welcome to cawn
The Central America Women’s Network (CAWN) is a London-based organisation that
supports, publicises and learns from the struggles of women in Central
America in the defence of their rights.
Our work is grounded in strong and active links with the women’s movement in Central America. Since our beginnings, we have worked with Central American women’s organisations that are active in defending their rights and increasing women’s voice and presence in decision-making across the region.
We have gained knowledge and experience through consultation processes and our joint work with partners in Central America. In addition, the impact of our advocacy work has been strengthened by collaboration with other organisations and networks in the United Kingdom and the European Union.
Some of our recent achievements include:
- Organising speaker tours in the United Kingdom of women from Central America.
- Promoting exchanges of experiences between women’s organisations in the United Kingdom and Central America on issues affecting women’s rights.
- Providing up to date information and analysis on the situation of women’s rights through our email list, briefings, newsletters, website and research reports.
- Successfully advancing a gender perspective in the work of the Ethical Trading Initiative.
- Supporting partners to challenge gender violence in Honduras and promote women’s economic literacy in Nicaragua.
“Poverty is an issue of women’s organisations but we must change the technical discussion of poverty into a political discourse. It is essential to empower women for them to come out of poverty.”
Mirta Kennedy, CEMH – Honduras
“Women need to be empowered with knowledge that will be tools in the search for alternative survival strategies in a globalised world.”
Mabel Aguirre, MEC – Nicaragua
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