About us
The OVIM is a space created collectively through a council made up of more than 20 civil society organisations from different autonomous communities of the Spanish State and five individual experts.
Associació Hèlia y Almena Cooperativa Feminista They are the driving forces behind the Observatory of Institutional Gender-Based Violence.
OVIM structure
Council
Find out where the organizations that make up the Council are located:
Andalucía
Canarias
Non-governmental and non-profit organization defending women's rights that works to promote and develop maximum participation of women's associations in civil society, in the fight against discrimination and in the active promotion of equal rights and opportunities between women and men.
Catalunya
A feminist, non-profit organization created with the aim of fighting for and defending women's rights through prevention and awareness-raising, specialized care and addressing gender-based violence from a feminist and community perspective. It offers support for recovery and comprehensive reparation to women who are experiencing or have experienced situations of gender-based violence, as well as to women who are in a situation of multiple vulnerabilities, lack of a support network and social isolation.
Non-profit Social and Solidarity Economy Cooperative that works to address gender-based violence and mainstream gender perspectives by creating political advocacy from a feminist, intersectional and anti-racist perspective. Experts in public policy and in the construction of collective and participatory processes.
An association that, from a feminist and comprehensive perspective, fights every day to eradicate sexual violence, through specialized training, prevention and awareness programs, psychological, legal and social support, self-defense and empowerment workshops.
Non-profit association made up of volunteers and professionals who offer support to women survivors of gender-based violence until they fully recover and become empowered, working in a network to meet their needs from a feminist, intersectional and human rights perspective.
Reference entity that offers training, advice and professional consultancy. It generates content and care processes based on its own experience and networking. It designs, manages and develops care and support services for women, young people and families.
Collective formed by migrant women, mostly Mexican, committed to the struggle for a society free of patriarchy. Its main objective is to denounce, repudiate and protest against the violence that affects women and girls in Mexico, which is reflected in the alarming number of disappearances and murders.
Association that makes everyday women in Camp de Tarragona and Terres de l'Ebre visible. It has a radio programme on Tarragona Ràdio, is part of the VecinasxVecinas project in Camp de Tarragona, promoted by the Hèlia Association, and carries out training and workshops on empowerment, prevention and awareness against gender-based violence.
Community-based entity that fights for the exercise of freedom and in favor of social justice to guarantee Sexual and Reproductive Rights.
Non-profit cooperative that creates safe environments for women who use drugs and survive multiple situations of vulnerability and violence. An innovative and bold intervention model based on human rights and gender mainstreaming, supported by community strategies and social and solidarity economy.
Platform that works collectively to raise awareness and mobilize citizens, preventing gender-based violence through education. It influences public policies for women's right to live free from gender-based violence and supports women's movements around the world.
Entity that aims to give a voice to Roma women and promote actions that contribute to combating prejudices and stereotypes of Roma culture from a gender and intersectional perspective. It fights to contribute to changing the scarce and stereotypical representation of Roma women and transform their personal, political, economic, social and cultural situation, contributing, at the same time, to the fight of women to achieve equality.
Comunidad de Madrid
Non-governmental development organization dedicated to promoting sustainable human development with social justice from a human rights and feminist approach, and weaving networks both locally and globally.
Initiative that uses human rights and feminism to ensure that all women have access to a life free from gender-based violence in all its forms and discrimination.
Non-governmental organization whose purposes are to prevent and eradicate all forms of gender-based violence against women, especially sexual violence, from a feminist perspective and with a focus on gender, human rights and intersectionality, with the aim of contributing to guaranteeing the rights of all women, under conditions of equality and without discrimination of any kind.
Foral Community of Navarre
Feminist association that fights to eradicate sexist violence and in favor of equality, considering feminism as the only vaccine to eradicate sexist violence. They provide support and mentoring with a gender perspective, especially in sexual violence against survivors and family members; and in vicarious and institutional violence.
Comunidad de Valencia
Association that contributes, through its actions, to the fight against gender violence, to the empowerment of women, to the full exercise of their rights and to the achievement of gender equality, as essential conditions to achieve social justice, sustainable human development and peace. It also develops co-development and international cooperation programs in Latin America.
A non-profit, non-governmental, secular organization made up of a network of women activists and organizations in favor of human rights, equality and non-discrimination, created to support immigrant women and victims of gender violence in Spain.
Extremadura
Mujeres libres, mujeres en paz, through the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECID) and the Coordinator of NGOs-Spain, is a working group that aims to raise awareness throughout society about the causes and consequences of violence suffered by women and girls around the world, as well as the situation regarding the exercise of rights by women at a global level, claiming the role of international cooperation in the fight for a more equal world.
Beside
Ana Martínez Pérez, Laia Serra i Perelló, Lorena Garrido Jiménez, Marta Cabezas Fernández y Tania Sordo Ruz.
