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We systematize the grants awarded in diverse issue areas as a way to generate knowledge and strengthen capabilities. We invite you to explore the publications, reports and press releases that are the result of this work.
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Publications
Manifesto for Communications that Accompany
We know that digital environments are constantly changing, and that there are platforms where our dreams and commitments do not fit. That is why we question our digital presences and choose to inhabit them as a practice that strengthens our voices and relationships....
Towards the construction of a Feminist Digital Infrastructure
In the midst of a reality where life increasingly takes place between technologies and digital environments, in UAF-LAC we have facilitated reflections on the emotional and physical impacts of the use of technology on the lives of activists and human rights defenders....
Executive Summary: Extractivism, the pandemic, and other possible worlds
. This research, nurtured by prior reflections and learnings on the various extractivist projects in the region and lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic, highlights some of the differential impacts of extractivism on women, such as deepening all forms of violence...
Summary: How can we ground ourselves in care and dance our revolution?
. This research was created with a network of accompaniment and support that was formed with the Advisory Group and the Urgent Action Sister Funds, which allowed us to deepen the reflections around care and protection, recognizing in this path the diverse perspectives...
Tips for Emotional Care
In times of crisis, it is important to PAUSE. To feel and connect to what is happening within and around ourselves. This way, we can support and strengthen each other.Taking a pause is the first step to taking care of ourselves. We will be able to deal with what is...
Taking CARE of our digital body
. In these times, when acting collectively can save lives, we want to share some reflections and tips as a virtual team with those defenders, activists and organizations that have the possibility of continuing to work from home for the defense of women's rights and...
Annual Reports
Weaving hope, resisting through care. Annual Report 2024
The year 2024 was particularly significant for the Urgent Action Fund for Latin America and the Caribbean (UAF-LAC). We celebrated fifteen years of walking alongside those who uphold life, dignity, and hope in this deeply unequal region, where polycrisis are...
“Acuerpando los movimientos” Embodying the movements Annual Report 2023
We completed another year of work and political commitment with feminist movements in Latin America and the Caribbean. A year that allowed us to reflect on our political commitments as a Feminist Fund that centers collective care in its strategies and the creation of...
A Year to Meet Each Other Again. Annual Report 2022.
We extend our heartfelt gratitude as we invite you to explore our 2022 Annual Report. We wish to share with you the hope and inspiration driving our efforts to construct alternative worlds in Latin America and the Caribbean, which are grounded in our collaborative...
Cultivating Care To Find Balance in Life. Annual Report 2021.
This year brought with it deep reflections that rooted us in our political commitment to center care through a transformative, contextualized feminist approach – one that recognizes that there are no absolutes, but rather paths built by many experiences throughout...
Embrace Uncertainty, Cultivate Balance. Annual Report 2020.
For UAF-LAC, 2020 was a year full of challenges and lessons. We were called to expand our reflections on productivity, work balance, and care for ourselves and others, and to keep in mind the importance of taking breaks, listening to our bodies, and embracing the...
10 years celebrating life. Annual Report 2019.
Ten Years of Caring and Sustaining Feminist movement rooted in Latin America. We celebrated our 10th anniversary in 2019; 10 years of supporting the sustainability of women's and feminist movements, as the only Fund in the region with a funding model that provides...
Press Releases
Statement in solidarity with the palestinian people
. From the Urgent Action Fund for Latin America and the Caribbean, we condemn the genocide against the Palestinian people. We are outraged by the violence against the civilian population, which has escalated since October 7, 2023, and to date has left more than 9,061...
International Civil Society Organisations in Alert for Assassinated Social Leaders and the Worsening Humanitarian Crisis in Colombia
. As an International Organisation we express our profound concern regarding the severe deterioration of the armed conflict in Colombia, which has already in 2020, taken the lives of 23 people, including four women and two ex-combatants in the process of...
To the community of activists, advocates, allies, and donors who have accompanied us along our path, particularly at this time of grief
We want to express our deep-felt gratitude for your expressions of affection and solidarity around the passing of our dear Executive Director, Tatiana Cordero Velásquez, last April 13th. At this time, your support warms our hearts and gives us the strength to take on...
We inform you of the death of our dear sister and colleague Tatiana Cordero Velázquez
. It is with a heavy heart that we inform you of the death of our dear sister and colleague Tatiana Cordero Velázquez, Executive Director of the Urgent Action Fund for Latin America and the Caribbean UAF-LAC. We are honored to have shared our paths with her. Her...
Public Statement Facing 2020 Health and social Crisis
. Urgent Action sisters Funds as feminist rapid response grant makers, operate under constant crises and over decades have built the infrastructure and capacity, nurtured by the trust of movements, to respond together in an urgent, secure and strategic manner to...
Urgent Action Funds Responce to social and health crisis
. Viruses don’t discriminate, but systems and policies do. Neoliberalism and unchecked corporate power have led to extreme wealth inequality. Rising authoritarianism, nationalism, militarization, and extremisms have intensified attacks on human rights, democracy, and...
Documents of Interest
Grantmaking modalities
. We are a regional feminist fund for Latin American and the Caribbean. We provide agile and flexible grants in response to risks and opportunities, supporting resistances, demands and proposals of women, trans and no-binary human rights defenders working to transform...
Feminist voices and experiences opening spaces for civil society
. During the first week of July in Naivasha, Kenya, the three Urgent Action Funds (Urgent Action Fund; UAF-‐Africa, and UAF-‐LA) carried out the meeting entitled “Closing Civil Society: feminist organizing, resistance and resilience”, in order to discuss with over...
A Dialogue between Women Human Rights Defenders and the United Nations
A Dialogue between the International Coalition of Women Human Rights Defenders and the United Nations Special Procedures within the Framework of its Annual Convening Geneva, June 9, 2016 . This year, the UAF-LA participated, together with UAF-United States, as part of...