Geraldina Guerra Garcés is an Ecuadorian civil society expert and women rights activist. She is the president of the Latin American Association for Alternative Development (ALDEA) and leader of the National Women's Shelters Network focused on improving racial, social and gender equity. She was recognized in the BBC 100 influential women in the world in 2022.^[1][2]

Background and activism

Geraldina Guerra Garcés holds two degrees in social communication and migration and development from FLACSO. She is an independent researcher and a notable figure in social action and advocacy against violence perpetrated against women and children.^[3] She is one of the managers of civil society feminicide register. Her activism focuses on the protection of women and children rights and defense of victims of violence.^[4][5]

She is the founder of the Cartographies of Memory, an initiative that is devoted to creating “life maps” to keep the memory of victims of femicides alive and to spark a change in cultural attitudes. Guerra Garcés records cases of femicides for the Feminist Alliance and the Latin American Network Against Gender Violence.^[6][7]

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