8M Declaration

A new year in which we commemorate the tragic events that remind us why March 8th is called "International Women's Day" reminds us that we have achieved significant gains through the struggle and organization of the feminist movement. Nevertheless, debts owed to women remain.

The governments of Latin America and the Caribbean must undertake a thorough review. The living conditions of women and gender-diverse people continue to worsen and deepen, and despite being rights holders, they are unable to achieve real access to the opportunities necessary to obtain the basic necessities for their survival.

In a context of steadily increasing gender-based violence in our countries, it is necessary to demand that governments declare states of emergency to address these realities that overwhelm the institutions responsible for attending to, supporting, and preventing these situations. Without the decisive support of governments for the development of policies and programs,
With plans and projects, it will be impossible for the figures to decrease in the short term.

Institutional commitment is required for the implementation of comprehensive policies to combat the violence suffered daily by women, adolescents and girls, which, in addition to developing prevention actions, advance policies of co-responsibility to improve educational conditions, decent job opportunities and the economic empowerment of women.

Likewise, academia should be called upon to discuss, in light of this date, the integration of violence prevention and the recognition and protection of women's rights into educational curricula. This is a responsibility framed within our social function as centers for training future professionals.
They will be responsible for supporting and assisting women in their care.

It is important to highlight the trans women of Latin America and the Caribbean, who, through their disruptive approach, have placed the dignification of their life experiences and the full exercise of their citizenship on the public agenda, in a patriarchal society that defines the place of women by their sex.

Finally as CLACSO Working Group on anti-patriarchal struggles, families, genders, diversities and citizenships We reaffirm the need to continue denouncing and taking action against all forms of violence.

March 8th 2023
CLACSO Working Group
Anti-patriarchal struggles, families, genders, diversities and citizenships

This statement expresses the position of the aforementioned Working Group and not necessarily that of the centers and institutions that make up the CLACSO international network, its Steering Committee or its Executive Secretariat.