WHO WE ARE
Founded in 2003, the Institute of Inequalities is a Non-Governmental Organization whose main objective is to investigate and denounce the geographic, socioeconomic and gender inequalities that have a greater impact on the community, as well as to think about, propose and implement alternatives and actions, from the community and university spheres to propose and implement alternatives.
To achieve these objectives, the Institute carries out research, innovation, awareness raising, denunciation, development cooperation, community action and advocacy for the generation of policies.
MISSIÓ
Donar veu als col·lectius vulnerats, fomentar polítiques igualitàries, sensibilitzar a la població i promoure la mobilització col·lectiva a través de la construcció d’espais de debat i de nous discursos que advoquin per la defensa dels col·lectius en situació de desigualtat, com són les dones migrades, les persones racialitzades i les persones llegides com a musulmanes.
VISIÓ
Arribar a ser una organització capdavantera per a les entitats del Tercer Sector a Catalunya de manera que l’Institut de les Desigualtats esdevingui un organisme de referència per als col·lectius més vulnerables i serveixi de suport i ajuda per a aquests.
WHAT WE DO
The ID’s work is based on four lines of work around which all the projects they carry out revolve. These lines of work are:
GENDER INEQUALITIES AND SUPPORT FOR FEMINISMS
Line of work that includes projects that promote the reporting of rights violations and support for the increase of organizational capacities of women’s and feminist movements, promotion of policies and recognition of leadership to reduce reported violations. All of this is done in a transversal way to consider and recognize the diversity of women in terms of social class, legal status, sexual diversity, origin, religion or disability.
DEFENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
It is based on the conviction that vulnerable groups must be given a voice and a leading role in actions. It also recognizes the importance of promoting the participation of communities in decision-making that concerns them collectively and as individuals.
INEQUALITIES IN HEALTH
Line of work that includes projects that study health inequalities and the social determinants that cause them and propose actions to reduce them.
FIGHT AGAINST ISLAMOPHOBIA AND RACISM
Islamophobia and racism are a growing phenomenon, heightened by the emergence and consolidation of new far-right political forces with clearly racist and Islamophobic narratives that normalise discriminatory discourse. Muslim women experience Islamophobia from the paternalistic and racist perspective of the Western population and governments both in their countries of origin and when they migrate to Western countries. These women are denied the right to dignified treatment, to choose the religion they want, to freedom of dress and expression, among others, and rarely enjoy the right to protection against the discrimination they suffer.
Lines of work of the Institute
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ORGANIZATION CHART
DIRECTION
Laura Guisasola
With more than 20 years of experience in the world of cooperation, she holds a PhD in biomedicine and is a specialist in inequalities. A founding member of the Institute, she works on research and university training projects.
Medhat Thabet Abomailek
A Catalan Palestinian, he has worked in various health fields and combines his free time between defending people’s rights and farming.
Olga Dern
She has been a midwife for 25 years. She has a postgraduate degree in sexology. Since 2009 she has been working at ASSIR (Sexual and Reproductive Health Care) in Sabadell. She has devoted a large part of her work to combating inequalities in the area of sexual rights, providing care and carrying out affective-sexual education activities for women, young people, people with functional diversity and trans people. She has also worked internationally through the Institute.
TECHNICAL COORDINATION
Roger Grasas (Administrador)
A graduate in Philosophy and Photography, he has extensive experience in the design and production of audiovisual content, especially in the field of cooperation and education for global justice. He combines his creation as a photographer with teaching in visual studies (IEFC) as well as directing the Postgraduate Course in Documentary Photography at IDEP Barcelona.
Anna Rius (Project Manager)
Researcher in inequalities, she has worked for more than 25 years on cooperation and education projects for development. With a Master’s degree in Public Health and a PhD in Biomedicine, she coordinates the Institute’s projects.
Clara Esparza Mengual
Journalist specialising in intercultural studies and migration in the Mediterranean. Her professional experience has been based on project management and communication in third sector entities, mainly in the areas of development cooperation and humanitarian action. She often writes for digital media on gender and feminism.
