Estudio para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer (DEMUS)

Demus is a feminist organization recognized in the Peruvian society and in the regional field as an organization that defends and looks after the human rights of women. Its mission is to strenghten an alternative trend of defense and recognition of women human rights, in particular, the sexual and reproductive rights, making a new cultural paradigm of the women. Thus, developing a pressure role, vigilance, and public incident to contribute to the elimination of women violence and all ways of discrimination based in the differerence of gender, class, and ethnic group. Influence in the public opinion and in the alliance with other organizations to strength the democracy and the excercise of the rights.