Management Team
The OVIM management team, which is also part of the Council, is made up of:
Associació Hèlia
Non-profit association, formed in 2008, that offers support to women survivors of gender-based violence until their full recovery and empowerment, working in a network to cover their needs, from a feminist, intersectional and human rights perspective. We also participate in feminist solidarity projects in Palestine with the aim of sharing and strengthening experiences of resistance and struggle against patriarchy.
Almena Cooperativa Feminista
A non-profit social initiative cooperative founded in 2017 with the aim of contributing to political and social change, leaving heteropatriarchy behind. Almena is an expert in public policy, sexist violence and the construction of collective and participatory processes. All from a triple feminist, intersectional and anti-racist perspective.
International observatories
The allied international observatories are:
Observatorio Colombiano de Feminicidios
Information system of the Antimilitarist Feminist Network that, based on local, regional and national press, tracks cases of femicide and violence against women throughout Colombia.
- observatoriofeminicides@redfeministaantimilitarista.org
Observatorio Ciudadano Nacional del Feminicidio (OCNF)
Articulation of citizen participation in Mexico that monitors, supervises and systematizes information on the lack of prosecution and administration of justice for victims of femicide violence or gender discrimination.
- ocnf@observatoriofeminicidiomexico.org
Observatório das Mulheres (OM)
National mechanism that emerged in Mozambique to represent the diversity of voices seeking to empower women, ensure accountability and advocate for the elimination of barriers that inhibit the realization of their rights.
- solidarity@frontlinedefenders.org
Other allies
Key allies are:
- Women who have experienced institutional sexist violence.
- Professionals from institutions, services and/or independents.
- Experts and activists on gender-based violence.
- Non-governmental organizations, feminists, associations and collectives that fight for the right to a life free from sexist violence.
OVIM structure
Find out where the organizations that make up the Assembly are located:
Andalucía
Canarias
Non-governmental and non-profit organization defending women's rights that works to promote and develop maximum participation of women's associations in civil society, in the fight against discrimination and in the active promotion of equal rights and opportunities between women and men.
Catalunya
A feminist, non-profit organization created with the aim of fighting for and defending women's rights through prevention and awareness-raising, specialized care and addressing gender-based violence from a feminist and community perspective. It offers support for recovery and comprehensive reparation to women who are experiencing or have experienced situations of gender-based violence, as well as to women who are in a situation of multiple vulnerabilities, lack of a support network and social isolation.
Non-profit Social and Solidarity Economy Cooperative that works to address gender-based violence and mainstream gender perspectives by creating political advocacy from a feminist, intersectional and anti-racist perspective. Experts in public policy and in the construction of collective and participatory processes.
An association that, from a feminist and comprehensive perspective, fights every day to eradicate sexual violence, through specialized training, prevention and awareness programs, psychological, legal and social support, self-defense and empowerment workshops.
Non-profit association made up of volunteers and professionals who offer support to women survivors of gender-based violence until they fully recover and become empowered, working in a network to meet their needs from a feminist, intersectional and human rights perspective.
Reference entity that offers training, advice and professional consultancy. It generates content and care processes based on its own experience and networking. It designs, manages and develops care and support services for women, young people and families.
Collective formed by migrant women, mostly Mexican, committed to the struggle for a society free of patriarchy. Its main objective is to denounce, repudiate and protest against the violence that affects women and girls in Mexico, which is reflected in the alarming number of disappearances and murders.
Association that makes everyday women in Camp de Tarragona and Terres de l'Ebre visible. It has a radio programme on Tarragona Ràdio, is part of the VecinasxVecinas project in Camp de Tarragona, promoted by the Hèlia Association, and carries out training and workshops on empowerment, prevention and awareness against gender-based violence.
Community-based entity that fights for the exercise of freedom and in favor of social justice to guarantee Sexual and Reproductive Rights.
Non-profit cooperative that creates safe environments for women who use drugs and survive multiple situations of vulnerability and violence. An innovative and bold intervention model based on human rights and gender mainstreaming, supported by community strategies and social and solidarity economy.
Platform that works collectively to raise awareness and mobilize citizens, preventing gender-based violence through education. It influences public policies for women's right to live free from gender-based violence and supports women's movements around the world.
Entity that aims to give a voice to Roma women and promote actions that contribute to combating prejudices and stereotypes of Roma culture from a gender and intersectional perspective. It fights to contribute to changing the scarce and stereotypical representation of Roma women and transform their personal, political, economic, social and cultural situation, contributing, at the same time, to the fight of women to achieve equality.
Comunidad de Madrid
Non-governmental development organization dedicated to promoting sustainable human development with social justice from a human rights and feminist approach, and weaving networks both locally and globally.
Initiative that uses human rights and feminism to ensure that all women have access to a life free from gender-based violence in all its forms and discrimination.
