The Network’s declaration went on to say, "We are also alarmed at the fundamentalist and family-oriented influences in our States, which are mostly lay countries, as these are working against sexual and reproductive rights and pose a threat to the lives and health of women of all ages … This state of affairs in the region is fostering the sustained increase in femicide, and this is happening not just among couples but in all unequal power relations between men and women, and is especially serious with regard to adolescent women. This situation is also generating an increase in sexual violence, sexual exploitation and the white slave trade.
"Igualmente nos alarma el posicionamiento de enfoques fundamentalistas y familistas insertados en nuestros Estados mayoritariamente laicos que atentan contra los derechos sexuales y reproductivos vulnerando la vida y la salud de mujeres de todas las edades", agrega la declaración de la Red. "Esta situación favorece en la región el aumento sostenido de los femicidios que se producen no solamente en las relaciones de pareja, sino en todas las relaciones de poder desigual entre hombres y mujeres, afectando especialmente a mujeres adolescentes, situación que genera además un incremento en la violencia sexual, la explotación sexual y la trata de mujeres.