We are a Latin American, feminist organization committed to human rights research and advocacy, working to accompany and empower institutions that promote and protect the rights of historically marginalized communities.

Our Vision

We want and strive for a more equal and equitable world where the voices of historically marginalized communities are respected, and where power, resources, and decision-making are balanced.

We guide and support processes of knowledge building, planning, and institutional strengthening for organizations that fight for greater equality and more rights.

We understand inequalities from a perspective that acknowledges and addresses privileges, differences, and disadvantages. That’s why we aim to support communities and the organizations working alongside them with deep empathy. We provide them with tools to become the protagonists of their own changes, understanding their current situation, where they want to go, valuing their knowledge, recognizing their contexts, and listening to their voices.

We hold a complex and sensitive view of equality, and all our actions are guided by a human rights, gender, and decolonial approach.

Our Values

We’re a team that deeply believes in the organization’s purpose and shares its values and principles.

Our values are a daily practice, ingrained in our work’s DNA, and we put them into action both inside and outside our organization.

How We Support You

Research

We transform complex questions into concrete solutions through applied, participatory, and innovative research. This generates knowledge to influence public policies and social debates from a feminist perspective that critically examines established power models.

We believe data is power when analyzed with an ethical and transformative approach. We offer data production and analysis services with a comprehensive perspective that prioritizes human rights, gender equity, and social justice.

We support organizations in strengthening their institutional capacities by integrating feminist, decolonial, and human rights approaches. We use innovative methodologies such as, among others, systemic constellations.

We create spaces for reflection, awareness, and training in data governance, human rights, feminism, and philanthropic decolonialism, all adapted to the needs of each project.

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Projects

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We support and strengthen the work of organizations that promote and protect the rights of women, children and adolescents, people in situations of human mobility, LGBTQI+ populations, indigenous peoples, and Afro-descendant communities.

We develop our projects using a feminist, decolonial, and intersectional approach, grounded in empathy, active participation, and the recognition of local contexts and diverse knowledge.

CARIBE AFIRMATIVO

An Information System for Migrant LGBTIQ+ Rights

In Latin America and the Caribbean, every piece of data has the power to protect. That’s why, together with Caribe Afirmativo, we aimed to go beyond mere diagnosis. We developed a concrete, evidence-based roadmap to build an information system that can rigorously and sensitively characterize the human rights situation of LGBTIQ+ individuals in situations of mobility.

Every technical specification we created carried an ethical question: How do we transform information into protection, and knowledge into action? This work marks a crucial step to ensure that the online processing of data is efficient and champions diversity and justice.

Ayuda en acción

Participatory Assessment in El Salvador to Protect the Rights of Children and Adolescents in Human Mobility

What happens to children and adolescents when their lives are shaped by displacement, violence, and resistance?

In collaboration with Ayuda en Acción, we conducted a participatory situational assessment of the human rights of children and adolescents. This analysis included factors such as gender-based violence (GBV), discrimination, vulnerability, and the resilience of girls and adolescents in contexts of human mobility in the Department of La Unión, El Salvador.

This study incorporates a methodology that includes participatory tools and a perception survey targeting children, adolescents, and their families. The goal is to obtain precise and contextualized information that can guide more effective protection strategies, co-created with the migrant children in these localities.

Protecting the rights of children and adolescents in situations of mobility has been a central part of our projects, and this assessment represents a key opportunity to deepen that commitment based on evidence.

Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI)

Financing with a Gender and Decolonial Approach

Have you ever considered the challenges faced by organizations of Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and local community women in the Global South when seeking international funding to carry out their mission in their communities?

In many regions of the Global South, Indigenous and Afro-descendant women’s organizations sustain entire communities. However, accessing funding for their work remains an uphill battle.

With RRI, we embarked on an in-depth and transnational research project to map the risks and obstacles these organizations face in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Our approach combined data with active listening, not only to understand what prevents access to funds, but also why it happens and how to change it. Recognizing these barriers is the first step toward building more equitable, territorial, and transformative funding.

Full report here.

Fos Feminista

The Cost of Accessing Resources

Why is it so “costly” for many feminist movements and organizations in Latin America to access resources to carry out their work?

In Latin America, historical exclusion and legal, economic, and social barriers continue to limit the access of women, girls, and gender-diverse individuals—especially Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and rural populations—to their sexual and reproductive rights. These obstacles are exacerbated by stigmatizing narratives, threats to integrity, and restrictive regulations that hinder funding for those on the front lines defending these rights.

In this context, we’ve partnered with Fòs Feminista to develop strategies for strengthening the capacities of Latin American movements and organizations to access more and better resources.

Our task is to produce evidence on the use of fiscal agents, which allows resources to reach organizations and populations that have historically been excluded or live in precarious conditions. We want to understand, alongside these organizations themselves, why this fiscal agent model is used, its benefits, challenges, and potential.

AWID

Where Is the Money for Feminist Organizing?

Imagine a global map where thousands of feminist voices beat simultaneously. Yet, one question resonates loudly: Where is the money to sustain these struggles?

AWID conducted a worldwide survey to quantify what many already knew: that organizations of women, girls, trans, intersex, and gender-diverse people continue to face barriers in funding their causes. The result wasn’t just a report; it was a powerful tool to advocate, open doors, and activate real opportunities for change. Because making the lack of resources visible is also a form of achieving justice.

From Vozes, we supported this global feminist organization by analyzing data and generating institutional strengthening processes to continue fighting for more and better resources.

CAF - Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean

Development Projects with a Gender Perspective

In Latin America and the Caribbean, every action is important for building a more just and inclusive society. That’s why, in collaboration with CAF, we’re working to ensure that 50% of sovereign operations in the region include a gender perspective by 2025.

Through technical support to CAF’s Gender Directorate, we’ll help implement their 2025 Work Plan. This will ensure that a gender perspective is incorporated into the initial stages (origination) and evaluation of the credit projects they finance, as well as in key activities such as generating knowledge products and cooperating with states.

This work marks a crucial step to ensure that sustainable development champions diversity and justice, supporting the protection of the rights of women and girls in the region.

This is a space where we amplify our voices and those of others to contribute to the discussion on various human rights-related topics.

About us

We believe in a world with greater equality and opportunities for communities that have historically been marginalized.