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The Women’s Sector
The Women’s Sector is a network that promotes political alliance founded on feminist and leftist ideology among different organizations. The network is composed of women’s organizations, as well as other civil society organizations promoting women’s rights, whose principles, values and other political actions explicitly integrate the elimination of discrimination, oppression, subordination and subjugation of women and the general population into their work.
The Women’s Sector formed in 1994 during the process of drafting the Peace Accords, primarily as a space where women’s organizations from the department of Guatemala could voice their needs and concerns. By 1996, it had gained recognition as a National Network made up of many types of organizations—social, co-ed, exclusively women’s organizations, as well as individual women—from rural and urban areas and diverse ethnic backgrounds.
The Women's Sector focuses on:
- Ethnic and gender discrimination
- Discrimination for sexual orientation
- Violence and impunity
- Lack of access to justice
- Exploitation, marginalization and exclusion
- Social injustice
"United in this effort, we are: All women; Mayan, Xinca, Garífuna, Mestiza, rural and urban, poor and middle-class, young and adult, lesbian and heterosexual."
Strategies:
- Creation of women’s political consciousness
- Organization of women and feminist movement as a social force
- Dialogue with other social and political actors
- Mobilization, public action and policy proposals
Programs:
- Organization and Leadership Training
- Women’s Economic Development
- End Violence Against Women: Struggle Against Impunity and Access to Justice
Women’s Sector Members
Guatemala City
Integral Health Association—ASI
Artisan House Collective
Investigation and Popular Education Center—CIEP
Christian Women’s Council—CMC
Lesbian Collective—Todas Somos
Independent Life Collective of Guatemala
Society for Youth Development, Civil Society (SODEJU, S.C.)
Guillermo Torriello Foundation—FGT
Guatemalan Women’s Group—GGM
Sanjuaneras Women’s Association—AGIMS
Organization for the Advancement of Women—OMES
Women’s Rights Program at the Center for Legal and Human Rights Action—CALDH
Guatemala Network for Women’s Action—REDEMPA
Ministry for Women, Labor Unions and Workers of Guatemala—UNSITRAGUA
Collective Voices of Women
‘Feminist Women of the Left Collective
Association of United Employed and Unemployed Women Against Violence—AMUCV
San Marcos
Flor de Retama Women’s Association for Development—ASOMDIFRE
Association for Intercultural Movement of Western Youth—ASOMIJO
Jalapa
Association of Indigenous Women of Santa María Xalapán—AMISMAXAJ
Huehuetenango
Association for Huehuetecas' Women’s Development—ADIMH
Mam Women’s Association for Development—ASOMAMD
Sacatepéquez
Women’s Association for Sacatepéquez Development—AFEDES
Autonomous and United Xenacorena Women’s Sector—SMAUX
Ecumenical Formation Services of Central America—SEFCA
Sololá
Ixkoq’a Tz’olojya’Association
Escuintla
Palineca Jawalt Tinimit Association
Totonicapán
Association for the Development of Unimal Reranimá Ixoq’—ADIURI
Quetzaltenango
Rural Colomba Women’s Association—AMARC
National Association of Traditional Comadronas of Guatemala—ACAM
Chimaltenango
Women’s Ecumenical Network for the Conference of Evangelical Churches of Guatemala—REM
Alta Verapaz and Baja Verapaz
Semilla Women’s Association for the Future—ASOMUSEF
Contact:
Departamento de Guatemala. 5a. Calle 3-20 Zona 1
Telephone: 22514840 – 22381658
Email:
sandra.moran@sectordemujeres.org
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