Women's Rights in Latin America

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The region is home to some of the highest rates of femicides in the world. It also has been remarkably liberal in some places for years over things like divorce or same sex marriage. The fact that women have really had to fight for these changes in the law recently suggests just how far latin america has been behind, Emma says.

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