Reproductive rights in Latin America seen a steady increase of feminist abortion activists, despite religion making the issue taboo. Even when legislation has become more lenient (as has been the case recently with Mexico City and Chile), women often face institutional barriers to gaining access to abortions. When it comes to reporting data on abortions in Latin America, estimated abortion levels are often heterogeneous and highly variable due to legal frameworks and social stigmas. According to the World Health Organization, in 2008, approximately "4.2 million abortions were conducted in Latin America and the Caribbean, almost three-fourths of them in South America. Virtually all these procedures
Austrian Latin America Institute America Institute is Austria's largest language school for Spanish, Portuguese and Indigenous languages offering about 300 courses annually. The Austrian Latin America Institute offers information and advice to all people interested in Latin America and Latin American students in particular. The event calendar includes exhibitions, book presentations, concerts, lectures and discussions. The Austrian Latin America Institute itself is no research institute, but it supports the "Austrian Study-Group for Latin-American Research" ("Arbeitsgemeinschaft Österreichische Lateinamerikaforschung"). The object of this association is scientific networking, interdisciplinary exchange and cooperation of researchers in Austria. It regards itself as an open forum offering young scientists the