We participated in multilateral spaces and worked in coordination with other civil society organizations, with the objective of continuing to position reproductive rights on the public agenda, share lessons learned, and contribute to the development of standards.
Within the framework of Mexico’s Tenth Periodic Report before the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee), we participated in the evaluation sessions and were members of the Alliance for the Rights of Women and Girls in all their Diversity. We submitted a shadow report on the state of reproductive rights in the country, and several of our recommendations were incorporated by the Committee.
We attended the 59th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. We participated in the parallel event “A Human Rights-Based Approach to Surrogacy”, organized by the Center for Reproductive Rights.
At the Open Government Partnership Summit, organized by Open Government Partnership in the city of Vitoria, Basque Country, Spain, we presented the Abortion in Data section of Aborto Origami as a tool for generating citizen-sourced information and using evidence to expand access to reproductive health services without stigma, highlighting the importance of citizen monitoring to strengthen transparency and improve reproductive health services.
We had the honor of being invited to a dialogue with the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, during his visit to Mexico, on current challenges related to gender equality and human rights.
We participated in the event “El Horizonte 2026 – Diálogo Estratégico con la Sociedad Civil” (The 2026 Horizon – A Strategic Dialogue with Civil Society), promoted by the NEXUS Initiative, a coalition of countries committed to defending and advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights. The central theme was the UN 80 Initiative and the reforms of these organizations in the face of budget cuts.
We held a meeting with the organization Just Futures Collaborative to explore future strategic partnerships aimed at positioning anti-punitivist approaches in the defense of reproductive rights, as well as to strengthen international coalitions that promote human rights and challenge criminalization as a response to social problems.
We attended the Mozilla Festival held in Barcelona, Spain. This year’s theme revolved around unlearning, and we had the opportunity to participate in sessions and workshops to rethink the ways in which technology is useful for social change.
With the Uehiro Institute at the University of Oxford, we worked on building innovative strategies to address and eradicate obstetric violence. We attended the dialogue “Obstetric Violence in the Context of Mexico”, in Oxford, United Kingdom, where we presented the findings of our report What do public data say? Radiograph of Obstetric Violence and Maternal Death. We also organized the seminar “Obstetric Violence: Interdisciplinary Dialogues Between Academia, Activism, and Care Professionals”, in which research was presented that deepens the analysis of this problem, and together with Colmena Consultory, we facilitated a workshop with sexual and reproductive health care staff to examine the challenges from institutional practice.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) published Advisory Opinion 31/2025, in which it recognized the right to care as an autonomous and fundamental right for life, human dignity, and the functioning of society. In 2024, together with other organizations in Mexico, we submitted an Amicus Curiae with technical considerations on the link between justice and care, with the aim of contributing to the issuance of this Opinion.
Within the framework of March 8, International Women’s Day, we collaborated in the mobilization with a protest contingent and, for the third consecutive year, in the event Women’s Embroidery. Women’s Gathering, organized with the Alliance against Inequality, Fight Inequality, Mujer Oportuna, and Accionar, where a dialogue was generated around abortion stigmatization and the importance of accompaniment.
On the anniversary of the decriminalization of abortion in Mexico City, we carried out an intervention near the Angel of Independence monument where the phrase “18 years of legal abortion” was painted, with the aim of commemorating the sustained commitment of the feminist movement to expand the right to reproductive autonomy and guarantee abortion access across the country. We also participated in an event organized by the local government, which represented an opportunity to bring together key figures in the Mexican and Latin American movement for legal and safe abortion.
At the forum Legislative Progress on Sexual and Reproductive Rights. Decriminalization of Abortion, organized by the Gender Equality Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, we presented the state of reproductive rights and once again submitted a legislative initiative to reform the Federal Criminal Code with the objective that abortion not be considered a crime.
With the Center for Justice, Democracy, and Equality, we organized the First Gathering for Legal and Safe Abortion in Yucatán, which brought together 40 members of collectives and organizations from Quintana Roo, Yucatán, and Campeche, and those responsible for the Safe Abortion program in Yucatán.
In San Juan del Río and Querétaro, we held meetings with reproductive rights activists, midwives, and law students. We presented information on Legal Stay 71/2023, whose ruling allows persons accompanied by GIRE to access abortion services during the first 12 weeks of gestation. We organized the First Gathering of the Querétaro Coordination for Safe Abortion (AQUAS) with the purpose of promoting the monitoring of access to abortion services in the state and strengthening accompaniment.
Within the framework of the plenary vote in the Congress of Guanajuato to decriminalize abortion during the first 12 weeks of gestation, we provided technical assistance to local organizations and collectives. Unfortunately, the legislators, after several rounds of voting, decided to maintain the criminalization of abortion in the criminal code.
At the Peninsular Gathering for Access to Abortion, which brought together 30 activists from Campeche, Quintana Roo, and Yucatán with the objective of strengthening regional coordination, we provided technical assistance in resource mobilization.
We assisted in organizing the Regional Gathering Waves of Change in the South-Southeast for Rights and Autonomy, held in Oaxaca, within the framework of the decriminalization of abortion in the states of Campeche, Chiapas, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Puebla, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz, and Yucatán.
Within the framework of the XVI Regional Conference on Women of Latin America and the Caribbean, together with Catholics for the Right to Decide Mexico, we organized the gathering Weaving Rights: Abortion and Care, which brought together 60 activists from various states of the country and the region to reflect on the challenges in terms of abortion access, as well as the need to recognize reproductive justice as a fundamental component of care society. We also participated in the Parliamentary Forum of Latin America and the Caribbean, convened by UN Women and the Congress of the Union, with the aim of sharing experiences among organizations in order to promote gender-focused actions to consolidate the care society.
With the Latin America and Caribbean Program of the Center for Reproductive Rights, we organized the Training Workshop for Legislators on Reproductive Rights in Valparaíso, Chile. In this exchange, legislators from the states of Oaxaca, Yucatán, Guerrero, and Baja California shared their experiences with lawmakers from the region on the processes of abortion decriminalization in those states, including the legal arguments and narrative changes that accompanied these advances.
We participated in the X Consonant Dialogues, held in Montevideo, Uruguay, convened by the Feminist Articulation Marcosur. The gathering brought together more than 30 networks and organizations from Latin America and the Caribbean to debate the feminist agenda, democracy, and financing for movements. As a result, a joint declaration was issued that warned about the decline in international funding for feminist movements, and called for strengthening mechanisms for support and regional coordination.
At the III Gathering of the They Are Girls, Not Mothers movement, held in Bogotá, Colombia, which brought together organizations that make up the coalition, the implementation of international decisions in cases of forced pregnancy in girls (Camila in Peru, Norma in Ecuador, and Fátima in Guatemala) was analyzed, and regional communication and advocacy strategies were defined.
At the Conference of the Latin American Consortium against Unsafe Abortion (CLACAI), held in Bogotá, Colombia, we reflected on obstetric violence as a specific manifestation of institutional violence that reveals structural failures in health systems and disproportionately affects adolescents, indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, or persons in contexts of greater vulnerability.