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21/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - In the village of Santa Rosa, in the heart of the Amazonian region of Madre de Dios, students from the Jose Carlos Mariategui middle school are taking part in a prevention campaign on the health risks linked to mercury. Since 2016, this campaign has been carried out in 4 other schools in the region by members of the Centro de Innovación Científica Amazónica (CINCIA) and rangers from the National Service of State Protected Natural Spaces (Sernanp).

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21/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - In the village of Santa Rosa, in the heart of the Amazonian region of Madre de Dios, students from the Jose Carlos Mariategui middle school are taking part in a prevention campaign on the health risks linked to mercury. Since 2016, this campaign has been carried out in 4 other schools in the region by members of the Centro de Innovación Científica Amazónica (CINCIA) and rangers from the National Service of State Protected Natural Spaces (Sernanp).

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Olivier Donnars / Le Pictorium -
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21/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - In the village of Santa Rosa, in the heart of the Amazonian region of Madre de Dios, students from the Jose Carlos Mariategui middle school are taking part in a prevention campaign on the health risks linked to mercury. Since 2016, this campaign has been carried out in 4 other schools in the region by members of the Centro de Innovación Científica Amazónica (CINCIA) and rangers from the National Service of State Protected Natural Spaces (Sernanp).

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Olivier Donnars / Le Pictorium -
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21/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - In the village of Santa Rosa, in the heart of the Amazonian region of Madre de Dios, students from the Jose Carlos Mariategui middle school are taking part in a prevention campaign on the health risks linked to mercury. Since 2016, this campaign has been carried out in 4 other schools in the region by members of the Centro de Innovación Científica Amazónica (CINCIA) and rangers from the National Service of State Protected Natural Spaces (Sernanp).

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21/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - Marta Torres (left) from the Centro de innovacion cientifica Amazonica (Cincia) and Jorge Lezama de la Sernanp (right) explain that mercury is a metal that is highly toxic both to the environment and to human health. Chronic intoxication with elemental mercury is manifested by various non-specific disorders: insomnia, nausea, depression, tremors, aggressiveness, memory problems. One speaks about silent intoxication.

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Olivier Donnars / Le Pictorium -
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21/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - Marta Torres (left) from the Centro de innovacion cientifica Amazonica (Cincia) and Jorge Lezama de la Sernanp (right) explain that mercury is a metal that is highly toxic both to the environment and to human health. Chronic intoxication with elemental mercury is manifested by various non-specific disorders: insomnia, nausea, depression, tremors, aggressiveness, memory problems. One speaks about silent intoxication.

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Olivier Donnars / Le Pictorium -
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21/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - Jorge Lezama de la Sernanp explains that mercury is a highly toxic metal both for the environment and for human health. A chronic intoxication with elemental mercury manifests itself by various non-specific disorders: insomnia, nausea, depression, tremors, aggressiveness, memory problems. One speaks about silent intoxication.

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21/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - The children leave for the Rio Tigre Mayo, a small river flowing near their school. Some of them are the children of illegal gold miners - and hide from them - but participate in the "Water Guardians" program, run by Cincia.

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21/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - The children leave for the Rio Tigre Mayo, a small river flowing near their school. Some of them are the children of illegal gold miners - and hide from them - but participate in the "Water Guardians" program, run by Cincia.

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Olivier Donnars / Le Pictorium -
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21/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - The children leave for the Rio Tigre Mayo, a small river flowing near their school. Some of them are the children of illegal gold miners - and hide from them - but participate in the "Water Guardians" program, run by Cincia.

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Olivier Donnars / Le Pictorium -
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21/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - The children leave for the Rio Tigre Mayo, a small river flowing near their school. Some of them are the children of illegal gold miners - and hide from them - but participate in the "Water Guardians" program, run by Cincia.

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21/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - Toxic mercury exists in two forms. The inorganic (liquid or vapour), is the one that miners inhale and release into rivers. Once in the aquatic sediments, it is transformed into methylmercury (or organic mercury) by bacteria. Then it is ingested by small fish living on the bottom, which in turn are consumed by larger fish. It is in these large fish, most often carnivorous, that mercury concentrations are 100 to 1000 times higher. Children learn to eat only herbivorous fish, such as pacu, which are less contaminated with mercury.

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Olivier Donnars / Le Pictorium -
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21/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - Using nets, they harvest small aquatic invertebrates, including dragonfly larvae. The diversity and quantity of these invertebrates are indicators of good water quality.

