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By Juliana Britto Schwartz • @JulianaBrittoS • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

According to a new report from Grassroots Leadership, there are over 10,500 prisoners who have been shipped across state lines to private, for-profit prisons outside of their home states. 

A United Nations Committee officially rules abortion a human right, ruling that a Peruvian woman denied an abortion for an anencephalic pregnancy should be given financial compensation, years later.

Two former soldiers in Guatemala went on trial Monday for the sexual enslavement of indigenous people during the country’s civil war.

A 16 year-old girl died in a Kentucky Detention Center after staff waited 11 minutes to perform CPR upon discovering her body in her cell.

Header image credit: Jorge López/Reuters

 

 

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Juliana is a digital storyteller for social change. As a writer at Feministing since 2013, her work has focused on women's movements throughout the Americas for environmental justice, immigrant rights, and reproductive justice. In addition to her writing, Juliana is a Senior Campaigner at Change.org, where she works to close the gap between the powerful and everyone else by supporting people from across the country to launch, escalate and win their campaigns for justice.

Juliana is a Latina feminist writer and campaigner based in the Bay Area.

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