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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Serious setback for judicial independence and institutional quality in the Supreme Court

The decision of the Executive Branch to appoint two men to the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation by decree, without the agreement of the Senate and through appointments on commission, constitutes an undue advance by the president over the…
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IACHR alert: Argentina must uphold its gender policies to protect human rights

In a historic hearing, the IACHR was informed of the regression of gender policies and access to sexual and reproductive health in Argentina and the State's failure to comply with its obligations. The economic justification of the cuts by the…
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Civil society organizations and academics reject before the Senate the candidacy of Lijo and García-Mansilla to the CSJN

Gides (Social Rights Research Group), Fundeps (Foundation for the Development of Sustainable Policies), El Telar and Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir Argentina we appear before the Chamber of Senators of the Nation to explain…
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They ask the Senate to guarantee a composition of the Supreme Court that includes women

Given the absence of women in the presidential proposal to fill the vacancies in the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, a group of 12 civil society organizations sent a letter to the president of the Agreements Commission of the Chamber…

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