yet to secure
As a counterpoint to a perhaps dystopian future, this educator recommends concentrating on the little things that truly make up people’s lives and (at least for now) cannot be monetized or converted into data
If we want to preserve democracy as a conversation based on shared facts, we must build a digital environment in which that conversation is possible. And the US is not the model. On the contrary, it is time to tell the emperor that he is naked
Marianny Sánchez Núñez, Paula Barrios, Catalina Martínez Coral and Ana Vera are some of the visible faces of the international movement against child pregnancy. They have been involved in litigation before the UN Human Rights Committee, which has condemned Ecuador and Nicaragua for failing to protect girls
She conducts the Bogotá Women’s Philharmonic Orchestra and the Cartagena Symphony Orchestra. The latter is a social project made up of children and youths who perform in concert at the Cartagena Music Festival
The Chilean-French expert leads Zero Mothers Die, a cellphone application that provides information to combat maternal and neonatal mortality in countries facing extreme poverty
Colombia's first Afro minister created the Manos Visibles Corporation, which has trained more than 27,000 leaders. She is working to turn Quibdó and Medellín into 'Black Smart Cities'
The Colombian journalist criticizes President Gustavo Petro’s plan for total peace, the reintegration of rapists and violence against female reporters, and has launched a documentary on sexual exploitation in Cartagena
An expert in artificial intelligence and feminism, the Mexican-Ecuadorian professor speaks with EL PAÍS about how big tech is building a model of the world that will deepen inequality
With the exception of YouTube, no platform operating in the Latin American country offers open and free access to its data. The lack of transparency affects the monitoring of online violence against women
The director of the Inter-American Dialogue’s Rule of Law Program talks about the scenarios for the country and ideas to generate legal incentives for a democratic transition in her native country
Beatriz Busaniche, president of the Vía Libre Foundation and academic, analyzes the gender and ethnic biases of AI
Nina Santos is an expert and researcher on disinformation, hate speech and artificial intelligence. Based in Brazil, she approaches the debate from the perspective of the countries of the region
She leads the Fundapaz Foundation’s ‘El Chimborazo’ campaign, whose goal is to reunite the 112 families who lost their lands to paramilitary groups. She turned her pain into art and is a voice for the culture of peace
On Tuesday, guest speakers from Latin America will participate in an event focusing on women’s increased political representation and the problems they face as they reach positions of power. The Mexico-based event is organized by EL PAÍS América and Luminate
Born in Venezuela, she is the first Latin American woman to head the Washington-based human rights advocacy group WOLA. In this interview, she talks about democratic backsliding in the region
Keila Simpson presides over ANTRA, the association that prepares the annual report on the murder of trans people in Brazil… the world’s deadliest country for this community
The organization Aúna was born in 2020, when professionals from across various fields who did not feel represented by the existing women in politics decided to change that
The Latin America director of the International Fund for Public Interest Media (IFPIM) reflects on independent journalism, the impact of artificial intelligence and the polarization in Argentine society