Dozens of women’s organizations and individuals have launched a campaign to denounce and confront feminicide as a product of the relations of power and domination that the patriarchal system has established over the last 5,000 years.
REPAK (Kurdish Women’s Relation Office) is among the promoters of the campaign, the declaration of which includes the following:
“All feminicide is political, it is a product of the relations of power and domination that the patriarchal system has established over the last 5,000 years. From then until now, the alliance of religion, state and military continues to subjugate the land, the people and the women.
All these murders are an expression of a dominant mentality that only accepts its right to property, and consequently, a meek and silent obedience of women. All these murders indicate how ruthless are the powers-that-be who aim to curb the power of the toiling majority, how despotic are the ruling class against toiling class women and the rest of the marginalized sectors. Tyranny and militarism, assault and invasion control the world, targeting those who dissent and defend their rights.
We witness a clear increase of political murders perpetrated by nation states, paramilitary forces and state-owned enterprises against female political and community leaders worldwide on behalf of transnational economic interests. If we look at the profile of the women that are murdered in assassinations, we see that they have a certain vanguard role in organizing and leading the struggle against exploitation. Activists, intellectuals, lawyers, journalists, artists, revolutionaries and politicians who defend their homeland, collective territory and their living environment as representatives of women’s rights, human rights, indigenous people. They are targeted because of their leading role within their organizations and communities facing the greed of economic interests.
Enough! We can't take it anymore!!! That is why we have decided to weave ourselves to life to take care of each other and stop feminicides; particularly those against women who understand this and fight against this, for our freedom as humanity.
So, as the women that we are: We want to unveil and denounce the root of these feminicides against our pioneers and precursors of the time of freedom. We want to collectively read the context to know why we are being killed. We want to expose the structures of power that promote and benefit from our criminalization, finger-pointing and death. We want to interchange experiences of our own justice that from the territories is overflowing the patriarchal, colonial, state, racist, capitalist (in)justice. We want to join autonomous tribunals that have already set historical examples for the struggle and defense of women defenders.
We, descendants of burned and liberated witches, granddaughters of colonized and enslaved women, daughters of civilized and citizenized women, are heirs of millenary wisdoms, we are caretakers of our territorialities and from different spheres we continue to fight for life in spite of the death that is imposed on us. We are those who summon ourselves to weave ourselves here and now, from a critical and self-critical perspective that allows us to organize ourselves and move together against feminicides, to recognize, confront and overcome the patriarchal pact.
We know about the systematic, the common patterns and the impunity that exists everywhere. We know about the countless organizations, initiatives and campaigns around the world that are investigating, exposing and denouncing feminicides now, and those that have done so throughout history. We know about the courts and their efforts to exercise justice against the state and transnational corporations. For this reason, our intention is not to create yet another structure or monopolize the struggle against feminicides, but to organize ourselves internationally as the women that we are, to weave ourselves together in defense of women defenders. To commit ourselves and do whatever it takes to put an end to feminicides of pioneers and precursors, that are destroying social struggles.
To begin this process, we will promote a campaign against feminicides by building on the sisterhood and solidarity between organizations, on the trust and affinity between women and on the ethical and political commitment that calls us all to make justice against the injustice suffered by us women in the world. For all of this and for all that cannot be mentioned of anger, pain and inspiration, we propose as an essential principle that this effort against the assassination of pioneer and precursor women belongs to all of us who commit ourselves to this. Let no one assume ownership of what belongs to all of us, and we assume each one of us: life, justice and the struggle for our freedom.”
ORGANIZATIONS:
- Acción Afro-Dominicana, Dominic Republic
- Acid Magazine - Feminist Publication
- Afro Las Malungas Women's Collective, Colombia
- Alianza Ceibo Foundation, Ecuador - Alicia Salazar, Executive Director
- Alternative Vision, A.C., Mexico
- Amazon Frontlines - AF
- Antipatriarchal Communitarian Feminism, Qullasuyu, Marka, Bolivia
- Anti-patriarchal Community Feminism
- Aquelarre, visual communication and design laboratory, Popayán, Cauca, Colombia
- Autonomous Women and Dissidents of the Committee of Solidarity with Kurdistan, Mexico City
- Casafem, Paraguay
- CEPLA Ecuador
- Chimborazo Provincial Preparatory Committee for the 3rd International Meeting of ALyC Women. Brazil 2022.
