«I am because the others are.»

Research on the contribution of the women's movement to the advancement of human rights

The influence that the feminist movement has had on our lives and on the change of values and social customs in the last century is undeniable and is part of the social consensus.

The countries that have been able to enjoy a strong and organized feminist movement, The Spanish state, as is the case in Spain, can explain how women's lives have changed from one generation to the next. Right to vote, to divorce, to abortion, to have a bank account, access to the labor market and the questioning of the sustainability of the working day, work-life balance, co-responsibility... Many rights have been achieved and many debates have been opened.

Below you can listen to the audios that are part of this research:

Right to a life free of gender-based and sexual violence

Testimony of Antonia Avalos (#1)

[...] «With the machismo, the patriarchy, that we women suffer every day, we would not have that hope, that tenderness and that strength to continue fighting and to continue living...».»

Testimony of Beatríz Cantero (#2)

«Feminism has a fundamental role in my life, it is part of my life project [...] It has always been a very important axis to understand that with the sisters you can survive this violence and be able to transform the world...»

Testimony of Lucrecia Janqui (#3)

[...] «Feminism has helped me to understand that the issue was not only mine but that it was a structural issue, an issue of injustice towards women...».»

Testimonial by Begoña Zabala (#4)

«A world appeared to us with the feminist movement, because we saw that suddenly other things could be done than what we were predestined to do [...] We were born at the right time and with the right and opportune forces to be able to sign up for what was really a revolution in our changes in our way of life...»

Right to voluntary termination of pregnancy

Bill - Testimony of Mar Grandal (#5)I apologize, but I cannot translate a blank input. Please provide the text you would like me to translate.

«2009 was a milestone in that struggle to achieve the 2010 law (which has now fortunately been modified) and there women were already able to decide in the first three months. This was a struggle of the feminist movement...»

Latin America - Testimony of Rosa Maldonado (#6)I apologize, but I cannot translate a blank input. Please provide the text you would like me to translate.

«The struggle was built over many years, starting with the women's meeting that Argentina has had for many years, and in 2003-2005 the Catholics for the right to decide had a campaign, with a green ribbon, for the decriminalization of abortion...»

Law Reform - Testimony of Julia Santos (#7)I apologize, but I cannot translate a blank input. Please provide the text you would like me to translate.

«The issue of the suppression of parental consent for 16- and 17-year-old adolescents is an issue that is dealt with from the student feminist bloc [...] My struggle has seemed to me one of the most important things, that paternalism with young girls is eliminated [...] and the suppression of the three days of reflection...»

Catholic Church - Testimony of Mar Grandal (#8)I apologize, but I cannot translate a blank input. Please provide the text you would like me to translate.

«We really constituted ourselves as Catholics because of the interference there has always been on the part of the Catholic Church in the denial of women's sexual and reproductive rights. It was a decisive moment for us when they called us from many, many places because they believed and considered that our argument was very valuable for many women who, in fact, had abortions, were Catholic and had such tremendous guilt...»

The right to gender self-determination of transgender persons

Violence and Marriage - Testimony of Aitzole Araneta (#9)I apologize, but I cannot translate a blank input. Please provide the text you would like me to translate.

«A milestone, despite the fact that there is an underlying criticism around the issue of marriage but perhaps marriage between people of the same sex, [...] is in 2007 with the first Law of Equality, and in 2004 the Law on Gender Violence which also meant a paradigm shift [...] of private intimate relationships and also in the public sphere...»

Depathologization - Testimony of Aitzole Araneta (#10)I apologize, but I cannot translate a blank input. Please provide the text you would like me to translate.

«[...] the movement to make visible that trans people are not sick, that we do not have a mental pathology, nor is there anything wrong with our bodies, [...] it was the very visibilization at the beginning of the 2010s to start talking about depathologization...»

Conference in Granada - Testimony of Tino (#11)I apologize, but I cannot translate a blank input. Please provide the text you would like me to translate.

«[...] to broaden other identities that were not being picked up, that were being talked about a lot was very groundbreaking in the manifesto, since before it was like a more delimited little drawer thing where it is true that there were dissidences...»

