RSMLAC brings together individuals and organizations from social movements and women’s health movements to promote, advance, and defend the right to universal access to comprehensive health, the full exercise of human rights —especially sexual and reproductive rights— and women’s citizenship, from feminist and intercultural perspectives.
Through this collective platform, RSMLAC seeks to strengthen the political action capacity of Latin American and Caribbean feminism, while sharing reflections, learnings, and strategies guided by the following principles:
* The defense of the human rights of women in the region, especially sexual and reproductive rights and the right to comprehensive health throughout the life cycle.
* The historic demand of women for sexual and reproductive freedom and control over their own bodies, as a political and philosophical principle guiding its action.
* Women’s right to enjoy their sexuality freely and without violence, discrimination, or coercion of any kind.
* The defense of universality and equity in the exercise of the right to health, as well as public health policies that respond to women’s needs.
* The affirmation of the right to pleasure as a human right.
* The affirmation of women’s full citizenship.
* The defense of a secular State.
* The rejection of all forms of fundamentalism.
* The defense of peace and autonomy as fundamental conditions for the life, dignity, integrity, and health of women and the population as a whole.
* The commitment to preventing and eradicating gender-based violence.
* Respect for and recognition of diversity, as well as opposition to all forms of discrimination based on sex, age, ethnicity, race, class, or sexual orientation.
