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Sociedad Mexicana Pro Derechos de la Mujer, AC

What is Semillas?

Semillas (Sociedad Mexicana Pro Derechos de la Mujer, A.C.) is a non-profit organization that makes grants to organized women’s groups that seek to develop projects to promote the awareness and exercise of women’s human rights.

Semillas, which in Spanish means seeds, knows that all the different responsibilities and duties that women have as mothers, caretakers, providers, educators, resource generators, politicians, field workers, business owners, social leaders, scholars, artists, etc… make them the fundamental factors of change in their families, communities, and society at large. Semillas is also aware that strengthening Mexican women’s rights builds a more just society, promotes a new culture of equality between women and men, and improves life conditions for generations to come.

Indigenous Attorneys-at-Law Support Incarcerated Women

On a Sunday, Juana and her daughter were taken in a patrol car to a place they cannot recall. Everything happened so fast. Later on, they were taken to the Public Prosecutor Precinct: “Just sign here and you can go home”, –the officer told her.

Juana’s mother tongue is Chinanteco, therefore she doesn’t know how to read or write Spanish, and knowingly that she had not committed any crime, she trusted the authorities and gave them her fingerprints in consent on a couple of blank pieces of paper.

I have changed

"I have changed as a person, in my life and at home. I was constantly humiliated by my husband who used to put me down telling me how useless I was, that I had no rights and that I had to stay at home and fulfill my duties as a wife and as a mother. He used to tell me that I had no right to leave the house because that would prevent me from taking care of him. He would then threaten me to start drinking if I did leave the house and abandon him. He would scream and I would keep quiet. I felt worthless and ignorant, always silent and never answering back.

Working for Women's Reproductive Health

Francisca and Avelina know only too well the conditions of marginality and discrimination that Indigenous women suffer because of their dress or their inability to speak Spanish. As women who are aware of their rights and who are leaders in their own communities, these women have become an intercultural bridge between healthcare workers and pregnant Indigenous women in need of medical attention.