- Collective Ana Peralta, Ecuador
- Chiapas Women's Rights Center, Mexico
- Colectiva Caracol Artesanal, Mexico
- Collective of Anthropology of Ecuador
- Collective Café de Mujeres, Mexico
- Collective Not One Less - Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Commune Women Ecuador
- Committee of solidarity with Kurdistan - Ecuador
- Community practices for the rescue of memory and Life. Women fighting Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
- CONCONAWEP - Coordinating Council of the Waorani Nationality of Ecuador-Pastaza, Nemonte Nenquimo, President
- Coordinator of peasant and indigenous women, Paraguay
- Courage, Germany
- Dissident Cholas, Chile
- Diversa House, Paraguay
- Feminism, gender, intersectionality and political subjects, Master's degree in education and human rights from UNAULA, Colombia
- Feminist citizen collective "Don't wait for it to happen to you", Ecuador
- Feminist Runas Collective, Ecuador
- GABRIELA National Alliances of Filipino Women, Philippines
- Insurgent Women's Network, Mexico
- #keinemehr (Germany)
- Kongreya Star, Rojava - North East Syria
- Kufa e.V., Germany
- Kuña Sororas Collective, Paraguay
- Kurdish Women’s Relations Office (REPAK), Iraqi Kurdistan
- Latin American Association for Alternative Development, ALDEA, Ecuador
- Latin American Feminist Network: community spaces for self-care Ecuador
- Latin American Network against gender violence, regional
- Macarena, Colombia
- Madre Tierra Newspaper, Medellín, Colombia
- Mapuche women's network Trawun pu zomo, Cholchol commune, Wallmapu
- MuMaLa-Women of the Latin American Matria, Argentina
- MundoSur, regional
- Ñotyhara feminist collective, Paraguay
- OSU Women, Paraguay
- Platform of Feminist University Women - PUF, Paraguay
- Pocho house cultural still life, Ludueña, Rosario, Argentina
- Politically Incorrect Collective, Mexico
- Popular Female Front, Ecuador
- Red Colectivas Feministas de Michoacán, Mexico.
- Relatives and companions of victims and survivors of femicides, Ecuador.
- Resistance Theater, Chile
- Ruda Collective Feminist Ecuador
- SERUNI, Indonesia
- SETAA Communities - Planters of Territories, Waters and Autonomies, affected by Hidroituango
- Siona Buenavista Indigenous Reservation, Colombia
- Socio-environmental Committee of the 8M Feminist Coordinator, Chile
- Stop Honor Killings, Iran
- Sycorax Collective, Quito, Ecuador
- Team for addressing gender violence of La Red Agroecológica, Paraguay
- The Purple Comadres, Venezuela
- Women and the Sixth, Mujeres y La Sexta, Mexico
- Women’s Council of the Future Party, North East Syria
- Women Corporation, San Pedro de la Paz, Wallmapu
- Women for Change, Ecuador
- Women from Alternative Vision, Mujeres de Visión Alternativa, Mexicali, BC, Mexico
- Women’s Initiative Against Feminicide and Occupation, MENA Region
- Women's House - Bañado Tacumbu, Paraguay
- Women Movement for Water and Territories (central zone), Chile
- Women’s Network, Sweden
- Women of Somos Cerro Blanco, Chile
- Women's Organization of Santa Úrsula
INDIVIDUALS:
- Ajal Yaakun Feminist Collective, Mexico
- Alehli Sánchez Paz, "Science for the people" and "Network of resistance and rebellion" Tlalpan, Mexico
- Alejandra Delgado, Ecuador
- Alejandra Ramirez Bravo, Ecuador
- Alejandra Rubí Villalobos Flores, ANIMO Jalisco, National Assembly for the Independence of Mexico
- Alejandra Yépez Jácome, Ecuador
- Alicia Ortega, Sycorax Collective, Quito, Ecuador
- Alisson Cadena (Collective From the Margin)Ecuador
- Alma Rosana Gutiérrez Ruiz, ANIMO Jalisco, National Assembly for the Independence of Mexico
- Ana Carolina Henao Vargas, Medellin
- Ana Carolina Herrera Galeano, Collective of Afro Las Malungas Women, Colombia
- Ana Cisneros, Ecuador
- Ana Elena Contreras, Collective Las del Aquelarre Feminista.
