The history of women and gender in Nicaragua
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- Women call for fight against stone-age
bill
- By Barbarena S. Edgard, El Nuevo Diario, 7
March 1997. A dispute has erupted between Liberal Alliance
deputies from Nicaragua's majority party and their
political opponents after the governing body of the
National Assembly set forth for discussion a ‘Family
Ministry’ which opponents say would represent a
major legal setback for women.
- Sofia Montenegro interview
- NACLA Report on the Americas, May/June 1997. Sofia
Montenegro was one of the founders of the Sandinista daily
paper Barricada after the triumph of the
revolution of 1979. Interviewed concerning the women's
movement, feminism, and progressivism.
- US Nurse Visits New York to Discuss Her
Persecution by the Nicaraguan Government
- Weekly News Update on the Americas, 13 November
2001. Dorothy Granada, an internationally acclaimed health
promoter and human rights activist who served for 12 years
as director of a women's health clinic in Mulukuku,
Nicaragua, is speaking at two events in the New York
metropolitan area.
- Ixchen Celebrates Thirteenth
Anniversary
- Nicaragua Network Hotline, 4 February
2002. Ixchen, Nicaragua's foremost women's support
organization, celebrated its thirteenth
anniversary. Founded in the last year of the revolution,
1989, Ixchen has attended to the needs of nearly 2.5
million women to date.