LABOR RIGHTS AND JOB QUALITY IN LATIN AMERICA

Job Quality and Poverty in Latin America

Deforestation and Property Rights in Latin America

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Human rights and the right to abortion in Latin America.

The scope of this study is to question the fact that in some countries in Latin America (Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras and the Dominican Republic) abortion is still forbidden in all situations. Even after all the debate on this thorny issue, the theory of human rights is not often used in the defense of abortion. This is clearly related to the pervasive, albeit unspoken belief that, d...

Zika virus outbreak: reproductive health and rights in Latin America.

In mid-January, 2016, health ministers from diff erent Latin American countries made public recommendations to women and couples to postpone pregnancy for 6 months to 2 years in the face of the Zika virus outbreak. These recommendations seemed out of place in view of the fact that 56% of pregnancies in the region are unintended. Poor quality of sex education, poor access to contraception, high ...

[Healthcare rights and conditional cash transfers in Latin America].

Conditional cash transfer programs in Latin America impose specific requirements and responsibilities on beneficiary households, in order to upgrade education levels, improve drop-out rates and eliminate child labor, while enhancing health and nutrition indicators. Although counterpart healthcare conditions are common to all these programs, government strategies differ in terms of reaching thei...