Editor’s note: In early December, The Courier will go to Nicaragua with volunteers who support the Shoebox Project, a charitable effort helping children, young mothers and families. Leading up to that ...

Total ban on abortion endangers women's lives in Nicaragua. March 1, 2010— -- Fearing prosecution under strict anti-abortion laws, doctors in Nicaragua have refused to provide chemotherapy to a ...

GRANADA, Nicaragua – Women in bright colored dresses indicative of their various ethnic backgrounds marched despite the rain in the colonial city of Granada on Tuesday to call for an end to global ...

Anti-abortion extremist Ken Cuccinelli just lost in Virginia but 40 members of the U.S. House are still carrying his “personhood” banner. To see where this could lead, consider the brutal treatment of ...

MANAGUA, Oct 2 (Reuters) - An outright ban on abortion in Nicaragua has caused the deaths of at least 80 women since it was imposed 11 months ago, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday. The U.S.-based ...

Nicaragua’s new blanket ban on abortion – even in cases of rape, incest or life-threatening pregnancy – violates international human rights standards and poses a grave risk to women, Human Rights ...

Nicaragua’s blanket ban on abortion, which criminalizes life-saving medical treatment, has had a devastating impact on women’s health and lives, Human Rights Watch said today in the first-ever report ...

The Nicaraguan government’s offensive against reproductive rights has turned its sights on Dorothy Granada, a native Californian who says poor women need the right to limit their. MANAGUA, Nicaragua ...

Ana María Hernandez wakes up every day at 3 a.m. to make tortillas that she sells during the day at her store on the outskirts of Managua, Nicaragua’s capital city. In the past two years, Hernandez ...

Eveling Perez is a female bull rider defying Nicaragua's machismo-fueled rodeo culture - Copyright AFP Can EROK Eveling Perez is a female bull rider defying Nicaragua ...

Editor's note: In early December, The Courier will go to Nicaragua with volunteers who support the Shoebox Project, a charitable effort helping children, young mothers and families. Leading up to that ...