This paper reminds us that gender focused statistics and qualitative data for development must recognise the cultural particularities of social relations between men and women, while indigenous women's rights and ...more

"In Guatemala, alliances among women's civil society organisations have been key for the feminist movement because there are no transparent mechanisms for dialogue or negotiation with the state. This document ...more

For women to be fully included in democratic processes in Guatemala their human rights, which have been systematically violated for a very long time, have to be fully integrated into ...more

Are indigenous women meaningfully participating in local governance processes in Latin America? This study aims to mainstream lessons learnt about indigenous women's participation in governance processes and in local governments, ...more

The Gender Studies programme of the Ecuador headquarters of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) has created an online resource of published and unpublished documents, interviews, testimonies, biographies ...more