Non-governmental organization whose purposes are to prevent and eradicate all forms of gender-based violence against women, especially sexual violence, from a feminist perspective and with a focus on gender, human rights and intersectionality, with the aim of contributing to guaranteeing the rights of all women, under conditions of equality and without discrimination of any kind.
Foral Community of Navarre
Feminist association that fights to eradicate sexist violence and in favor of equality, considering feminism as the only vaccine to eradicate sexist violence. They provide support and mentoring with a gender perspective, especially in sexual violence against survivors and family members; and in vicarious and institutional violence.
Comunidad de Valencia
Association that contributes, through its actions, to the fight against gender violence, to the empowerment of women, to the full exercise of their rights and to the achievement of gender equality, as essential conditions to achieve social justice, sustainable human development and peace. It also develops co-development and international cooperation programs in Latin America.
A non-profit, non-governmental, secular organization made up of a network of women activists and organizations in favor of human rights, equality and non-discrimination, created to support immigrant women and victims of gender violence in Spain.
Extremadura
Mujeres libres, mujeres en paz, through the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECID) and the Coordinator of NGOs-Spain, is a working group that aims to raise awareness throughout society about the causes and consequences of violence suffered by women and girls around the world, as well as the situation regarding the exercise of rights by women at a global level, claiming the role of international cooperation in the fight for a more equal world.
Beside
Ana Martínez Pérez, Laia Serra i Perelló, Lorena Garrido Jiménez, Marta Cabezas Fernández y Tania Sordo Ruz.
The functions of the Assembly are:
- Participate actively by providing opinions, reflections and concrete strategies, as well as validating the work of the OVIM.
- Actively participate in achieving the OVIM objectives.
- Participate in the dissemination and political advocacy strategy on behalf of OVIM.
- Actively participate in the contribution of individual cases through the reporting channel.
- Commit to facilitating and working on the construction and documentation of paradigmatic cases.
- Participate in OVIM communication.
- Participate, to the extent possible, in the working committees.
- Participate in the search for joint funds for the sustainability of OVIM.
- Actively participate in research within the framework of the OVIM.
Observation Commission
- Monitor data collection channels, proposing improvements.
- Propose approaches and dimensions of analysis in the collected data.
- Review the data obtained and contribute to its analysis.
- Propose and guide reports and other products based on the data collected, taking into account the political and social impact of OVIM.
- Identify the resources needed to sustain the reporting channel.
Commission for social and political impact strategy
- Validate, modify, monitor and propose improvements to the OVIM's political and social impact proposal.
- Establish strategic alliances with public service professionals to facilitate political and social advocacy actions.
- Establish and strengthen strategic communication lines based on the priorities identified in the political and social advocacy strategy.
- Identify the resources needed for the sustainability of political and social advocacy.
- Participate in research within the framework of OVIM, related to the political and social advocacy strategy.
- Evaluate the implementation of the strategy.
The OVIM management team, which is also part of the Assembly, is made up of:
Associació Hèlia
Non-profit association, formed in 2008, that offers support to women survivors of gender-based violence until their full recovery and empowerment, working in a network to cover their needs, from a feminist, intersectional and human rights perspective. We also participate in feminist solidarity projects in Palestine with the aim of sharing and strengthening experiences of resistance and struggle against patriarchy.
Almena Cooperativa Feminista
A non-profit social initiative cooperative founded in 2017 with the aim of contributing to political and social change, leaving heteropatriarchy behind. Almena is an expert in public policy, sexist violence and the construction of collective and participatory processes. All from a triple feminist, intersectional and anti-racist perspective.
The functions of the management team are:
- Coordinate the implementation activities (strategies and objectives) of the OVIM.
- Coordinate the search for resources for the sustainability of the OVIM.
- Coordinate research actions within the framework of the data collected and the political and social advocacy strategy.
- Participate in the analysis of data collected from different collection channels.
- Promote and coordinate communication actions linked to the political and social advocacy strategy.
- Coordinate and energize the assembly and related committees.
Key Allies
The objectives of these alliances with other Observatories are:
- Exchange experiences.
- Advise the OVIM.
- Carry out joint activities (research, conferences, exchange days, among others).
- Sharing resources for joint research and strategies.
The allied international observatories are:
Observatorio Colombiano de Feminicidios
Information system of the Antimilitarist Feminist Network that, based on local, regional and national press, tracks cases of femicide and violence against women throughout Colombia.
Observatorio Ciudadano Nacional del Feminicidio (OCNF)
Articulation of citizen participation in Mexico that monitors, supervises and systematizes information on the lack of prosecution and administration of justice for victims of femicide violence or gender discrimination.
Key allies are:
- Women who have experienced institutional sexist violence.
- Professionals from institutions, services and/or independents.
- Experts and activists on gender-based violence.
- Non-governmental organizations, feminists, associations and collectives that fight for the right to a life free from sexist violence.
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