{"id":4774,"date":"2022-02-08T17:56:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T22:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fosfeminista.org\/news-and-stories\/a-new-horizon-for-womens-rights-in-honduras\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T18:07:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:07:55","slug":"a-new-horizon-for-womens-rights-in-honduras","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/fosfeminista.org\/es\/news-and-stories\/a-new-horizon-for-womens-rights-in-honduras\/","title":{"rendered":"Un nuevo horizonte para los derechos de las mujeres en Honduras"},"template":"","class_list":["post-4774","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_type-stories","article_format-stories-of-change","issue_tax-legal-abortion","issue_legacy-abortion","location-honduras"],"acf":{"details":{"":null,"article_type":21,"article_format":150,"authors":"","add_button":false,"button_type":"link","button":"","download":"","download_button_text":"","featured_image":3709},"sidebar":{"issues":{"title":"Cuestiones prioritarias","issues":[34]},"locations":{"title":"Ubicaci\u00f3n","locations":[157]},"partners":{"title":"Socios","partners":""}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_hero_article","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_hero_article":{"":null,"anchor_id":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<span data-contrast=\"auto\">El mes pasado, Honduras inaugur\u00f3 a Xiomara Castro como la primera mujer presidenta en la historia del pa\u00eds. La presidenta Castro, que se identifica como feminista, gan\u00f3 las elecciones con un programa que incluye el compromiso de liberalizar la estricta prohibici\u00f3n del aborto en Honduras. Su victoria, a pesar de los ataques sucios lanzados en las redes sociales por grupos antiabortistas que alimentaron la violencia pol\u00edtica contra las mujeres, se debi\u00f3 en parte a la incansable organizaci\u00f3n de las activistas feministas de todo el pa\u00eds.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">Alejandra Miranda es una de las activistas feministas que impulsan este movimiento. Miranda es originaria de la provincia de Atl\u00e1ntida, donde los miembros de su comunidad, el pueblo gar\u00edfuna, llevan d\u00e9cadas resistiendo los violentos intentos de las autoridades hondure\u00f1as de privarlos de sus tierras costeras. Madre de dos hijos, estudi\u00f3 ecoturismo en la universidad, aunque actualmente est\u00e1 desempleada. Los hondure\u00f1os negros como Alejandra sufren discriminaci\u00f3n en el mercado laboral del pa\u00eds. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Desde la preparatoria, ha dedicado gran parte de su tiempo a educar a las mujeres sobre sus derechos y a organizar movimientos en defensa de los derechos de las mujeres y del pueblo gar\u00edfuna. <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\"<\/span><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Siempre he tenido el impulso de hacer algo por mi gente.<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201ddice Alejandra sobre su activismo.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">Alejandra's commitment to the rights of the women eventually led her to join a movement of young activists mobilizing for sexual and reproductive rights in her country. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/somosmuchas.hn\/\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Somos Muchas<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">socio de F\u00f2s Feminista,<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">es una organizaci\u00f3n en crecimiento con representantes en todo Honduras que ha puesto la importancia de despenalizar el aborto en el centro del debate p\u00fablico. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">El deseo de desafiar el estigma asociado al aborto motiva el activismo de Alejandra con <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Somos Muchas<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. <\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cMe dedico a visitar peque\u00f1as comunidades donde las mujeres no tienen acceso a informaci\u00f3n ni servicios\u201d, explica. \u201cHablamos con ellas sobre la importancia de los m\u00e9todos anticonceptivos y el derecho a decidir sobre nuestro propio cuerpo. En esas comunidades, la sexualidad es un tema tab\u00fa y lo que ocurre es que las ni\u00f1as y las j\u00f3venes tienen embarazos no deseados sin poder hacer nada al respecto\u201d.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">Honduras es uno de los pocos pa\u00edses del mundo que proh\u00edbe estrictamente el aborto, incluso cuando el embarazo pone en peligro la vida, no es viable o es resultado de una violaci\u00f3n o incesto, tres circunstancias que justifican legalmente el aborto en la mayor\u00eda de los dem\u00e1s pa\u00edses. Honduras tambi\u00e9n proh\u00edbe las p\u00edldoras anticonceptivas de emergencia.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">Pero las organizaciones feministas de Honduras han comenzado a inspirar esperanza para un nuevo futuro. <\/span>Somos Muchas por la vida y la libertad de las mujeres<span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0surgi\u00f3 en 2015 como un movimiento que buscaba cambiar el c\u00f3digo penal del pa\u00eds para despenalizar el aborto en tres excepciones.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cNo descansaremos hasta que todos los adolescentes reciban una educaci\u00f3n sexual integral, hasta que todas las mujeres tengan acceso a la p\u00edldora anticonceptiva de emergencia, hasta que ninguna ni\u00f1a se vea obligada a ser madre. So\u00f1amos con un Honduras en el que ser madre sea una opci\u00f3n y no una imposici\u00f3n\u201d, afirma Alejandra sobre sus aspiraciones para el futuro.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">Somos Muchas ha logrado organizar encuentros de m\u00e1s de 400 feministas de todos los rincones del pa\u00eds. No tienen un liderazgo vertical; las decisiones importantes se toman en asamblea. No hay una sola vocera, sino que decenas de integrantes act\u00faan como tales. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">A pesar de soportar ataques feroces por parte de grupos contrarios a los derechos humanos, Somos Muchas ha salido a\u00fan m\u00e1s fortalecida. De cara al gobierno de Castro, el grupo activista feminista seguir\u00e1 organiz\u00e1ndose para cambiar las leyes y ayudar a los hondure\u00f1os de a pie a comprender la importancia del derecho a un aborto seguro y legal. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">\"Our alliance is based on love and solidarity,\" says Neesa Medina, spokeswoman for Somos Muchas. \"Even in the face of natural disasters like the storms that hit the country in 2020 or the COVID pandemic, our response is feminist.\"<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span>","":null,"anchor_id":""}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A new horizon for women\u2019s rights in Honduras - F\u00f2s Feminista<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Feminist organizations in Honduras have begun to inspire hope for a new future. 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