What did the Meeting achieve?
After four days of intense work, the wonrien who took part in the Meeting decided:
- To hold the Second Latin-American and Caribbean Feminist Meeting in Lima, Peru, in 1983.
- From this year onwards, to set aside the 25th November as World Day of "No More Violence Against Women".
- In regard to the problems and specific conditions existing in the countries of the continent and those relating to the situation of women, it was decided, at the political level
— To demand that international organisations, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva and the International Court in The Hague undertake a continuing investigation of the violation of human rights, which is a daily occurrence in almost all Latin American and Caribbean countries.
— To reject all forms of intervention, direct or indirect, on the part of imperialism and of the international corporations in the internal affairs of the continent.
— To support the struggles for social, political and economic liberation of our peoples and of the peoples of the Third World from their oppressors, both internal and external.
— To show special solidarity with the people of El Salvador in their struggle for national liberation in these historic moments.
— To demand that the right of minority and indigenous groups to their own ways of life and cultural identity be respected.
— To denounce the fact that women political prisoners have been subjected not only to the brutality meeted out to political prisoners in general, but have, in addition, been sexually abused and blackmailed through abuse of their children into surrendering or making statements. To denounce the fact that many of them had to give birth in prison and to go through pregnancy in the worst possible conditions of malnutrition. - In the domain of sexuality and contraception, the Meeting condemned
— Sexual violence against women
— Rape
— Prostitution for economic reasons or as a means of survival
— Sexual molesting of women at work
— The fact that women have to resort to abortion as a means of birth control
— Contraception without full prior information
— The absence of serious, non-sexist research on contraceptive measures that would give 100 percent effectiveness without harmful side-effects
— Forced sterilization of women on our continent
— Population control policies which impose on us decisions determining family size in disregard of our right to decide for ourselves how many children we want. 
In the field of employment, the Meeting denounced
— Women's unemployment
— Sexist inequality of earnings
— Discrimination against women in employment, including loss of employment for reasons of age, marital status, or free exercise of their right to motherhood
— Lack of recognition for housework as work
— The double working-day of women in gainful employment
— The wretched conditions in which women in poorer sections have to do domestic work
— lack of proper equipment, of public services, etc.
— Lack of child nurseries, owing to which women cannot do to their jobs with peace of mind
— Transnational and national corporations, which make profits by exploiting part-time and fulltime office workers hired on temporary contracts
— The exploitation to which women in free trade zones are subjected, and the working conditions they are forced to accept.- In respect of social rights and social security, the Meeting denounced: — The lack of social security for housewives and their families, their health, and lack of provision
for education, and housing
— The lack of implementation of legislation protecting mothers and children
— The lack of proper conditions and care in the maternity and children's sections of hospitals
— The lack of specific benefits for working women, to help them with the heavy burden of housework and with the care and raising of their children
— The difficulties or even in some cases the impossibility of obtaining a divorce and of freely choosing one's partner
— The abusive practices of institutions which impose a psychiatric interpretation on problems that women have to confront in their daily life. - In the prevailing ideology and education, the Meeting denounced:
— The subordination of women as being mentally and physically helpless
— The lack of access to training and opportunities for women
— The confinement of women to unskilled or semi-skilled jobs
— The social pressure exerted on women who reject the traditional role that is imposed on them
— The ideology which alienates women, preventing them from becoming aware of their oppression
— The use of the mass media to alienate women and to devalue their self-image.