What we do
Our Agenda
Desired motherhood
We believe in motherhood as a choice and not as an unavoidable destiny for women and people with capacity to get pregnant This implies guaranteeing the right to legal, safe and free abortion, as well as more humane pregnancy and childbirth conditions.
Sexual freedoms
We work towards sexualities that are not linked to reproduction, that occur as consensual, pleasurable, and joyful acts, without stigmas or guilt. This includes comprehensive sexuality education and access to contraceptive methods and the prevention of unwanted pregnancies.
Sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression
We want people free to be and to love, without determinism or discrimination, recognizing the richness of living in plural and diverse societies.
Life free from violence
We work to create dynamics and relationships that stop and prevent the violence that is exercised against women's bodies for gender reasons in many contexts.
The secular State and religious pluralism
We promote secularism as a basic condition of the State to guarantee the exercise of rights, as well as to advance in the democratic coexistence of the diversity of religions and beliefs, the autonomy of individuals, and the exercise of freedom of thought and conscience.
Our Strategies
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We make visible and elevate the voices
of believers who promote freedom of conscience and the recognition of the moral capacity to make ethical decisions about our lives.
- Research and construction of narratives
- Social communication
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We promote the implementation of public policies
and the modification of regulatory frameworks because we are convinced that the secular State must guarantee all human rights.
- Documentation
- Political relations
- Political communication
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We build community
by betting on the transformative power of social organization and solidarity among peers, where people become agents of change through collective power.
- Group organization and collective action (common goals and concerns, building of networks and alliances)
- Awareness-raising and training of people who can influence their communities
- Support and accompaniment
Catholics for the Right to Decide
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people reached with our informative materials
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people reached through educational, informational, and awareness-raising activities on the various issues on our agenda, including activists, local leaders, and youth.
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followers on social media
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health professionals trained in sexual and reproductive rights, and conscientious objection
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public officials and decision-makers who have been made aware of our arguments or trained in the various issues on our agenda
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women who were provided with information or support to access a legal and safe abortion
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press releases in national and international media that make our catholic and feminist arguments more visible
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organizations and collectives with whom we have promoted joint actions
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leaders in the field of religion and theology with whom we collaborate
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produced episodes of our series Catolicadas and +9million reproductions on our social media
*Representative data from 2010 to 2022.
Our Achievements
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Networks and Alliances
We are part of:
Group of organizations integrated by Catholics committed to the search for social justice and the change of cultural and religious patterns present in our society. From this network, we carry out joint actions to achieve a greater impact and incidence in the region in favor of the defense of women’s human rights.
https://redcatolicas.org
Since 2002, Catholics for the Right to Decide, Gender Equity: Citizenship, Work and Family (Equidad de Género: Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia, Equidad), Information Group for Chosen Reproduction (Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida, GIRE), Ipas México, and Population Council, México make up the National Alliance for the Right to Decide (ANDAR), with the goal of strengthening women’s sexual and reproductive rights in Mexico, as well as improving conditions for access to safe and legal abortions. We collaborate with leading organizations in the field of sexual and reproductive rights, each from a different perspective.
https://andar.org.mx
Mira que te Miro is a regional initiative for social monitoring of the commitments adopted in the Montevideo Consensus by the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, held in 2013 in Uruguay. It contributes to strengthen accountability, transparency, and access to information on policies, programs, and services that account for the materialization of the commitments made by the States in this new agenda that represents for the region the projection of the commitments made in the Program of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo in 1994 and its subsequent review processes.
It monitors, analyzes, and compares legislation; policies and strategies; programs and national and regional statistical information about the following components included in the Montevideo Consensus: human rights and secularism, comprehensive sexuality education, universal access to sexual and reproductive health, and accountability.
https://www.miraquetemiro.org
National network formed by 43 organizations from different states that is responsible for monitoring, systematizing information, and documenting cases of femicide to facilitate the design of laws and public policies on human rights with a gender perspective. The areas of work include legal support to family members of femicide victims, documentation of cases of femicide in different states of the country, advocacy for the effective implementation of the General Law on Women’s Access to a Life Free of Violence, visibility of cases of femicide and generation of public opinion in favor of women’s right to a life free of violence.
https://www.observatoriofeminicidiomexico.org/quienes-somos
Association in which 86 human rights organizations from all over Mexico converge to elaborate strategies that guarantee the effectiveness in the defense and promotion of human rights for all individuals. Its goal is to achieve an integral defense of human rights; they understand human rights from a broad and inclusive perspective.
https://redtdt.org.mx
Alliance integrated by civil society organizations, academics, researchers, and personalities who have stood out in the defense of the Secularism of the State, who promoted the reform of Article 40 that elevated secularism to constitutional rank.
https://www.facebook.com/PorUnaRepublicaLaica/about
This feminist movement was created in 2012 by 21 organizations to push forward public policies for gender equality in Mexico City. Through dialogue with decision-makers over the last few years, this organism has presented an agenda on equality with proposals on gender institutionalization, budgets for equality, access to justice for women, sexual rights and reproductive rights, construction of citizenship and political rights for women, as well as a culture of equality in the city aimed at the local executive and legislative sectors.
https://twitter.com/cdfeminista
https://www.facebook.com/CiudadFeminista/?ref=page_internal
The Gender and COVID-19 Observatory in Mexico is, on the one hand, an exercise of social control so that the actions that the State implements in order to face the pandemic comply with human rights obligations, from a gender and intersectionality perspective and, on the other hand, an initiative that shows the contributions of civil society for the creation of futures, where equality and justice are in the framework of action in the new normal.
https://genero-covid19.gire.org.mx
The Observatory of the Universality of Rights (OURs) is a collaborative project that seeks to monitor, analyze, share information and generate joint advocacy actions to respond to efforts and movements that use supposed arguments related to religion, culture, and tradition to obstruct and deny human rights. The project brings together a diversity of regions and topics to bring social justice forward.
https://www.oursplatform.org
CLACAI is a network of activists, researchers, health care providers, and professionals that contributes to the reduction of unsafe abortion in Latin America. It promotes access to information, and to modern and safe technologies within the framework of full respect for sexual and reproductive rights, from a gender and equity perspective.
https://clacai.org
We collaborate with:
Our Community
Ambassadors for Secularism
Ambassadors for Secularism is a network created by Catholics for the Right to Decide to defend the secular State through broad collaboration and to publicly position ourselves in the face of violations of this fundamental principle. This network includes human rights activists, public officials, academics and influencers, content creators, and digital activists, all conscious and aware in regards to this issue.
Spiritual Support Group
It is an ecumenical theological team composed of people from different religious denominations that provide spiritual accompaniment to women who are facing the decision to end their pregnancy or who have done it, and, more recently, to people from the LGBTIQA+ community, who have been discriminated against. Our theological work is linked to some aspects of spiritual discernment, such as reflections on the termination of a pregnancy and faith-based mediation.
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