LA GRECIA, Matagalpa—In Nicaragua, a country where most people identify as Catholic or Evangelical Christian, sex education is a delicate topic. Yet it has a critical impact on young people’s health and sexual and reproductive rights.   Nicaragua has the...

MATAGALPA- Indie rockers, singer/songwriters, folk pioneers, and revolutionary poets. These are all descriptions that apply to musicians Elsa Basil, Gaby Baca, Clara Grün, and Katia Cardenal, who rocked out Saturday night in honor of International Women’s Day. At a free...

MANAGUA—Women from all corners of Nicaragua descended on Managua Thursday to celebrate International Women’s Day. Accompanied by the drums of the feminist group Batacuda Feminista and decked out in bright purple and white, the women chanted and marched through the...

Introduction The Integral Law Against Violence Against Women, passed last month, has as its principal antecedent the legislative initiative promoted by the Network of Women Against Violence, which in 1995-1996 proposed a bill that eventually became Law 230, sanctioning domestic...

Thousands are expected to march on the capital for the Marcha Nacional on International Women’s Day.  Events continue throughout the week, across Nicaragua—don’t miss the opportunity to show your support for women’s rights here and around the globe.  Plus, the...

Opinion. Prior to the night of July 20, 2009, Fátima Hernández was just a regular young Managua woman, busy with work and studies. She was not actively involved in the women’s rights movement or politics. Yet, within a few months,...

A 12-year-old girl who was raped and impregnated by her stepfather gave birth to a five-pound baby boy Oct. 31, according to daily El Nuevo Diario. The baby was delivered by cesarean section due to health complications to the young...

A 12-year-old rape victim impregnated by her stepfather is under the Sandinista government’s protection at Bertha Calderón Hospital in Managua, where state medics are determined to deliver the baby and prevent her from having an abortion, according to Health Minister...

I still remember the afternoon of Oct. 26, 2006, as if it were yesterday. I watched the National Assembly’s TV channel with astonishment as our “illustrious” lawmakers, those on the alleged left as well as the right, voted to penalize...

MANAGUA — On a recent Wednesday morning in the capital, with the kind of asphyxiating city heat that Managua produces so effortlessly, a colorful swarm of thousands of handmade paper butterflies and people dressed like them flittered and fluttered through...