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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.

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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.

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El Semillón Campaign

For the fifth year in a row, Semillas launches El Semillón Campaign (The Big Seed). Its goal is to raise one million pesos (80,000USD) from October 15th, to March 15th, in order to support 10 additional women’s organizations and their projects during 2010.

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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.

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