A denunciation of abuses committed against renowned feminists and solidarity with all women facing violations of their rights
Within the framework of the 9th Latin American and Caribbean Conference of Social Sciences CLACSO-2022, held in Mexico City, we, the members of the CLACSO Working Group on Feminisms, Resistance and EmancipationWe express our solidarity with the renowned feminists Dora María Téllez, Ana Margarita Vigil, Suyen Barahona, Violeta Granera, María Fernanda Flores, María Oviedo, Nidia Barbosa, Samantha Jirón, Tamara Dávila, among others arbitrarily imprisoned by the despotic Nicaraguan government; with the political and feminist leader Francia Márquez, victim of racist and classist threats and insults during her vice-presidential campaign in Colombia; and with the students Leslie Vásquez, Noemí Valdez, and Kenya Urrutia, and Professor Lucía Terron, who have been intimidated and criminalized for opposing the electoral fraud at the University of San Carlos of Guatemala, which violates university autonomy.
All of them have fought to defend our rights and to resist a colonial, capitalist, neoliberal and patriarchal system that has generated profound social inequalities, poverty, exclusion and violence in our continent.
This is about restricting and silencing, through threats, intimidation, judicialization, illegal imprisonment, and even death, the free exercise of political rights in defense of human rights, and especially in the protection of our rights as women activists, politicians, and fighters against oppressive and exclusionary regimes.
Therefore, Our GT raises a voice of continental denunciation Against all these abuses, it reiterates its solidarity with all women who are facing violations of their rights; it demands that the governments in question and the international community comply with international treaties regarding commitments to the eradication of all these forms of violence ratified in CEDAW, and in the Belem do Pará Convention, especially political violence focused on these activists.
We call upon the Latin American academic community, free-press, critical and committed to the causes of social justice, to join in this denunciation, and to express their solidarity with those who fight for other possible worlds.
June 11th, 2022
CLACSO Working Group
Feminisms, resistance and emancipation
This statement expresses the position of the Working Group on Feminisms, resistance and emancipation and not necessarily that of the centers and institutions that make up the CLACSO international network, its Steering Committee or its Executive Secretariat.