Trans Children - Testimony of Saida Garcia (#12)I apologize, but I cannot translate a blank input. Please provide the text you would like me to translate.

«...] a very important point I think is the role of children, to have trans referents of adults, to imagine themselves in the future, to see themselves happy and to know that their lives are possible...»

Home and Care Employment Rights

Demonstration - Testimony of Rafaela Pimentel (#13)I apologize, but I cannot translate a blank input. Please provide the text you would like me to translate.

«[...] a large demonstration, which was one of the first when we started to go out to Lavapiés square,[...] it was when they brought out many intern models...»

Royal Decree - Testimony of Constanza Cisneros and Rafaela Pimentel (#14)I apologize, but I cannot translate a blank input. Please provide the text you would like me to translate.

«[...] The Royal Decree in 2011 was when we got the four fundamental things for many domestic workers, to get the discharge, the sick leave, on the third day that we had a written contract, that we will pay contributions from the first hour and the right to vacation...»

Cooperative - Testimonial by Jamileth Chavarría (#15)I apologize, but I cannot translate a blank input. Please provide the text you would like me to translate.

«When we came to consolidate the cooperative [...] it made us understand that we that neither the placement agency nor the big companies could trade with our labor force...»

Strike - Constanza Cisneros and Rafaela Pimentel (#16)I apologize, but I cannot translate a blank input. Please provide the text you would like me to translate.

«...] We were able to go to universities to talk about domestic employment, we went to the markets, activities and actions were carried out and from there we created the idea of putting aprons on the balconies [...] many of us will not be able to strike because our jobs are in danger, so we are going to raise awareness and we are going to make it clear that on that day there are women who are doing very important work and that although we have the right to strike we cannot afford to do so...»

Domestic and Care Workers Union (SINTRAHOCU) - Rafaela Pimentel (#17)I apologize, but I cannot translate a blank input. Please provide the text you would like me to translate.

«SINTRAHOCU was born out of the need for domestic workers to organize ourselves at the union level because we knew that [...] to be at the negotiating table there have to be the unions, the government and the employers...»

Agreement 189 - Constanza Cisneros (#18)I apologize, but I cannot translate a blank input. Please provide the text you would like me to translate.

«The ratification of Convention 189 in June 2022 is also important because that's when we say that we were fighting for everyone, not only for us but also for the compas who are arriving and for those who are not even here anymore...»

Food Sovereignty and women's rights in the agricultural sector

Ganaderas - Testimonial by Elisa Oteros (#19)I apologize, but I cannot translate a blank input. Please provide the text you would like me to translate.

«Another achievement, I believe that without a doubt, is the appearance of ganaderas en red [...] because as they have appeared in all the media, they have won awards, now it is impossible for there to be a political, public or private event of a space for dialogue/debate with civil society in which we are not invited...»

Via Campesina - Testimony of Isa Alvarez (#20)I apologize, but I cannot translate a blank input. Please provide the text you would like me to translate.

«[...] This articulation has been important to make many struggles visible and, above all, to generate synergies...»

Ownership - Testimonial by Elisa Oteros and Isa Álvarez (#21)I apologize, but I cannot translate a blank input. Please provide the text you would like me to translate.

«The Shared Ownership law in the Spanish State is quite recent [...] it came from the fruit of a claim [...] to have shared ownership and equal rights in an exploitation...»

Agrofeminista - Testimony of Elisa Oteros and Isa Álvarez (#22)I apologize, but I cannot translate a blank input. Please provide the text you would like me to translate.

«Another entry point that has more to do with feminism [...] has been a network of feminist women in the agroecological movement for food sovereignty at the state level...»

SOS Campesinado - Testimony of Isa Alvarez (#23)I apologize, but I cannot translate a blank input. Please provide the text you would like me to translate.

«During the pandemic, when the producers» markets closed... we started to work [...] with a manifesto [...] each one of us doing what we could and seeing a need that was important for us because of the repercussion it had [...] with all the adhesions it achieved".»