Geraldina Guerra Garcés
Geraldina Guerra Garcés | |
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.jpg) 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) |
| Organization(s) | Feminist Alliance for Mapping Femicides in Ecuador Latin American Network Against Gender Violence National Network of Shelters for Victims of Gender Violence |
Geraldina Guerra Garcés (born 1975) is an Ecuadorian women's rights activist and campaigner against femicide. She tracks cases and maps the lives of femicide victims, is president of the Latin American Association for Alternative Development (ALDEA) and has collaborated with other initiatives such as the Latin American Network Against Gender Violence. She was named a BBC 100 Woman in 2022.
Biography
Garcés was born in Ecuador in 1975[1] and is based in Quito.[2] Edmundo Guerra Vivero, a public sector unionist who founded the El Conejo corporation.[3]
Garcés 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 (Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences).[4]
Garcés has worked as a women's right's activist for almost 20 years.[4] She has said that “Latin America is the second deadliest region for women due to the number of femicides,"[2] with a woman becoming a victim of femicide every 23 hours.[5] Garcés is part of the Feminist Alliance for Mapping Femicides in Ecuador.[6] 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.[7][8] The campaign was featured in a BBC World Service documentary in 2022.[9]
Garcés is also president of the Latin American Association for Alternative Development (ALDEA).[10][11] She has collaborated with other initiatives such as the Latin American Network Against Gender Violence[2][12] and is the public face of the National Network of Shelters for Victims of Gender Violence in Ecuador.[6]
She was named a BBC 100 Woman in 2022.[8][13][14]
References
- ^ Hernández, Hortensia (26 January 2023). "Geraldina Guerra Garcés activista contra los feminicidios en Ecuador". Heroinas. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
- ^ a b c "Geraldina Guerra: "Para vivir sin violencia hay que nombrarla, y para eso nos sirve el activismo"". Vistazo (in Spanish). 8 March 2024. Archived from the original on 4 April 2025. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
- ^ "Geraldina Guerra: una mujer que no calla". Revista Mundo Diners (in Spanish). 1 March 2023. Retrieved 31 July 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.
- ^ "En Ecuador se registraron 122 femicidios de enero a abril de 2023, según organizaciones sociales". El Universo (in Spanish). 2 August 2023. Retrieved 31 July 2025.
- ^ a b "Geraldina Guerra Garcés , presidenta de ALDEA, es reconocida entre las 100 mujeres más influyentes e inspiradoras del mundo en 2022, segun la BBC". ALDEA (in Spanish). 13 December 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2025.
- ^ "Femicide: Keeping the memory of murdered women alive with maps". BBC News. 22 May 2022. Archived from the original on 3 April 2025. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
- ^ a b "BBC 100 Women 2022: Who is on the list this year?". BBC News. Archived from the original on 7 December 2022. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
- ^ BBC World Service (23 May 2022). Femicide Detectives: 'They keep killing women and it just isn't fair'. Archived from the original on 9 September 2024. Retrieved 3 April 2025 – via YouTube.
- ^ "An Ecuadorian among the 100 most influential women in the world". Ecuador Times. 7 December 2022. Archived from the original on 3 April 2025. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
- ^ Mora, Marín and Nicole, Cristina. (2022) "La reparación integral y el delito de femicidio en el Ecuador Archived 4 April 2025 at the Wayback Machine." Facultad de Jurisprudencia y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Técnica de Ambato.
- ^ Pinchao, Juan; Trujillo, Yadira (6 December 2022). "Geraldina Guerra, una de las 100 mujeres influyentes e inspiradoras del 2022, da un mensaje a Guillermo Lasso". El Comercio (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 July 2025.
- ^ "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.