Angela Heimburger
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Angela Heimburger is the Americas researcher for the Women’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch. Prior to her arrival, she spent ten years researching and coordinating sexual and reproductive health projects in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Some Thoughts for Labor Day

Posted September 6, 2009 | 20:00:02 (EST)

Labor Day? Let's be real. The last thing on our minds this weekend is labor rights. Whether we're fortunate enough to have a job or worrying about how to get one in today's economy, we'll focus more on this summer's last hurrah than on the Tuesday- morning-after travails.

But...

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Brazil's Mornings After

Posted February 25, 2009 | 16:39:00 (EST)

Brazil is famous for its Carnival, the celebration before the morning-after solemnity of Lent that conjures up images of parades and samba pageants, with wildly celebrating participants from all over the world. A thriving tourism industry feeds on those images of free sexual expression during Carnival. But the mornings after...

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