About Us
At It Could Be Me: For Health Without Fear, we understand that sexual and reproductive health belongs squarely within the realm of healthcare. That’s why we set out to study and address this issue through a multi-country and multidimensional strategy in at least 9 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean.
Countries and partner organizations were selected based on the following criteria:
Ensuring geographic diversity
Including different models of abortion regulation
Strengthening the evidence base to promote positive change strategies toward abortion regulation through health systems in countries that aim to achieve this goal
The results from the first phase are clear: a paradigm shift is needed — to move toward eliminating or significantly reducing the use of criminal law in abortion regulation, because it is not only ineffective, but also obstructive, leading to criminalization and greater rights violations.
Who is part of this initiative?
Co-led by Ximena Casas Isaza and Ríos
Ximena Casas Isaza
Partner Organizations
Brazil
Anis – Institute of Bioethics is a feminist, anti-racist, and anti-ableist non-governmental organization founded in 1999 in Brazil. It promotes social and reproductive justice through intersectional actions to ensure inclusion, gender equality, autonomy, and human rights—especially for women, girls, and vulnerable populations—advocating for universal, evidence-based, and quality sexual and reproductive health services.
Chile
Corporación Miles is a Chilean non-profit NGO with over a decade of experience in defending sexual and reproductive rights in Chile and Latin America. From biomedical, psychosocial, and legal perspectives, it promotes sexual autonomy and reproductive justice as human rights, focusing on the needs of women and girls (both cis and trans). Founded in 2010 and formalized in 2015, it provides free accompaniment, advocates in public policy, and monitors the State to ensure a dignified, violence-free life.
Guatemala
Crisálida is a civil society organization of young and adult women, non-profit, founded in 2010 and legally established in 2013 in Guatemala. It has a feminist, popular education, and human rights approach. It works for access to comprehensive health—especially sexual and reproductive health—education, and knowledge generation to advance equality and the exercise of rights. Its efforts focus on preventing and addressing violence, forced pregnancies and unions, and denouncing the discrimination and inequality faced by girls, adolescents, women, and people with diverse sexual orientations, identities, economic conditions, ethnicities, cultures, migration statuses, and disabilities.
Dominican Republic
CLADEM Dominican Republic (Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women’s Rights) is a regional network of women and organizations with a feminist socio-legal approach, promoting social transformation and inclusive democracies through an intersectional lens. Active since 2005, it works for gender equality, the eradication of violence against women, their participation in decision-making, and the decriminalization of abortion, ensuring the full exercise of human rights for all women.
Perú
Multidisciplinary feminist organization working to overcome gender-based inequalities and generate social change that enables the full realization of people’s life projects. It operates with the following approaches: intersectionality, human development, life cycles, queer theory, gender equality, and autonomy.
Uruguay
Mujer y Salud en Uruguay (MYSU) is a feminist non-governmental organization whose mission is to promote and defend sexual and reproductive health and rights from a gender and generational perspective. It has a stable team and a network of associated professionals and researchers at both national and regional levels.
