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Article: LACWHN activism and advocacy campaigns for Women's Health and Rights.(Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network)
- Article from:
- Women's Health Journal
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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The following article is based on a report originally published in the Women's Health Journal 1/2001.
Throughout history, social movements for change have arisen to pave the way for new ideas or to protest situations of oppression and violence. Women have been no exception. In the first half of the 20th century, suffragists fought hard for the right to vote and for progress in legal rights for women. Slowly, they began to incorporate other demands, especially those concerning labor conditions and related aspects of women's work.
But it was during the 1970s that the struggle for women's rights in the broadest sense definitively came of age ...