Gender

In a context of activism against gender inequalities and violence against women and the LGTBIQ+ community, we promote public policies and practices in the private sector that guarantee human rights of all sex-gender identities. In addition, we promote spaces for reflection and social action, in alliance with different sectors of civil society.

Work Focus / Agendas

  • Sexual and (non) reproductive rights and Comprehensive Sex Education (ESI)
  • Feminist Economics, Care and sustainability of life
  • Gender and political participation
  • Communication and gender
  • Gender and IFIs (International Financial Institutions)

Main activities

  • Monitoring access to sexual and (non) reproductive rights at local and national levels. Litigation and research for the implementation of Legal and Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy Law. Building capacities with healthcare workers through counseling, training, and spaces for reflection and debate.
  • Research, building capacity and gathering of local, national and regional experiences in Feminist Economics and Care Work, from a life sustainability perspective.
  • Monitoring public gender and communication policies, and research regarding the participation of women in public and private media, advertising agencies, union organizations and educational institutions. 
  • Monitoring environmental and social standards for development financing from a gender perspective.
  • Mapping the political participation of women in political representation positions at the provincial and national levels, and monitoring the application of parity laws. Promoting women’s political rights in collaboration with social and labor organizations.
  • Submission of reports to international human rights organizations

Area Coordinator › Romina Pezzelato

Romina has a degree in Communication Sciences from the National University of Córdoba, with a specialization in gender and education at FLACSO_PRIGGEP and a Diploma in Community Feminisms from Abya Yala (National University of Jujuy). Her experience is linked to popular education and feminist struggle.
Since 2019, she has been part of La Marea Noticias and La Marea Formación, where she participated in the “Respect is law” campaign on the Gender Identity Law. She was a consultant in the Gender and Diversity Directorate of the Ministry of Health, coordinating the training of health professionals.

For more than five years he has been giving talks and conferences related to access to the rights of trans children and adolescents. She is also a member of IELSAN (Institute of Legal and Social Studies of Lawyers for Girls, Boys and Adolescents.)

Currently, she coordinates the Gender and Diversity Area at Fundeps.

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32nd National Meeting of Women: a movement that resists

From 14 to 16 October, the long-awaited National Women's Encounter (ENM) was held in the north of our country, in the city of Resistencia, Chaco.
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We continue to build equality from the right

In the city of Mendoza, on September 8 and 9, the "National Meeting of the Lawyers Alliance for the Human Rights of Women" took place, in which we participated to continue building gender equality from the law.
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70 years of female vote

September 23 is a reminder that gains in rights raise the bar for all citizens, and that a right can achieve that more than half of the population can finally choose. It has been 70 years since Argentina passed the law that allowed women to elect or be elected to political office.
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Presentation of report on media violence against women before CSW

On 1 August, together with Comunicación Igualdad, we presented a report on the situation of public policies on gender and communication before the Commission of the Legal and Social Commission for Women (CSW).

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