- Ana Isabel González Correa, Colombia
- Ana Sandoval, Mexico
- Andrea Reinoso (Collective From the Margin)Ecuador
- Angeles Almaguer, Ollin Collective
- Angie Vanessita (Illustrator),Ecuador
- Antonia Alemán Andrade, State of Mexico.
- Anyi Sierra Yanéz Montería, Colombia
- Araceli Mondragón Sánchez, human rights defender, CDMX, MEXICO
- Araceli Osorio Martínez - Human Rights Defender - Mexico City
- Beatriz Rivero Martínez, 12 Native Peoples of Tecamac, State of Mexico
- Beatriz Torres Beristain, Xalapa, Veracruz
- Bertha Díaz, Sycorax Collective, Quito, Ecuador
- Betty Ruth Lozano-Lerma, black woman, Cali, Colombia
- Betty Varela (Collective From the Margin)Ecuador
- Blanca López, Mexico
- Carla Casas Bolivia
- Carolina Bedoya Soto, Medellin
- Carmen Mora Villalpando, Alina Sánchez School of Community Health
- Carolina Morales, Colombia
- Catalina Duque Martínez, Medellin, Colombia
- Catherine Walsh, academic and activist, Ecuador
- Catla Santana Bustamante, journalist, Social Convergence, Chile
- Caterin Andrea David Benitez, Colombia
- Cecilia Jaramillo Jaramillo, Ecuador
- Cindy Borrero Velásquez, Medellin
- Clara Cruz Gómez, Collective Cereza Chiapas, Mexico.
- Claudia Muñiz, Communist Party, Mexico.
- Cristina Cucurí Miñarcaja, Provincial Re of Kichwa Women's Organizations of Chimborazo-Ecuador.
- Cristina Llanquileo Romero, Mapuche, Wallmapu, Chile.
- Cristina Tobón, Medellin, Colombia
- Daniela Alcívar, Sycorax Collective, Quito, Ecuador
- Daniela Zárate, Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Mexico, Ddeser Querétaro.
- Darly Johanna García, Association of environmentalist peasant women, ASMUCACD,
- Derly Constanza Cuetia Dagua, Nasa woman, Colombia
- Diana Aranguré, “Mujeres Tierra” and “Mexicali Resiste”, Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico
- Diana Cristina Rubio Rodríguez, ANIMO Jalisco, National Assembly for the Independence of Mexico
- Diana Patricia Álvarez Urrego, Colombia
- Dolores Patricia Castellanos Zavala, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas; Mexico.
- Durley Pérez Sandoval, La Estrella, Antioquia
- Edith Na savi Herrera Martínez, Guerrero Mountain, Tikoso Cultural Center, Mexico
- Elizabeth Contreras, Querétaro, Mexico.
- Elizabeth López Canelas Quechua - Bolivia
- Elsie Monge (Ecumenical Commission for Human Rights CEDHU, Ecuador
- Elvira Madrid Romero, Street Brigade in Support of Women, "Elisa Martínez", A.C. Mexico
- Epiphany Pérez Vázquez, Mexico.
- Erandi Villavicencio, Ecuador
- Eréndira Magaly Romo Pedroza, Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Mexico, Ddeser Jalisco
- Ericka Zamora Pardo, Solidarity Network Decade Against Impunity, Mexico City
- Erika Arteaga Cruz (mother of two wawas: Flavia and Lucas), Ecuador
- Estefanía Terán (From the Margin Collective)Ecuador
- Eulogia Tapia - Observatory for the Enforceability of Women's Rights - La Paz Bolivia
- Eva Tovar Hirashima, California, USA
- Evelyn López Simental, Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Mexico, Ddeser Jalisco
- Fabiola Raquel Antillón Castellanos. San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.
- Fernanda Navarro, Mexico
- Francisca Fernández Droguett Chile
- Frida María Villalobos Balderas, Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Mexico, Ddeser Querétaro.
