We seek to generate a reflective and critical dialogue among feminists from Latin America and the Caribbean who work in advocacy processes in favor of the recognition of abortion rights. We want to build a collective process to learn about narratives and discourse strategies. Additionally, we need  to reflect on how our narratives, in many cases can contribute to reinforce the stigma of abortion.

We participate with other networks that promote the regional initiative Mira Que te Miro (MQTM). This is a social monitoring process within the framework of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development. MQTM follows up the commitments on sexual and reproductive rights assumed in the Consensus, in terms of legislation throughout Latin America and the Caribbean on 11 different topics related to sexual justice, reproductive justice and health.

The objectives of this social monitoring process are the following: 

1. Strengthen accountability through monitoring the fulfillment with the commitments made by governments in the Montevideo Consensus directly related to sexual and reproductive health and rights.
2. Strengthen transparency and access to information, with its function as a repository of data (laws, policies, programs, protocols) related to SRH.
3. Consolidate civil society’s capacities for advocacy in favor of the implementation of the Montevideo Consensus. This is facilitated by the increase of knowledge on how to access information and the capability to know the normative frameworks and the commitments assumed by governments in the field of SRH.
4. Strengthen the spaces for dialogue between civil organizations and the governments to further improve the implementation of the Consensus with a purposeful and collaborative framework 

The networks that make up this regional initiative are: International Planned Parenthood Federation – Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF WHR), Red por la Salud de las Mujeres Latinoamericanas y del Caribe (RSMLAC), Red Latinoamericana de Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir, Plan International, International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA), Comité de América Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer (CLADEM), International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) and Vecinas Feministas.

We want to build an intra-movement dialogue considering each of our belongings and connections with local movements: Feminist, LGBTIQ+, Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Health, Abortion, Sexology, Children’s Rights and Disability. We recognize that there are already many critical analyses and texts about gender agendas:  its strategies, contents, members and even funders, however, these have not necessarily been translated into concrete tools that activists can use to articulate between each other and to protect the rights that all these movements have already achieved.

The organizations and collectives that make up Injusta Justicia believe it is necessary to broaden up the debate on violations of sexual and reproductive rights. We consider it is essential to generate spaces to analyze, debate and define a comprehensive strategy that does not only rely on criminalization as a response to combat violations of sexual and reproductive rights. That is why the campaign Injusta Justicia seeks to raise reflection on the limits of criminal law, punitivism and protectionism as strategies for the defense of sexual and reproductive rights, mainly of adolescents. Injusta Justicia seeks to focus attention on the unintended consequences of the unrestricted application of criminal law and the punitive strategy to protect sexual and reproductive rights; allowing us to analyze the impacts that these have on the life and autonomy of adolescents.

In Injusta Justicia we do not have -nor pretend to have- the answers, we seek to initiate the debate we need in order to propose transformative strategies.  We also ask ourselves, is it possible to rethink other ways of seeking justice, accompaniment and reparation to survivors? Injusta Justicia invites us to have these dialogues, to think of alternatives to the punitive and penal system and to build other ways of achieving justice.

Injusta Justicia  coordinates RESURJ, Vecinas Feministas and Balance; and promotes together with Aireana, BECA, Casa Rara, Intersecta, Las Ramonas, REDI, Surkuna and Tik Na’Oj, feminist organizations and collectives around the region.

See website: www.injustajusticia.org

For us, political advocacy at local, regional and global levels is an opportunity to occupy political spaces with feminists perspectives. We seek to ensure that the sexual and reproductive justice view in Latin America and the Caribbean is present at local, regional and global levels. We believe in articulation, dialogue and consensus; that is why advocacy is an opportunity to strengthen alliances between social movements. This will allow us to reach consensus on the relationship between body-territory within the pursuit for justice in the region.

At the local level, each Vecina articulates with local organizations and activists for political advocacy according to the specific situation each country has and on issues related to the search for sexual and reproductive justice. 

At the regional and global level, we participate in different spaces, the main ones being:

• Organization of American States (OAS): We participate in the General Assembly – the supreme body of the Organization of American States, where delegations from all states are present. In this space we are part of the civil society coalitions. 
• Commission on the Status of Women (CSW): The main intergovernmental forum for the promotion of international policy for gender equality. 
• International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD): Space that discusses issues related to poverty, migration, sexual health, reproductive health and among others.
• High Level Political Forum (HLPF): Space for exchange to follow up on the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals.
• Regional Conference on Population and Development (CRPD): The most important conference to follow up on issues related to population and development, with the Montevideo Consensus being the most important document on subject. Additionally we participate in executive board meetings that are held.
• Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: ECLAC’s body that analyzes the regional situation of women and their rights. This conference also presents recommendations for public policies related to gender equality and follow-up on regional and international agreements.
• Forum of the Countries of Latin American and Caribbean on Sustainable Development: This is the regional mechanism to the follow-up of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals.
• ILGA Global Conference: It is the largest gathering of LGBTIQ+ activists in the world where experiences, advances, strategies and good practices for the fulfillment and guarantee of the human rights of LGBTIQ+ people are shared.
• Global Feminist LBQ Women*’s Conference: Held for the first time in 2019,  it seeks to be a space for activists and advocates to share strategies, mobilize resources and lead the building of a global LBQ movement with the capacity to influence the global human rights agenda.