Video: Women's Movement in Nicaragua

The women’s movement and the struggle for their rights in Nicaragua, 1998 – 2008

From 2008-2010, Hivos and ISS facilitated a research programme to analyze Nicaragua’s women’s movement and the strategies developed during the last ten years to defend and extend women’s rights. This tier of the knowledge programme involved academics, practitioners and activists from Hivos, ISS, Movimiento Autonomo de Mujeres and Centro de Investigacion de la Comunicacion.

The study took into account a broad participation of the movement’s leaders through the different activities of knowledge exchange and reflections involved at national and local level. This exercise of an ample and frank debate allowed to go deeply into some important aspects such as: the background of the movement, the strategies, the relationship with different social and political actors, the strength of the movement and the challenges for the future. It also incorporates the assessment and voices of the autonomous regions of the Caribbean Coast, in order to know their perspectives on the movement.

This video shows the methodology and outcomes of this project with the women’s movement in Nicarugua that struggled against the prohibition of therapeutic abortion. The video is frequently used by the women’s movement in their workshops, forums and other gatherings in both Nicaragua and abroad.

The full research (in Spanish) and a research summary in both English and Spanish will soon be published on this website.

Watch the video (in Spanish with English Subtitles) here, on our brand new Hivos Knowledge Programme Vimeo Channel.