SiX National Conference 2024

Paula Ávila-Guillen is a Green Wave movement leader, international human rights lawyer, and Executive Director at the Women's Equality Center (WEC). She has helped lead the fight to decriminalize abortion in her home country of Colombia, and has supported the efforts that led to the decriminalization in Argentina and Mexico. Paula is part of the coalition of leaders holding El Salvador's government accountable for the systematic persecution and criminalization of women unjustly sentenced to imprisonment after having suffered obstetric emergencies, and has contributed to the freedom of all the Salvadoran women who were incarcerated.