The Women's Sector

The Women's Sector is an umbrella organisation for women's associations that works for women's economic development, in the struggle against violence against women, and denounces impunity and 'femicide'.

Currently: In March we accompanied the Women's Sector with regular visits to there offices; we also met with Sandra Moran, the Leadership and Organisational Strengthening programme co-ordinator.

Background: In less than 10 days, between the end of May and the beginning of June 2006, the headquarters of the Women's Sector were broken into twice. The first time the intruders stole telephones and money and smeared blood on the walls; the second time they destroyed furniture, searched through files and left a bloody piece of glass on one of the desks. The Sector reported these acts as intimidation and asked for police protection.