- Gabriela Aguilar Martín, ANIMO Jalisco, National Assembly for the Independence of Mexico
- Gabriela Cárdenas Flores, Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Mexico, Ddeser Querétaro.
- Gabriela Paz Arroyo, Biobío, Chile
- Gabriela Ponce, Sycorax Collective, Quito, Ecuador
- Geraldina Guerra Garcés, Ecuador
- Gretel Galeano, Permanent Assembly for Human Rights Regional Catamarca, Argentina.
- Helânia Thomazine Porto, Coletivo Mulheres Insubmissas, Universidade do Estado da Bahia (UNEB), Brazil
- Janeth Guerrero, Ecuador
- Juana Calle Aymara Carangas Bolivia
- Julia Palacios Perea, Association of the control bodies of the comptrollers' offices, ASDECCOL, Colombia
- Juliana Centeno (From the Margin Collective)Ecuador
- Juliana Díaz Lozano, Virginia Bolten Free Chair, Argentina.
- Juliana Space, Paraguay
- Julieth Arias Mesa, Illegal Element, Colombia
- Katherine Garzón (Fight - Popular feminist organization)
- Karina Rivas Cardona, sitARTE, art with meaning, Colombia
- Karina Rivas are from Malunga, Afro Las Malungas Women's Collective, Colombia
- Karla Vega (Fight - Popular Feminist Organization), Ecuador
- Kattya Hernández, decul collective, Ecuador
- Katy Alvarez, Ecuador
- Kruskaya Hidalgom Ecuador
- Laura Leaño Martínez, Medellín, Colombia
- Laura Torres Martínez, Human Rights Defender, DF, Mexico, Erika Izbeth Martínez Romero, Human Rights Defender, C. D. M. X.
- Leslie de la Cruz Onofre, Movement for Truth and Justice of relatives of missing persons from the "Dirty War" of the 60s, 70s and 80s of the last century in the State of Guerrero, Mexico
- Laura Andrea Aristizábal Agudelo, Círculo Mujeres, University of Antioquia, Colombia
- Lina Maria Espinosa, Rights Coordinator
- Liz Torres (From the Margin Collective)Ecuador
- Lluvia Cervantes, Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Mexico, Ddeser Querétaro.
- Lucía Zavala Navarro, Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Mexico, Ddeser Jalisco, Mexico
- Luz Mery González Caicedo, Popular Women's Network and Ruta Pacifica, Colombia
- Maider Elortegui Uriarte, Mexico City
- Mama Mercedes Tunubalá, Misak woman, Mayor of Silvia Cauca, Colombia
- Mandeep Dhillon, Community Health Brigade 43, Veracruz, Mexico
- Marcela Fernández Camacho, Collective Cereza Chiapas, Mexico
- Marely Reyes Rodriguez, Collective Las del Aquelarre Feminista.
- María Antonia Orrego Martínez La Ceja, University of Antioquia, Medellín
- María auxiliadira Balladares, Sycorax Collective, Quito, Ecuador
- María Cristina Montejo Briceño, Xunaan Institute, Mexico
- María del Carmen López Almazán, CODEM, (Oaxaca)
- María Elena Santos Bartolo, 43rd Community Health Brigade, Guerrero, Mexico
- María Eugenia Ramírez Brisneda. Women for Peace, Colombia
- María Fabiola Sandoval Noreña, Rionegro, Medellín
- María José Machado Arevalo, Ecuador
- María Leticia Mesa Ortiz, Pajaras, Colombia
- María Rebeca Huitzil George, Puebla, Mexico
- María Victoria Serna Henao, Peasant Association of Antioquia ACA, Colombia
- Mariana Aguirre González, Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Mexico, Ddeser Jalisco, Mexico
- Maribel Núñez, Afro-Dominican Action, Dominican Republic.
- Maricarmen Ramírez Hernández | Mexico
- Mariela Muñoz, Argentina
- Marina Casales- Teacher- researcher. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - National University of Misiones (UNaM) - Argentine Republic.
- Marisa Isabel Altamirano Díaz, Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Mexico, Ddeser Jalisco
- Marisol Rodríguez, Ecuador
- Marlyn Maca Sánchez, Cali, Colombia
- Martha Desiree Barojas Ortuño Free Project: Education and Autonomy
- Martha Figueroa, Mujeres Libres COLEM, AC, Mexico.
