Conceiving Equity
Territory and Body – Women Leading the Fight for Reproductive Rights in Latin America
January 24, 2024, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Uptown Campus
Diboll Gallery
3rd floor
Yasmín López, a fearless indigenous leader from Honduras and the general coordinator of the Council for the Comprehensive Development of Peasant Women, will deliver the Annual Roe v. Wade Lecture titled "Territory and Body - Women Leading the Fight for Reproductive Rights in Latin America."
Yasmín López is an indigenous Honduran leader and general coordinator of CODIMCA (Council for the Comprehensive Development of Peasant Women). Yasmín is part of a movement of women fighting for reproductive rights in Latin America, who face persecution, poverty, lack of resources, displacement, and a state that denies and criminalizes their reproductive rights.
The event will have a 6:00 p.m. reception and exhibit of poster presentations by Newcomb Institute’s Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Health interns and advocacy activities provided by Tulane’s and Newcomb Institute's many reproductive rights/health/justice student organizations, followed by the 7:00 p.m. lecture.
