PHM LATAM southern subregion launches new gender justice circle

People's Health Movement Southern Region Julio Monsalvo holds the first meeting of the newly created Gender Circle. The launching of this regional circle will take place on Tuesday, December 10, International Human Rights Day at the closing of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence.

The Gender Circle is a transfeminist, intercultural and intersectional space, which arose from the need to provide a local response to the epidemic of gender violence and gender-based inequalities, with a special focus on Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay.

We met to build diagnoses and actions for gender equality, and also to support the PHM in incorporating the gender perspective with an intersectional approach in addressing violence that may arise within the movement and to ratify the PHM's commitment to its eradication.

In the South American region, the last 15 years have witnessed major cultural transformations that have led, in some countries, to equal marriage laws, gender identity laws, the comprehensive law to prevent, punish and eradicate violence against women, the law on the voluntary interruption of pregnancy, the law on sexual harassment, the law on mandatory gender training for state personnel, among others. Despite progress, the impact of gender-based violence (GBV) continues to be devastating.