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Olivier Donnars / Le Pictorium -
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21/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - Using nets, they harvest small aquatic invertebrates, including dragonfly larvae. The diversity and quantity of these invertebrates are indicators of good water quality.

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Olivier Donnars / Le Pictorium -
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21/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - Using nets, they harvest small aquatic invertebrates, including dragonfly larvae. The diversity and quantity of these invertebrates are indicators of good water quality.

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Olivier Donnars / Le Pictorium -
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21/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - Using nets, they harvest small aquatic invertebrates, including dragonfly larvae. The diversity and quantity of these invertebrates are indicators of good water quality.

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Olivier Donnars / Le Pictorium -
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21/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - Using nets, they harvest small aquatic invertebrates, including dragonfly larvae. The diversity and quantity of these invertebrates are indicators of good water quality.

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Olivier Donnars / Le Pictorium -
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21/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - Using nets, they harvest small aquatic invertebrates, including dragonfly larvae. The diversity and quantity of these invertebrates are indicators of good water quality.

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Olivier Donnars / Le Pictorium -
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21/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - Using nets, they harvest small aquatic invertebrates, including dragonfly larvae. The diversity and quantity of these invertebrates are indicators of good water quality.

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Olivier Donnars / Le Pictorium -
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21/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios -

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21/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - All invertebrates harvested are meticulously catalogued. The diversity and quantity of invertebrates, including dragonfly larvae, are indicators of good water quality and mercury contamination. Scientists are also interested in them because they also enter the food chain of fish consumed by local populations.

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Olivier Donnars / Le Pictorium -
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21/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - All invertebrates harvested are meticulously catalogued. The diversity and quantity of invertebrates, including dragonfly larvae, are indicators of good water quality and mercury contamination. Scientists are also interested in them because they also enter the food chain of fish consumed by local populations.

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Olivier Donnars / Le Pictorium -
Water keepers -
21/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - All invertebrates harvested are meticulously catalogued. The diversity and quantity of invertebrates, including dragonfly larvae, are indicators of good water quality and mercury contamination. Scientists are also interested in them because they also enter the food chain of fish consumed by local populations.

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21/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - A schoolgirl shows a poster indicating all the types of invertebrates, including dragonfly larvae, that can be found in the stream and whose presence is a good indicator of good water quality.

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18/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - Marta Torrès, in charge of environmental awareness programs for the Centro de Innovación Científica Amazónica (CINCIA), shows a leaflet developed by CINCIA based on analyses carried out in the region's rivers, indicating which fish are edible and which are not.

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21/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - The students of the Jose Carlos Mariategui College in the village of Santa Rosa, in the heart of the Amazonian region of Madre de Dios. They are taking part in a prevention campaign on the health risks linked to mercury in the Mayo Tiger River that flows near their school.

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Olivier Donnars / Le Pictorium -
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21/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - Jorge Lezama is an environmental educator for the Tambopata National Reserve, one of the most important biodiversity reserves in Peru. He takes his role as an educator very seriously. He knows that some of the fathers of these children are illegal miners; some teenagers also work in the mines on weekends. But for him, there is no question of making distinctions or criticisms. "All activities are compatible with the environment if you understand how the environment works and how to preserve it.

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Olivier Donnars / Le Pictorium -
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21/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - Jorge Lezama is an environmental educator for the Tambopata National Reserve, one of the most important biodiversity reserves in Peru. He takes his role as an educator very seriously. He knows that some of the fathers of these children are illegal miners; some teenagers also work in the mines on weekends. But for him, there is no question of making distinctions or criticisms. "All activities are compatible with the environment if you understand how the environment works and how to preserve it.

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Olivier Donnars / Le Pictorium -
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18/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - Marta Torrès is in charge of environmental awareness programs for the Centro de Innovación Científica.
Amazónica (CINCIA). "We are not here to criticize mining activity but to talk about it like any other activity. Our role is to raise awareness of the problem of mercury, the usefulness of reforesting damaged plots and to show that there are alternative practices to the use of mercury in mining. ”

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21/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - Jorge Lezama isolates dragonfly larvae collected with the schoolboys in the Rio Tigre Mayo. The larvae are then preserved in alcohol before being analyzed in the laboratory to determine their mercury content. The results will then be given to the water keepers.

