Highlights of the Third Electoral Observatory Mission in Honduras, November 30th, 2025

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The Electoral Observation Mission aims to identify and address challenges to their full participation, including violence against women and the LGBTQI+ community, understand the community´s impact due to migrants' deportation, and ensure a fair, transparent, and inclusive electoral process with a gender equality focus.

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The Challenge in Honduras:

Honduras faces significant challenges to its democracy and the full participation of women in the country. These include structural violence, gender-based inequalities, land degradation, climate change, and corporate corruption. Women, particularly from Garífuna, Lenca, Miskito, and rural communities, are disproportionately affected by these issues, which also contribute to migration. Despite progress, such as the country being led by its first female President, the assaults on democratic values and the struggle for sovereignty continue.

Our Work and Impact:

Latinas en Poder has a proven track record of strengthening women's leadership and advocating for their rights. We have conducted two Electoral Observation Missions in recent elections in Guatemala (2023) and El Salvador (2024).

Highlights of the Results of the Monitoring Process of the Electoral Political Process in Guatemala

Building Political Power: A Call for Accountability and Participation

The Case of Guatemala

Building political power requires more than engagement—monitoring, observing, and understanding the processes and forces that uphold power structures. It also involves examining how and why we demand full participation in the political, civic, and democratic rights that are rightfully ours.

Data and Recommendations from our First Feminist Political Observatory, Electoral Mission in Guatemala.

Please review the results of the data collected with Latinas en Poder's partner organizations during the Guatemala electoral process.

Special recognition to the pivotal support of the Landivariana Women's Network of the Landivar University in making this research process happen!

August 2023

Latinas en Poder Observed the Electoral Process in eleven Departments in Guatemala. Most of the persons interviewed were from Guatemala (24%, Quetzaltenango (16%), Jutiapa (14%), and Jalapa (11.5%)

The ethnic background of most of the interviewed were Ladinas (57%), followed by 34.8% who identified as Indigenous.

36% of women reported to have suffered political violence

Principal violence reported: (1) Criminalization of Judges, (2) Political Violence, (3) Physical Violence, and harassment, (4) Denigrating candidates, (5) Sexist Threats

During the electoral process, the women interviewed identified seven principal issues: low wages (24.1%), lack of access to collective land (19.9%), poverty (17.4%), and political violence (10.5%)

Durante el proceso electoral, las mujeres entrevistadas identificaron siete problemas principales: bajos salarios (24,1%), falta de acceso a tierras colectivas (19,9%), pobreza (17,4%) y violencia política (10,5%).

Guatemalan Women Recommendations to the Newly Elected Government:

Lead with integrity and inclusivity.
Higher level of women's inclusion
Create housing programs to increase family stabilization
Create informational programs to promote land rights and eco-friendly programs to mitigate climate change.
Provide support to families under financial constraints and,
Resume the commitments of the Peace agreements

Radio program: The Feminist Perspective on the Presidential Election in Guatemala

Guatemala in Resistance for Democracy

Photograph taken from the Web.

Second Feminist Electoral Observatory Mission

Presidential and Parliamentarian Elections, El Salvador, February, 2024.

Latinas en Poder and member organization, RACDES, a Network of Organizations in El Salvador, organized the Second Feminist Transnational Electoral Observatory Mission, (our first Observatory in the country). The Delegation was composed of representatives of 20 women's organizations from San Salvador and 10 Departments, principally in rural communities, with the engagement of 20 other organizations (40 total), providing support and feedback to the process in communities.

Latinas en Poder interviewed 125 women, of which 51 represented women's organizations across the country, to take the pulse of the situation in the country. More than 50% stated that they had been victims of political violence or knew a victim of political violence.

Departments Interviewed during the Observatory Mission in El Salvador

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