Ending Violence Against Women in Juarez, Mexico

by Global Fund for Women

Project Report | Aug 5, 2011
Action Fund Launched through GFW-MAC Initiative

By Amelia Wu | Director, Philanthropic Partnerships

As mentioned in our last update, the Global Fund for Women has created a $50,000 “Action Fund” as part of the GFW-MAC Ciudad Juarez Initiative. The purpose of this fund is to provide grants that are time-bound and awarded for specific activities intended to address violence against women’s rights activists in the context of Ciudad Juarez. These grants demonstrate the GFW-MAC Initiative’s responsiveness to the critical needs of women’s rights organizations to ensure the safety and collective action of their activists and the movements they represent.

This $50,000 Action Fund seeks to:

Promote consensus among women’s rights movements by providing support to women’s rights groups to attend international, regional or national conferences, meetings, forums and other gatherings (e.g. UN Conferences) to give visibility to the situation in Ciudad Juarez.
Foster movement-building by providing support to women’s rights organizations to organize meetings to strength the capacity of women’s movements to address the most pressing challenges facing women activists in the context of violence in Ciudad Juarez (e.g. IACHR meetings, Regional Feminist Forums, etc.)
Respond to human rights violations against activists in the context of Ciudad Juarez by providing emergency support to protect women’s safety and security

Through this fund, we recently awarded a grant to Justicia para Nuestras Hijas A.C. [Justice for Our Daughters, Civil Association]. This organization is comprised of family members of women who disappeared or were murdered in Cuidad Juárez and Chihuahua. The mission of the group is to locate women and girls who were disappeared or murdered in Chihuahua, and to promote access to justice for the survivors and their families. Justicia para Nuestras Hijas envisions transforming the state of Chihuahua into a place where women and girls enjoy their rights fully and are able to live safely, and where the right to the truth and to justice are a reality for victims of femicide and forced disappearance. The group will use its recent grant to support its internal efforts to protect the group's staff and beneficiaries. Specifically, this will include installing a security monitoring system in the office and protecting individuals and sensitive documentation.

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