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Olivier Donnars / Le Pictorium -
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21/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - Jorge Lezama isolates dragonfly larvae collected with the schoolboys in the Rio Tigre Mayo. The larvae are then preserved in alcohol before being analyzed in the laboratory to determine their mercury content. The results will then be given to the water keepers.

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Olivier Donnars / Le Pictorium -
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21/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - Jorge Lezama isolates dragonfly larvae collected with the schoolboys in the Rio Tigre Mayo. The larvae are then preserved in alcohol before being analyzed in the laboratory to determine their mercury content. The results will then be given to the water keepers.

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26/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - In the laboratory of the Centro de innovacion cientifica Amazonica (Cincia) on the outskirts of Puerto Maldonado, the main city of the Madre de Dios region. The laboratory is isolated from the city, instead of the forest to avoid any source of mercury contamination.

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26/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - Claudia Vega, head of the mercury department of the Centro de innovacion cientifica Amazonica (Cincia) in Puerto Maldonado. In her laboratory, she analyzes the level of methylmercury absorbed by fish in the Madre de Dios region as well as the larvae of dragonflies of the "water guardians". Her analyses have made it possible to determine which types of fish could or could not be eaten. And which rivers are the least contaminated.

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Olivier Donnars / Le Pictorium -
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26/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - In the laboratory of the Centro de innovacion cientifica Amazonica (Cincia) next to Puerto Maldonado. Claudia Vega, its manager, shows a sample of frozen fish, used to measure the level of methylmercury absorbed by fish in the Madre de Dios region.

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26/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - In the laboratory of the Centro de innovacion cientifica Amazonica (Cincia) next to Puerto Maldonado. Claudia Vega, its manager, shows a sample of frozen fish, used to measure the level of methylmercury absorbed by fish in the Madre de Dios region.

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Olivier Donnars / Le Pictorium -
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26/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - In the laboratory of the Centro de innovacion cientifica Amazonica (Cincia) in Puerto Maldonado, a researcher is analyzing the level of methylmercury absorbed by fish in the Madre de Dios region.

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26/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - In the laboratory of the Centro de innovacion cientifica Amazonica (Cincia) next to Puerto Maldonado. Detail of the analyzer used to measure the level of methylmercury absorbed by fish in the Madre de Dios region.

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26/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - In the laboratory of the Centro de innovacion cientifica Amazonica (Cincia) next to Puerto Maldonado. Detail of the analyzer used to measure the level of methylmercury absorbed by fish in the Madre de Dios region.

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16/11/2019 - Peru / Madre de Dios - In the market of Puerto Maldonado, the main town of the Madre de Dios region, a seller of Pacu, a fish related to piranhas but herbivorous. It is one of the fish least contaminated with mercury and is therefore edible. In the big city, the inhabitants are now informed about the risks but only on the indications given by CINCIA.

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The Senate approved legal, safe and free abortion in Argentina -
30/12/2020 - Argentina / Buenos Aires - With 38 votes in favor, 29 against and one abstention, abortion is already legal. The Senate passed the law, and Argentina validates the law legalising abortion.

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Alejo Manuel Avila / Le Pictorium -
The Senate approved legal, safe and free abortion in Argentina -
30/12/2020 - Argentina / Buenos Aires - With 38 votes in favor, 29 against and one abstention, abortion is already legal. The Senate passed the law, and Argentina validates the law legalising abortion.

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Alejo Manuel Avila / Le Pictorium -
The Senate approved legal, safe and free abortion in Argentina -
29/12/2020 - Argentina / Buenos Aires - With 38 votes in favor, 29 against and one abstention, abortion is already legal. The Senate passed the law, and Argentina validates the law legalising abortion.

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Alejo Manuel Avila / Le Pictorium -
The Senate approved legal, safe and free abortion in Argentina -
30/12/2020 - Argentina / Buenos Aires - With 38 votes in favor, 29 against and one abstention, abortion is already legal. The Senate passed the law, and Argentina validates the law legalising abortion.

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Alejo Manuel Avila / Le Pictorium -
The Senate approved legal, safe and free abortion in Argentina -
30/12/2020 - Argentina / Buenos Aires - With 38 votes in favor, 29 against and one abstention, abortion is already legal. The Senate passed the law, and Argentina validates the law legalising abortion.

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Alejo Manuel Avila / Le Pictorium -
The Senate approved legal, safe and free abortion in Argentina -
30/12/2020 - Argentina / Buenos Aires - With 38 votes in favor, 29 against and one abstention, abortion is already legal. The Senate passed the law, and Argentina validates the law legalising abortion.

