Communication for protection

Acuerpar (Embody) a historical moment. AcuerpaUAF Brazil 2025.

By Paola Palacios Ríos This August, UAF-LAC went to Brasilia to acuerpar (embody) and accompany the National Steering Committee of the Black Women's March for Reparations and Well-Being, a political moment of enormous historical significance. It was not a casual...

Methodologies and Insipration to Craft Feminist Counternarratives

In Latin America and the Caribbean, narratives and discourses linked to fundamentalism and right-wing and far-right ideology are becoming stronger. In this context, feminist movements are facing them and working tirelessly to counteract them, communicating from...

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Acuerpar (Embody) a historical moment. AcuerpaUAF Brazil 2025.

Acuerpar (Embody) a historical moment. AcuerpaUAF Brazil 2025.

By Paola Palacios Ríos This August, UAF-LAC went to Brasilia to acuerpar (embody) and accompany the National Steering Committee of the Black Women's March for Reparations and Well-Being, a political moment of enormous historical significance. It was not a casual...

Methodologies and Insipration to Craft Feminist Counternarratives

Methodologies and Insipration to Craft Feminist Counternarratives

In Latin America and the Caribbean, narratives and discourses linked to fundamentalism and right-wing and far-right ideology are becoming stronger. In this context, feminist movements are facing them and working tirelessly to counteract them, communicating from...

15 years of UAF-LAC

15 years of UAF-LAC

A journey of coming together and collective care together with the movements of Latin American and the Caribbean At UAF-LAC we are celebrating! We are celebrating 15 years of embodying, supporting, embracing and weaving ties of solidarity with women, trans and...

Dignity + Pride: Resistance of the LBTQINB+ movement in Latin America

Dignity + Pride: Resistance of the LBTQINB+ movement in Latin America

This June 28th, International LGBTQINB+ [1]Pride Day, we consider it important t point out policies and actions that are jeopardizing their rights in Latin America and the Caribbean. The strength acquired in recent years by various conservative forces that support...

Global Gathering, a Space for the Defense of our Digital Bodies

Global Gathering, a Space for the Defense of our Digital Bodies

Having conversations and continuing to learn about the defense of digital rights is something we have been doing as UAF-LAC for some time now. During September 2024, we traveled to Portugal to participate in the Global Gathering, a global event that brings together...

Transformation Stories

Dominican Republic: Teatro Maleducadas

In the Dominican Republic, betting on theater is no simple task. You have to be willing to do so in a context that prioritizes other forms of expression. But those who...

Brazil – Black women Ayomidê Yalodê and comprehensive care and protection practices

The Black population in Brazil faces daily oppression, exclusion, and even systematic genocide in their communities, which is intensified by the lack of public...

Crossroads

Taking stock in order to provide support and accompany processes throughout the region is no easy task. To achieve this, political will and flexible resources or...

Uruguay in TRANSformation: for the rights of transgender people

Uruguay was the first country in Latin America to regulate a Comprehensive Gender Identity Law in 2009. During those years, those who wanted to change their name had to...

Courage and resilience: the story of peasant women in Paraguay

.The Commission for Victims of the Curuguaty Massacre was created as an initiative to demand justice and reparations for the events that took place in the town of...

TRANSforming realities, the new Gender Identity Law in Chile

These far-reaching processes, which require a long-term struggle, involve commitment and efforts that cannot be abandoned; for example, there must be many supporters...

Gender Identity Law in Bolivia

FAU-AL supported Red Trébol in the approval of the Gender Identity Law in Bolivia. Thanks to the hard work and tireless struggle of trans organizations and activists in...

Talking with the Parces

Talking with the Parces.. FAU-AL interview with the organization P.A.R.C.E.S.. On January 20, 2016, the Bogotá Metropolitan Police arrived at Plaza de la Mariposa, in...