- Matilde Ortuño Vilchis, Free Project: Education and Autonomy
- Mayleth Echegollen Guzman
- Melissa Ceja Covarrubias, Mexican Feminist Activist.
- Metzeri Ixchel Avila San Martín - Veracruzano Front for the Life and Rights of Women - Mexico
- Mireya Lara Saavedra. Provincial Coordination, Standing Committee on Human Rights of Working Women of Chimborazo.
- Mishel Báez, Ecuador
- Monica Pastrano, Ecuador
- Monserrat Candia Rocha, Green Ecologist Party, Chile
- Nancy Botero Areiza, University of Antioquia, Medellín
- Nashielly Cortez, Mexico
- Natalia Sierra, Ecuador
- Nayibe Chavarriaga Álvarez, Medellin, Colombia
- Nibid Osorio Correa, Medellin
- Nuriluz Hermosilla Osorio, archaeologist, Santiago de Chile
- N. Yumico Katiuzka, ANIMO Jalisco, National Assembly for the Independence of Mexico
- Olga Sofía Villa Salazar, Colombia
- Olivia Ortiz, ADAS, Mexico
- Olowailli Green Santamaria, female Guna Dule, senARTE, Medellín.
- Paola Maldonado Tobar, Geographer, Ecuador.
- Paola Mendoza Lomelí, ANIMO Jalisco, National Assembly for the Independence of Mexico
- Patricia Aracil Santos, Collective Cereza Chiapas, Mexico.
- Patricia Carrión (Ecumenical Commission for Human Rights CEDHU)Ecuador
- Patricia González Zuniga, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico North Border
- Patricia Ortega, Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Mexico, Ddeser Jalisco
- Perla Castillo-Solis, Mexico
- Perla Orquidea Fragoso Lugo, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
- Rilda Paco Bolivia
- Rodriguez Ojeda Lesly, Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Mexico, Ddeser Jalisco, Mexico
- Ruth Elena Zubiria Pérez Colombia Humana Riohacha La Guajira
- Ruth Ramírez Olivares, Ddeser Jalisco
- Sara Critina Tejada Chávez - Popayán
- Sara Kendall, Alina Sánchez School of Community Health, Vancouver, Canada
- Sashenka Fierro Resendiz, Colectivo Comunidad Circular AC, from Ensenada, BC
- Shaila Ruíz, Mexico
- Silvia Aristizabal López, Theologian - Missionary
- Silvia Pérez Echeverry, Plastic artist, Medellín
- Silvia Reséndiz Flores, Colectivo Mujeres Tierra AC de Mexicali
- Stephanie Altamirano (Fight - Popular Feminist Organization), Ecuador
- Tamara Soledad Cuello, Work Presentation and Research "There is Something That Deserves to Live on This Land. Los 194 y 1 | 2" Social Psychologist, General Rodríguez, Argentina.
- Tania Jocelyn Jiménez Mexía, Mexico
- Tania Patricia Origel Covarrubias, Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Mexico, Ddeser Jalisco
- Valentina Bermúdez Casas, Colombia
- Valeria Olvera Perrusquía, Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Mexico, Ddeser Querétaro.
- Veliz Zepeda, ANIMO Jalisco, National Assembly for the Independence of Mexico
- Veronica Marin Martínez, ANIMO Jalisco, National Assembly for the Independence of Mexico
- Verónica Rubí Beltrán Rizo, Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Mexico, Ddeser Jalisco
- Vilma Rocío Almendra, Nasa / Misak woman, Cauca
- Yanett Medrano Valdez, Puno, Peru
- Yannia Sofía Garzón Valencia, Caretaker of Life, Colombia
- Yendar Guadalupe Soto Flores, Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Mexico, Ddeser Querétaro.
- Yolanda Fernández Godínez, Los Zurdos Collective, State of Mexico
- Yolanda R. Arvizu, Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Mexico, Ddeser Querétaro.
- Yoli Astrid Chantre, Nasa Thinking Thinking Women's Movement, Colombia.
- Yuli Tatiana lan fuentes, San Antonio, Antioquia, Colombia
- Yvets Morales Medina, Ecuador