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The health care workers’ situation in Venezuela is precarious and has a direct impact on the care these professionals provide to the population. According to the Venezuelan Medical Federation (FMV), at least 42,000 health workers have left the country in recent years due to the economic crisis, miserable salaries, and the lack of response to their socioeconomic demands. ....
Venezuela: Detained for defending women and girls rights Vannesa Rosales is a teacher and women and girls’ rights defender in the state of Mérida (West). On 12 October 2020, officers from the Scientific, Penal and Criminal Investigations Unit (CICPC) broke into her home without a search warrant and detained her, violating due process guarantees. She is now accused of assisting a 13-year-old girl, whose life was in danger, for the interruption of her pregnancy resulting from rape. Vannesa has been under house arrest since 11 January 2021 and her pre-trial hearing is scheduled for 21 July 2021. The Attorney General should drop the charges against Vannesa and release her. TAKE ACTION ....
The cost of contraception is pushing women in Venezuela into unplanned pregnancies and unsafe abortions sbs.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sbs.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Venezuelan Women Lose Access to Contraception, and Control of Their Lives Image Photographs by Meridith Kohut Feb. 20, 2021 Affordable birth control has disappeared, pushing many women into unplanned pregnancies at a time when they can barely feed the children they already have. SAN DIEGO DE LOS ALTOS, Venezuela The moment Johanna Guzmán, 25, discovered she was going to have her sixth child she began to sob, crushed by the idea of bringing another life into a nation in such decay. For years, as Venezuela spiraled deeper into an economic crisis, she and her husband had scoured clinics and pharmacies for any kind of birth control, usually in vain. They had a third child. A fourth. A fifth. ....