Geraldina Guerra Garcés
Geraldina Guerra Garcés | |
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Addressing the National Assembly in 2024 | |
| Born | 1975 (age 49–50) Ecuador |
| Alma mater | Universidad Central del Ecuador, Latino-Americana de Ciências Sociais |
| Occupation(s) | women's rights activist and campaigner against femicide |
| Years active | 1990s–present |
| Employer | Latin American Association for Alternative Development (ALDEA) |
Geraldina Guerra Garcés (born 1975) is an Ecuadorian women's rights activist and campaigner against femicide.
Biography
Garcés was born in Ecuador in 1975[1] and is based in Quito.[2] She has a degree in social communication from the Universidad Central del Ecuador and a diploma in migration and development from the Latino-Americana de Ciências Sociais.[3]
Garcés has worked as a women's right's activist for almost 20 years.[3] She has said that “Latin America is the second deadliest region for women due to the number of femicides."[2] For the Cartographies of Memory initiative, she tracks cases and maps the lives of femicide victims, aiming to increase the visibility of the crime in Ecuador.[4][5] The campaign was featured in a BBC World Service documentary in 2022.[6]
Garcés is also president of the Latin American Association for Alternative Development (ALDEA).[7][8] She has collaborated with other initiatives such as the Latin American Network Against Gender Violence.[2]
She was named a BBC 100 Woman in 2022.[5][9][10]
References
- ^ Hernández, Publicado por Hortensia. "Geraldina Guerra Garcés activista contra los feminicidios en Ecuador". Retrieved 3 April 2025.
- ^ a b c "Geraldina Guerra: "Para vivir sin violencia hay que nombrarla, y para eso nos sirve el activismo"". www.vistazo.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 April 2025.
- ^ a b D'Ignazio, Catherine (30 April 2024). Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action. MIT Press. p. 291. ISBN 978-0-262-04887-3.
- ^ "Femicide: Keeping the memory of murdered women alive with maps". BBC News. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
- ^ a b "BBC 100 Women 2022: Who is on the list this year?". BBC News. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
- ^ BBC World Service (23 May 2022). Femicide Detectives: 'They keep killing women and it just isn't fair'. Retrieved 3 April 2025 – via YouTube.
- ^ "An Ecuadorian among the 100 most influential women in the world". Ecuador Times. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
- ^ Mora, Marín and Nicole, Cristina. (2022) "La reparación integral y el delito de femicidio en el Ecuador." Facultad de Jurisprudencia y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Técnica de Ambato.
- ^ "Una ecuatoriana entre las 100 mujeres más influyentes del mundo". Revista La Verdad (in Spanish). 7 December 2022. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
- ^ "Entrevista: La activista ecuatoriana entre las 100 mejores influyentes del mundo". Radio Online Corape, Coordinadora de Medios Comunitarios Populares y Educativos del Ecuador Diseño (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 April 2025.