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Alejo Manuel Avila / Le Pictorium -
The Senate approved legal, safe and free abortion in Argentina -
30/12/2020 - Argentina / Buenos Aires - With 38 votes in favor, 29 against and one abstention, abortion is already legal. The Senate passed the law, and Argentina validates the law legalising abortion.

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Alejo Manuel Avila / Le Pictorium -
The Senate approved legal, safe and free abortion in Argentina -
30/12/2020 - Argentina / Buenos Aires - With 38 votes in favor, 29 against and one abstention, abortion is already legal. The Senate passed the law, and Argentina validates the law legalising abortion.

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Alejo Manuel Avila / Le Pictorium -
The Senate approved legal, safe and free abortion in Argentina -
30/12/2020 - Argentina / Buenos Aires - With 38 votes in favor, 29 against and one abstention, abortion is already legal. The Senate passed the law, and Argentina validates the law legalising abortion.

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Alejo Manuel Avila / Le Pictorium -
The Senate approved legal, safe and free abortion in Argentina -
30/12/2020 - Argentina / Buenos Aires - With 38 votes in favor, 29 against and one abstention, abortion is already legal. The Senate passed the law, and Argentina validates the law legalising abortion.

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Alejo Manuel Avila / Le Pictorium -
The Senate approved legal, safe and free abortion in Argentina -
30/12/2020 - Argentina / Buenos Aires - With 38 votes in favor, 29 against and one abstention, abortion is already legal. The Senate passed the law, and Argentina validates the law legalising abortion.

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Alejo Manuel Avila / Le Pictorium -
The Senate approved legal, safe and free abortion in Argentina -
30/12/2020 - Argentina / Buenos Aires - With 38 votes in favor, 29 against and one abstention, abortion is already legal. The Senate passed the law, and Argentina validates the law legalising abortion.

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Alejo Manuel Avila / Le Pictorium -
The Senate approved legal, safe and free abortion in Argentina -
30/12/2020 - Argentina / Buenos Aires - With 38 votes in favor, 29 against and one abstention, abortion is already legal. The Senate passed the law, and Argentina validates the law legalising abortion.

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Alejo Manuel Avila / Le Pictorium -
The Senate approved legal, safe and free abortion in Argentina -
30/12/2020 - Argentina / Buenos Aires - With 38 votes in favor, 29 against and one abstention, abortion is already legal. The Senate passed the law, and Argentina validates the law legalising abortion.

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Alejo Manuel Avila / Le Pictorium -
The Senate approved legal, safe and free abortion in Argentina -
30/12/2020 - Argentina / Buenos Aires - With 38 votes in favor, 29 against and one abstention, abortion is already legal. The Senate passed the law, and Argentina validates the law legalising abortion.

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Alejo Manuel Avila / Le Pictorium -
The Senate approved legal, safe and free abortion in Argentina -
30/12/2020 - Argentina / Buenos Aires - With 38 votes in favor, 29 against and one abstention, abortion is already legal. The Senate passed the law, and Argentina validates the law legalising abortion.

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Alejo Manuel Avila / Le Pictorium -
The Senate approved legal, safe and free abortion in Argentina -
30/12/2020 - Argentina / Buenos Aires - With 38 votes in favor, 29 against and one abstention, abortion is already legal. The Senate passed the law, and Argentina validates the law legalising abortion.

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Alejo Manuel Avila / Le Pictorium -
The Senate approved legal, safe and free abortion in Argentina -
29/12/2020 - Argentina / Buenos Aires - With 38 votes in favor, 29 against and one abstention, abortion is already legal. The Senate passed the law, and Argentina validates the law legalising abortion.

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Alejo Manuel Avila / Le Pictorium -
The Senate approved legal, safe and free abortion in Argentina -
30/12/2020 - Argentina / Buenos Aires - With 38 votes in favor, 29 against and one abstention, abortion is already legal. The Senate passed the law, and Argentina validates the law legalising abortion.

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Alejo Manuel Avila / Le Pictorium -
The Senate approved legal, safe and free abortion in Argentina -
30/12/2020 - Argentina / Buenos Aires - With 38 votes in favor, 29 against and one abstention, abortion is already legal. The Senate passed the law, and Argentina validates the law legalising abortion.

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