In many Central American countries, there are laws that criminalize women, especially through the use of the abortion ban in all circumstances. These measures have led to many women are prosecuted and imprisoned for exercising their right to integral health care. These and other structural causes limit women's autonomy to decide about their bodies, including the planning of their childbearing and the use of family planning methods.
In 2023, the Women's Rights Center (CDM) Honduras, with the support of Calala, conducted a nationwide press survey. The data revealed 742 assaults against women and girls, of which one 58% were crimes against life and 30% were sexual crimes. Alarmingly, a 3% of these crimes were committed against girls between the ages of 0 and 9. In addition, women with disabilities have up to ten times more likely to suffer gender-based violence than those without disabilities.
The states of exception in El Salvador and Nicaragua, together with the militarization in Guatemala and Honduras and the violation of human rights in Nicaragua, have led to the criminalization and incarceration of people from the LBTIQ+ community. Lesbian women with masculine expression, along with trans people, face increased risks of arrest and fear of openly expressing their sexual orientation and gender identity for fear of being imprisoned.
In many Central American countries, there are laws that criminalize women, especially through the prohibition of abortion in all circumstances. These measures have led to many women are prosecuted and imprisoned for exercising their right to integral health care. These and other structural causes limit women's autonomy to decide about their bodies, including the planning of their childbearing and the use of family planning methods.
In today's international political context, it is no longer only economic, border and resource control that matters, but also control over the bodies and rights of women and the LGBTIQ+ community. Therefore, we finance collectives and organizations that defend the right to joy and joyful rebellion as a form of political action. We support initiatives that promote diverse perspectives and strive for equality and human rights.
They defend the right to a violence-free life and create local support networks.
Promote the rights of the people of the LBTIQ+ community.
Support women's rights sex workers.
They put on the public agenda the rights of women with functional diversity.
They promote the sexual and reproductive rights education for women, girls and adolescents.
Training women to become midwives/midwives in order to improve the care and health of women during pregnancy.
They provide information on the right to abortion and free choice of motherhood, in addition to collaborating in the fight for its legalization in countries where it is prohibited.
They are part of a a decolonial approach to accompaniment in the communities in which they work.
Kawoq Women's Collective
Headquartered in El Salvador, is a ecofeminist political space made up of diverse womenThe group includes: peasant women, rural women, unpaid and paid domestic workers, professionals, informal workers, small businesswomen, lesbians, bisexuals, trans women of different ages. They articulate against neoliberal and patriarchal public policies, constructing strategies and proposals against to strengthen resistance in defense of their bodies and territories. They work to guaranteeing women's human rights and sustaining the web of life.
Asociación ASPIDH Arcoiris Trans
It is a trans women's organization that defends and promotes the human rights of LGTBIQ+ people in El Salvador, through activism and advocacy. Its priorities are the representation, visibility and defense of sexual diversity, as well as the protection of human rights.
Las Hijas de Safo Lesbofeminista Collective
It emerged in March 2014 as one of the few lesbian women's collectives in El Salvador. This group assumes lesbofeminism as a radical and transformative political bet, to create spaces for strengthen their autonomy, with the principal claim of the freedom to decide about their bodies, desires and pleasures. They question the heterosexual regime, the institutionalization of violence, neoliberal policies, capitalism, colonialism, racism and classism. Its approach focuses on a policy of healing, self-care and collective care., with the objective of strengthen the lesbofeminist movement in El Salvador.
Mesoamerican Women's Network in Resistance for a Dignified Life
It is an articulation founded in 2004 that works proactively for the empowerment of women and the defense of the body, land and territory. Its mission is to articulate diverse women in the struggle for the defense of their rights, as well as by the care and protection of the web of life, from a feminist economic perspective. In addition, this network acts as an articulating agent with a strong territorial and national commitment, promoting political debate and public denunciation. with public agencies and municipal governments.
Association of indigenous and rural women Ixcoq Mayaj
Sof the Verapaz Union of Campesino Organizations (UVOC). on December 21, 2008, is an organization that works for the integral development of rural and indigenous women of the Q'eqchi', Poqomchi', and Achi communities in the Tezulutlán region of Guatemala. Its mission is to promoting rural development from a cosmogonic and ethnic perspective, advocating for a a fairer, more inclusive and equitable society, with real democracy, where women and indigenous peoples are the protagonists of development. The partnership also focuses on combating inequality and violence against women, offering technical, legal and administrative support to address these issues.
ASOMUJERDI
Sololateca Association of Women for Integral Development (ASOMUJERDI) is a non-profit, socio-cultural and legal entity of women, with no party political or religious affiliation. Its main objective is to preventing early childbearing through information dissemination and the promotion of public participation in development programs. Its activities include training, radio programming and festivals oriented to the promotion of the human rights of women and girls. girls, adolescents and young women of K'iche’ Mayan ethnicity.
Tik Na'oj
They are a group that provides analytical tools to promote a critical vision on issues related to indigenous peoples, youth, political participation, migration and sustainable projects. They seek to contribute to establishment of stakeholder groups that have a political impact on their communities to transform social reality. Empowering youth, through knowledge, in order to political, social, economic and cultural influence.
Butterflies Collective HN 88
Created in 2019, this collective is currently the first feminist organization of women with disabilities in Honduras. It is an organization run by women with functional diversity and caregivers, who face discrimination due to disability. 1. Self-care and recognition of the rights of women with functional diversity. 2. Sexual and reproductive health. 3. Employability. 4. Political participation. 5. Gender-based violence.
Matria Collective
It is a collective of young women who undertake actions to increase Honduran women's access to information on sexual and reproductive rights through the development of self-managed processes of feminist political education, the management and attention of a telephone line called “La Línea Segura Hn” where women can make their queries, and through the use of art in workshops and street actions.
Rainbow Dolls
It is a collective of trans women and sex workers in Honduras.
Casiopea Collective
This group of women of the Honduran Atlantic Coast is organized for the purpose of to politically, economically and culturally transform the reality of girls, adolescents and women in the Region., promoting values and principles oriented towards the deconstruction of patriarchy, colonialism, and imperialism, The main goal is to achieve the following full emancipation of women.
Network I don't want to be raped
Women's Rights Center
Feminist, autonomous, critical and proactive organization., which strives for the strengthening of autonomy, the exercise and enjoyment of rights, citizenship, equality and gender justice for women since 1992.
The Central American Parasol
It was created in 2015 in response to the need to create a common bloc of organizations defending sexual and reproductive rights in order to highlight the violation of the rights of Central American women. It is a regional platform that brings together more than 50 sexual and reproductive rights organizations from seven countries in the region (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and the Dominican Republic)., with spaces of articulation also at the national level.
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