The women of the “Nueva Esperanza” (New Hope) Humanitarian Zone said that don’t know about March 8th’s historical intricacies: who decided that it would be celebrated as Women’s Day, why that day and not another,… Continue reading “Regardless of all we have suffered, we have won the battle”: Agripina Sierra
Category Archives: Women Human Rights Defenders
#UsWomenDefenders: Healing
Chapter 8: Healing
Women defenders put their bodies, minds and spirit into their work defending human rights. Continue reading #UsWomenDefenders: Healing
#UsWomenDefenders: Selfcare
Chapter 7, Selfcare
Exhaustion produced by human rights defense work is not normally viewed as a priority for defenders and their organisations. Continue reading #UsWomenDefenders: Selfcare
Different Aspects of Protection
Chapter 5: Different aspects of protection
We can´t speak any more of individual or fragmented protection. Continue reading Different Aspects of Protection
#UsWomenDefenders: The impacts of violence
Chapter 2, The impacts of violence
part one
Women defenders confront specific forms of violence with respect to men. Amongst the most common aggressions that women defenders in Mesoamerica experience are psychological threats, defamation, smear campaigns, threats, criminalisation, sexual violence or killings. Continue reading #UsWomenDefenders: The impacts of violence