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When we are fortunate enough to embrace, listen to, watch, work with and learn from the diverse people who make up the movements, our hope is renewed, we realize our commitmen... SEE THE NEWS

Having conversations and continuing to learn about the defense of digital rights is something we have been doing as UAF-LAC for some time now. During September 2024, we traveled to Portugal to pa... SEE THE NEWS

From the Urgent Action Fund for Latin America and the Caribbean (UAF-LAC) we support organizations and/or collectives led by women and sexual and gender dissidents, from a place of closeness and ... SEE THE NEWS

Between October 11 and 13, 2024, we had the opportunity to accompany, listen to and learn from more than 80 thousand women and sexual and gender dissidents. With strength and despite a severe eco... SEE THE NEWS

This June 28th, International LGBTQINB+ [1]Pride Day, we consider it important to poi... SEE THE NEWS

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Today, March 21, is International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. On this day we remember the massacre against demonstrators protesting the imposition of apa... SEE THE NEWS

This past October, three colleagues from the UAF-LAC team traveled to San Luis, Argentina to accompany the Plurinational Gathering of Women, Lesbians, Trans, Travestis, Bisexuals, Intersex and Non-Binary People, a feminist... SEE THE NEWS

Since 2005, May 17th has been known as International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. More than just a date, it is a global opportunity to recognize that gender dissidence shows us that it is possible to f... SEE THE NEWS

Two years have passed since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, a historical event to which governments responded with isolation and confinement mandates. As... SEE THE NEWS

Centering care is our ethical-political commitment. It is an approach that we continue to build and nurture internally and in our accompaniment to the femininist movements in the region. Through collective reflections, we ... SEE THE NEWS

“This space was created with the idea that we would change the world, but then COVID happened and it changed us.”

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In 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic unleashed a crisis that has impacted a wide range of arenas, with particular consequences in community life. In Latin America, the crisis has revealed and increas... SEE THE NEWS

Quite often, I am asked about how I became a feminist. This question is a commonplace for black Brazilian women. At the end of the day, since we were born as black individuals in the last count... SEE THE NEWS

Racism has never been talked about so much. Throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, movements, collectives, organizations, study groups, and networks are emerging or strengthening of Black ... SEE THE NEWS

My afro-descendant roots are still unknown to me; although they are evident in my curls, my hips and skin color, which denote a history and roots of African heritage and that I am an afro-desce... SEE THE NEWS

"The fight itself moves us. We are many. I am not alone."

From November 25 to Decem... SEE THE NEWS

In times of coronavirus (COVID-19), the emergency with which we have to deal with chaos tests the ability to relate to each... SEE THE NEWS

Almost a year ago, I went to a donor meeting to discuss and analyze the closing of civil society spaces. Two of the central themes of the conversation were how we imagined the future and dystop... SEE THE NEWS

Between August 18th and 23rd , we met in Cochabamba, Bolivia, with 18 women's organizations from different territories of Latin America. We exchanged experience... SEE THE NEWS

Every year, the Rapid Response Grants (RRGs) team organizes an encounter for systematizing experiences centered on a topic identified as a trend in Latin America... SEE THE NEWS

We express our solidarity against the ecocide suffered throughout Latin America and the world due to the fires in the Amazon region of Brazil, Bolivia and Paragu... SEE THE NEWS

We have TWO NEW communication channels for concerns and procedures on Rapid Response Grants

+57 313 5529363

+57 313 5532423

On the regular communication channel, you’ll keep reaching Technical Sup... SEE THE NEWS

On June 6th, 2019, the campaign: “Comunidad internacional en alerta por una Colombia en paz” (“International community – emergency call for a Colombia in... SEE THE NEWS

Eleanor Douglas was born in Winnipeg, a cold and small town in western Canada. At 21, she decided to undertake a trip by land in search of the mysteries of Latin... SEE THE NEWS

The importance of making a PAUSE and to celebrate first, between us

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From April 10 and 12 we participated in the CREA #Recon2019 event, which took place in Kathmandu, Nepal. We had the opportunity to attend in the company of Luna Irazábal, a young ... SEE THE NEWS

From April 1 to 5, 2019 Sara Munárriz, Communications Coordinator and Alejandra Henriquez, Communications Officer for FAU-AL participated in the Internet Freedom Festival – Val... SEE THE NEWS

As 2019 has progressed, the violence, attacks, repression, and killing of social leaders in Colombia has become increasingly disheartening. Attacks against wome... SEE THE NEWS

Each year, the Rapid Response Support team chooses and visits a country in the region, to approach the women's and feminist movement, personally talk with the activists-defenders a... SEE THE NEWS

On December 1 and 2, 2018, UAF-LAC participated in XII Convening of Women Activists and Civil Society Leaders. This event is convened each year by the Platform PRO CUIDADOS (PRO CA... SEE THE NEWS

We invite you to join us and participate in the campaign “Por la Libertad de las Presas Políticas de Nicaragua.”

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Between January 21st and 25th, we accompanied the Feminist Solidarity Mission “The Hug,” organized by the Mesoamerican Women Human Rights Defenders Initiative and the National Network of Wom... SEE THE NEWS

For almost eight months Nicaragua has been immersed in a political, economic, and social crisis. During the last 11 years, the despotic methods implemented by Da... SEE THE NEWS

More and more, everybody is talking about abortion. This includes people who practice abortions and those who don't, doctors and journalists, feminist and anti-rights groups. With the 13J and 8A... SEE THE NEWS

Viktoria Marinova. Image courtesy of npr.org.

Within women human rights activist circles, the recent rape and murder of Viktoria Marinova, journalist covering EU corruption, is all too familiar to circumst... SEE THE NEWS

Here, in this space of sharing, is an opportune moment to talk about security and care among activists, together with representatives of the Latin American feminist movement. This ... SEE THE NEWS

In May 2017 we held our "outreach" or recognition visit to Nicaragua. We met with 64 organizations to learn about the country's context, the current situation, a... SEE THE NEWS

In the context of the GAGGA alliance, we opened a third call for applications for Strategic Grants, for El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and... SEE THE NEWS

Why is it important to reflect on the struggles one identifies with and with the feelings one relates to those struggles? Were the starting questions posed by UAF-Latin America and FRIDA| The Young Feminist Fund p... SEE THE NEWS

On June 13th, 14th, and 15th in Rionegro, Antioquia we brought together 20 organizations from Mexico, El Salvador, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Paraguay, Hond... SEE THE NEWS

The Urgent Action Funds (Latin America and the United States), together with international human rights coalitions and in collaboration with the HRC Special Procedures, convened a ... SEE THE NEWS

The Feminist Funds express our solidarity with the resistance of Nicaragua's women's movement and feminists, who together with the organized civil society, have faced state repression in the streets of this Central America... SEE THE NEWS