Criminalization of Women Human Rights Defenders in Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua

One of the objectives of this research is to understand the patterns of criminalization that women human rights defenders experience, and the impacts on their bodies, lives and struggles, while at the same time revealing the power relations involved in the processes they face in the Mesoamerican region – specifically in Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua. 

The study analyzes the regional and national context of the phenomenon of criminalization as a starting point for analyzing women defenders’ experience of criminalization and its impacts on their family and personal circles, as well as on their organizational and community surroundings.

Authors then analyze how women defenders resist the multiple forms of violence perpetrated against them by the colonial, patriarchal, capitalist and heteronormative system through criminalization.