About Me:
I am a psychologist and member of a youth-led organization based in Mexico that works to create a space for young people to express their ideas and find out solutions to address specific needs, especially regarding drug, HIV/AIDS and gender issues.
I am a psychologist and member of a youth-led organization based in Mexico that works to create a space for young people to express their ideas and find out solutions to address specific needs, especially regarding drug, HIV/AIDS and gender issues.
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Latin America and the Caribbean is the region with the greatest inequalities in terms of distribution of wealth. As young women, we represent the majority of the total population, but our gender condemns us to greater inequality. Our generation has progressed thanks to the struggles of other women that restored our dignity and our autonomy.
Latin America and the Caribbean is the region with the greatest inequalities in terms of distribution of wealth. As young women, we represent the majority of the total population, but our gender condemns us to greater inequality. Our generation has progressed thanks to the struggles of other women that restored our dignity and our autonomy.
Nevertheless, our generation faces a problem: globalization and advances in technology has not improved conditions for women. Day after day we fight to better our situation and exercise our rights.
Today
We continue fighting so that our families stop relegating us because we are women, or demanding us to do household chores or take on greater responsibility than our male relatives.
We fight against assault, harassment and sex-trafficking in our communities, towns and cities; so that women who live on the border do not become victims of homicides; so that we do not become the victims of armed conflicts.
We are mobilizing to access secular education, so that we cannot be expelled if we get pregnant. We fight for the right to choose and be respected for that; for the right to have a salary that is equal to that of our male co-workers. We fight for a work environment free of harassment. We fight for the possibility of having a job in which we are not treated as cheap labor just because we are young and female, like in the maquiladoras (U.S.-owned factories on the border).
We demand that our bodies are not seen as objects of consumption and that we are not pressured to fit gender stereotypes. We fight against anorexia, bulimia, depression, and discomfort with our bodies, diseases which starkly contrast with the illnesses that afflict women in the poorest and most marginalized areas of Latin America and the Caribbean, who have scarce food supplies.
We are looking for acknowledgement, not only as girls, mothers or daughters but as YOUNG WOMEN; heterosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals, transsexuals, Caucasian, African descendants, indigenous; from all our diverse backgrounds, from all of us female citizens… all of US.
We generate actions to stop mass media from reproducing the stereotypes and myths about us and all women.
We unite to be part of the reality we construct; for my voice and for our voices.
This March 8, we call on all people and governments that represent us to:
- Build equitable and supportive relationships to help us break the sexist, ageist, homophobic,racist and patriarchal power reproduced in the family, in schools, by mass media and in all communities.
- Recognize the diversity of the different young women that live in the region of Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Be acknowledged as strategic and political social actors, and not within a conglomerate of alien women and girls.
- Design and implement policies, actions and programs aimed to change the inequality and social injustice in our world.
- Establish agreements of respect and solidarity amongst all people, in which we relate to each other in an equitable and nonviolent way.
- Respect and uphold the exercise of women’s sexual and reproductive autonomy.
- Allocate resources to develop youth-friendly programs with information about scientific progresses and distribute information about women’s bodies and sexuality.
Because all of us are one, because our names are María, Sofía, Nilda, Yunuén, Marianela, Silvia, Claudia, Mariana, Lucía, Verónica, Paola, Cecilia, Silvana, Elena, Camila, Klara, Salomé, Lorena, and we live in Argentina, Brasil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, México, Paraguay, Perú, Uruguay, Venezuela…all in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Because autonomy is a right for all…
Organizations
Mexico
Espolea, A.C.
Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Francisco de Vitoria
Elige
Plataforma Nacional de Juventud, Proyecto 15.35
Praguay
Las Ramonas
REDLAC - Red Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Jóvenes por los Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos
EIJ - Espacio Iberoamericano de la Juventud
Colectivo Crack
Mesa de Autonomía del Cuerpo de la Concentración Feminista Prudencia Ayala
Organizations
Mexico
Espolea, A.C.
Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Francisco de Vitoria
Elige
Plataforma Nacional de Juventud, Proyecto 15.35
Praguay
Las Ramonas
REDLAC - Red Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Jóvenes por los Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos
EIJ - Espacio Iberoamericano de la Juventud
Colectivo Crack
Mesa de Autonomía del Cuerpo de la Concentración Feminista Prudencia Ayala
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This is wonderful! Very inspiring!
# Posted By Mahayana
| 3/10/10 12:01 AM
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Thank you very much Mahayana. Different organizations in the region of Latin America and the Caribbean are working hard to achive these objectives.
# Posted By CeciGR
| 3/11/10 12:48 AM
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