Nicaragua

NGO Contacts
United Nations Contacts
Governmental Contacts
New York Permanent Mission

NGO CONTACTS

Asociación de Mujeres para el Desarrollo
Issues: We are a non-governmental organization that works on a non-profit basis for the advancement of women and the community in general.
AMUPADE, Casa de la Mujer, La Gateada, Chontales
Ph #: (505) 278-6304 (Group’s) or 266-7035 (Peace Corps- Amanda Tumulty)

Association of Nicaraguan Women Luisa
Campaign for Socio-political Participation
Apartado A238, Managua

Colectivo de Mujeres ITZA
Issues: Promotion of women’s rights, physical/psychological/sexual violence program, organization of nonviolent women/adolescents working towards a personal/public empowerment, sexual/reproductive health, medical attention, psychotherapy, training women to be powerful and to be leaders.
Del Edificio Armando Guido 3 c abajo 1/2 c al sur
Barrio San Luis, Carretera Norte, Managua
Ph #: 505 2490062
Fax #: 505 2490062
Email: itza@ibw.com.ni

Colectiva de Mujeres de Masaya
Issues: To strengthen the women’s movement and to fight against unequal power relationships in society.
Enitel 1c. al norte, Masaya
Ph #: (505) 52 25458
Fax #: (505) 52 25458
Email: cdmdm@tmx.com.ni

Colectivo de Mujeres 8 de Marzo
Issues: To identify and decrease the incidence of domestic and sexual violence through the different services that the collective offers: health, legal aid and support groups, etc.
De Siemens 2 cuadras arriba 1/2 cuadra al sur, Managua
Ph #: 505 2 491701
Fax #: 505 2 491701
Email: mujeres@ibw.com.ni, jardines@ibw.com.ni

Programa Regional La Corriente
Issues: Advance feminist proposals in the women’s movement, in the state and other areas of Central American society through the generation and socialization of feminist knowledge, the formation of women’s leadership and the elaboration of public policies.
Managu
aEmail: malinche@ibw.com.ni

MADRE - Nicaragua
121 West 27th Street, Room 301, New York, NY 10001
Ph #: (212) 627-0444
Fax #: (212) 675-3704
E-mail: madre@igc.org
Web-site: www.madre.org/country_nica.html

Red Centroamerica "Mujeres y Politica"
Cenzontle, Apartado 5334, Managua
Ph #: (50-52) 65 29 83
Fax #: (50-52) 65 14 25
E-mail: cenzontl@ibw.com.ni

Red de Mujeres contra la Violencia
Issues: We wish to transform power relations in order to eradicate all forms of violence that attack the dignity and the physical, psychic, moral, social and sexual integrity of women of all ages, particularly sexual and domestic violence.
Costado Norte del Parque El Dorado
Residencial El Dorado Casa No. 422, Managua
Ph #: 505 2493607, 2683141
Email: laredmcv@ibw.com.ni

Servicio Paz y Justicia-SERPAJ Nicaragua
Apartado 305, Managua
Ph #: 505 270-5547
Fax #: 505 270-5548

Sí Mujer
Women' s Health NGO that Networks With Agencies to Develop Projects
Ap. Postal 2109, Correo Central, Managua
Ph #: (505-2) 223 237
Fax #: (505-2) 680 038
E-mail: simujer@ns.tmx.com.ni

UNITED NATIONS CONTACTS

Central American Regional Office for UNIFEM
Countries Include Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El
Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama
Presidente Mazaryk No. 29, Piso 10
Colonia Polanco, 11570 Mexico, D.F. Mexico
Phone: 52-5-263-9808
Fax: 52-5-203-1894
E-mail: unifem@un.org.mx
Website: www.un.org.mx/unifem/

UNIFEM Gender Advisor for Central America
Contact: Maddalena Pezzotti
6. Av. 20-25
Edificio Plaza Marítima, 8th Floor
Zona 10, Guatemala City Guatemala C.A.
Ph #: 502-337-0611/0616 ext. 408
Fax #: 502-337-0304
E-mail: maddalena.pezzotti@undp.org

GOVERNMENT CONTACTS

Instituto Nicaragüense de la Mujer (INIM)
Planes de Altamira, Casa No. 174, Managua
Ph #: (505-2) 782-523
Fax #: (505-2) 782-569

NEW YORK PERMANENT MISSION


Permanent Representative of Nicaragua to the United Nations
820 Second Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10017
Ph#: (212) 490-7997
Fax#: (212) 286-0815
Email: nicaragua@un.int