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Centro Mujeres was founded in La Paz, Baja California Sur in 1991, by three community health professionals, in response to the growing burden on women and adolescents of unmet community health needs and human rights violations. In our first two years, Centro Mujeres offered counseling in family planning, AIDS education and reproductive rights education, within a human rights framework. In 1994, we were able to establish our own setting with the help of a seed grant from the Global Fund for Women. Since then, Centro Mujeres has grown in response to an acute community need for our programs and services. Centro Mujeres remains the only organization of its kind working in the state of BC Sur that is regarded by the community as a trustworthy and effective advocate for the sexual, reproductive and basic human rights of women and adolescents.
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| 1991 | Centro Mujeres is founded by Mónica Jasis, Teresa Shields and Noemi Carillo.
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| 1994 | The landmark UN Cairo agreements asserting women’s rights are signed.
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| 1995 | The Fourth World Conference on Women is held in Beijing.
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1996 | Program COPADO is created to introduce sex education in the schools. PROMESA is created as a community leadership training program. Centro Mujeres joins Milenio Feminista, a national network monitoring the status of the Beijing agreements in Mexico.
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| 1997 | Centro Mujeres joins Foro de
Población, a national network
monitoring the Cairo agreements
in Mexico.
Centro Mujeres participates in the first WHO Global Forum for Health Research, in Geneva, and presents a paper on conducting research from a gender perspective in Latin America.
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| 1999 | Centro Mujeres helps establish and joins
the South Californian Women’s Institute.
Centro Mujeres participates in international reparatory meetings for Cairo +5. The Center attends the “International Working meeting on Informed Consent in Family Planning Services” in Bellagio, Italy. Centro Mujeres offers the first certificate course on gender, reproductive health and population issues for professionals throughout the state.
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| 2000 | Centro Mujeres attends the National
Network of Grantmakers’ annual
meeting on globalization.
First printing of the best-selling Todo lo que Tú Preguntaste en los Talleres de Educación Sexual en Secundarias (“All You Asked in Your Junior High Sex-Ed Workshops”). Centro Mujeres works with NGOs from three other states to monitor Mexico’s implementation of the Cairo Program of Action, as part of the Latin American and the Caribbean Women’s Health Network.
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| 2001 | Centro Mujeres takes part in national
research into budget allocations for
reproductive health programs.
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| 2002 | Adolescencia y Juventud en México is
published, in conjunction with NGOs from three states.
The first “Leadership Training for Youth in Sexual and Reproductive Rights” is held. Campaigning begins for the creation of county youth councils to promote the rights of adolescents and young people.
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2003 | Centro Mujeres is invited by the WHO to
participate in the Strategic
Committee on STIs held in Geneva.
Foundation MERCED gives Centro
Mujeres its Rázon de Ser prize, for its
contribution to Mexican society and
quality of life in Mexico.
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| 2004 | Results from the program monitoring
the Cairo Program of Action in Mexico
are published. Centro Mujeres writes
the report on AIDS policies. |