Victoria Muñoz
Afro-Catalan and student of Law + Political Science and Public Management. She has worked from Afro-feminist cooperatives in project management and works collectively from activism. Thus, her areas of work are political anti-racism, Afro-feminism, Pan-Africanism, institutional violence, the political system and Human Rights.
COMMUNICATION AND IMAGE
Mireia Comas
Freelance photographer with studies at the IEFC, her work focuses mainly on popular culture, social movements in her country and denouncing injustices against the most vulnerable.
Marc Castellet
A director, editor and video colourist, he also studied photography at the Institute of Photographic Studies of Catalonia (IEFC) and has been a photography teacher at the Isla Art School. In the audiovisual field, his work includes projects such as documentary and TV advertising director.
Roger Grasas
A graduate in Philosophy and Photography, he has extensive experience in the design and production of audiovisual content, especially in the field of cooperation and education for global justice. He combines his creation as a photographer with teaching in visual studies (IEFC) as well as directing the Postgraduate Course in Documentary Photography at IDEP Barcelona.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Laura Guisasola
As head of the Visió Optometria y Salud research group at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, he contributes his experience in directing theses and doctoral theses in the field of the study of inequalities in Visual Health at the Institute of Inequalities.
Corina Tulbure
Researcher and journalist. Her areas of work include borders, racism, social control systems and the mobilization of undocumented migrants. As a journalist, she has covered forms of forced displacement, migration control and political processes in Eastern Europe (2013-2020). She obtained a PhD in 2016 at the University of Barcelona and has collaborated with PRIO and the University of Oslo on a project related to diasporas and their political participation. She is currently completing a research project focused on the role of emotions within the border system with Babes-Bolyai University in Romania.
Anna Rius
Researcher in inequalities, she has worked for more than 25 years on cooperation and education projects for development. With a Master’s degree in Public Health and a PhD in Biomedicine, she coordinates the Institute’s projects.
Victoria Muñoz
Afro-Catalan and student of Law + Political Science and Public Management. She has worked from Afro-feminist cooperatives in project management and works collectively from activism. Thus, her areas of work are political anti-racism, Afro-feminism, Pan-Africanism, institutional violence, the political system and Human Rights.
INCIDENCE PROJECTS
Imma Sañé
Graduate in Political Science, Master in International Relations and Diploma in Gender and Development. Since 2005 I have worked in the field of cooperation in international organizations such as the Delegation of the European Commission in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. From 2007 to 2012 I worked at “UN Women”, the United Nations agency for gender equality and the empowerment of women, first in Ecuador and then in Colombia. Currently, I work as Head of Human Rights and International Relations at the Council of Catalan Lawyers.
Corina Tulbure
Researcher and journalist. Her areas of work include borders, racism, social control systems and mobilizations of undocumented migrants. As a journalist, she has covered forms of forced displacement, migration control and political processes in Eastern Europe (2013-2020). She obtained a PhD in 2016 at the University of Barcelona and has collaborated with PRIO and the University of Oslo on a project related to diasporas and their political participation. Currently, she is completing a research project focused on the role of emotions within the border system with Babes-Bolyai University in Romania.
TEAM AFRICA
Marcel Monteil
A graduate in Communications and head of the Institute of Inequalities in Senegal, he has more than 20 years of experience in cooperation projects in his country and in sub-Saharan Africa.
LATIN AMERICAN TEAM
Astrid Villalobos
Organizational document
Memories
- MUJERES PALESTINAS: EL ALMA DE LA RESISTENCIA
- RESISTENCIAS A LAS VIOLENCIAS MACHISTAS EN TIEMPOS DE PANDEMIA EN SENEGAL 2020
- Relato del Proyecto: Islamofobia con ojos de mujeres
- Memoria actividades y económica 2022
- Memoria actividades y económica 2021
- Memoria actividades 2018
- Memoria actividades 2017
- Memoria actividades 2016
- Memoria actividades 2015
- Memoria actividades 2014