Gender equality and women's rights in Latin America (6 Mar 2014)

Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2014 Professor Maxine Molyneux, UCL Institute of the Americas Among the eight Millennium Development Goals were women's empowerment and gender equity. This lecture, marking International Women's Day, focuses on the Latin American region, assessing the progress that has been made, and the obstacles that women still face in achieving greater equality and justice, sexual and reproductive rights and measures to tackle violence against women. You can also watch this lecture on the UCLLHL YouTube channel at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2k8LFxb8nQ