past events
CAWN November seminar series on "Extreme Violence against Women: Femicides in Mexico and Central America" in Brussels and London were a huge success!
Thank you to all who participated! To read more about the events click here.
Following CAWN seminars the Morning Star released a feature article on femicide: Femicide: The Hidden Effect of the EU Agenda
Central America Report features CAWN seminars and femicide
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latest electronic bulletin
November E-Bulletin
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advocacy for Honduras
Today marks the fourth month since the military coup was staged in Honduras. We, the undersigned coalition of UK-based human rights, international development NGOs and solidarity organisations working in collaboration with organisations in Honduras which includes the Central America Women’s Network (CAWN), War on Want, and One World Action, publicly express serious concerns in relation to the situation in Honduras....
Click here to read about the many CAWN actions in response to the crisis in Honduras
CAWN supports the work of women’s organisations in Honduras in denouncing human rights violations and in particular those against women. For more information please click here.
Women are still in the forefront of the protest against the military coup of 28 June in Honduras. As the threat of a coup loomed, women’s organisations sprang into action, organising marches, mobilising rural and urban women, writing and distributing bulletins, and sending information and eyewitness images around the world by email, blogs and social networking media. They have come together as a network call ‘Feminist in Resistance’ to oppose and protest peacefully in response to the coup and the events that followed.
international news and responses for Honduras
latest publications
electronic bulletin November 2009
newslettwer Spring 2009
research report: The Responses of International Aid Agencies to Violence against Women in Central America -the case of HondurasNovember
2008
briefing paper:
Gender, labour rights and the ethical trading initiative (ETI)
December
2008
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 changethe technical discussion of poverty into a political discourse. It isessential 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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