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Women from 10 Countries Lead Urban Culture Festival in Ecuador

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A festival of urban culture led by women artists from around ten countries will give away today new graffiti to the capital of Ecuador, hosting a groundbreaking event of this kind. The festival, entitled Warmi Paint 2015 will bring together more than 20 female artists from countries such as Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Ecuador, to make visible the creative endeavors of young women in the Americas. Some of them will display their skills with graffiti on the streets, others will work together in large-scale murals, as evidence of the flourishing in the street

Woman fights gov’t so she can donate kidney to sister-in-law

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Daniela Peralta, a 32-year- old woman from Ecuador, wants to save her sister-in-law, Susy Hinojosa, but the government is interfering. Peralta wants to donate one of her kidneys to Hinojosa who is suffering from nephritis and renal failure. Peralta has passed all of the necessary tests to donate, including compatibility, but national law does not allow voluntary donations. The law was put in place to prevent illegal organ trafficking.

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