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Forbidden Words in Paraguay

Por Mauri­cio Maluff* For some time now, there has been a move­ment in our coun­try aim­ing to ban the use of the word “gen­der” due to its al­leged as­so­ci­a­tion with a so-called gen­der ide­ol­ogy. Ini­tially, the goal was to pro­hibit this sup­posed gen­der ide­ol­ogy, but ... More »

Challenges to achieve a National Care Policy in Paraguay

Por Marcela Achinelli.* Given that the coun­try is in the midst of a change of gov­ern­ment, it is es­sen­tial to take into ac­count some of the chal­lenges that re­main in or­der to achieve a Na­tional Care Pol­icy in Paraguay. In fact, al­ready dur­ing the elec­toral camp... More »

Women’s employment: precariousness of indeterminate duration

By Dahi­ana Ay­ala.* The cur­rent cri­sis in the la­bor mar­ket seems to be tak­ing on se­ri­ous di­men­sions, es­pe­cially for women. The la­bor pre­car­i­ous­ness that af­fects women on the verge of poverty, even ex­treme poverty, is ex­pressed in part-time, frag­mented and poorl... More »

The plight of female heads of household in the prison system

By Ivonne Aris­ti­z­a­bal.* Ac­cord­ing to data from the Na­tional Sta­tis­tics In­sti­tute (INE), 37.2% of house­holds are headed by a woman. Of these, 60% work in the com­mu­nal, so­cial, and per­sonal ser­vices sec­tor, as well as in com­merce, restau­rants, and self-em­ploy­men... More »


Parity in the PLRA (II). The implications of the statutory changes

By Ma. del Pi­lar Abente La­haye This ar­ti­cle is a con­tin­u­a­tion of the first in the se­ries “Par­ity in the PLRA“, which ex­plained how the process to ap­prove gen­der par­ity in the party by­laws was car­ried out. In this ar­ti­cle we will dis­cuss what this ini­tia­tive co... More »

Violated by the Paraguayan state in the midst of the health crisis

By María Asun­ción Col­lante Jara On March 20, 2020, our coun­try en­tered a to­tal quar­an­tine af­ter the first cases of COVID-19 were re­ported, and since then, the eco­nomic and hu­man losses have been con­sid­er­able. At the same time, the struc­tural con­di­tions of gend... More »