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October 3, 2019
'Based in hatred': Violence against women standing in Colombia's elections

The body of mayoral candidate Karina García was found shot and incinerated in her car in the Cauca department of southern Colombia, 

April 12, 2019
Colombia : In spite of the conflict & continued violence, disappearances, femicide, women weave the social fabric of communities for leadership, resilience, peace

In Colombia’s southern province of Putumayo, a group of women is stitching together social fabric despite an alarming number of ongoing threats and acts of violence against them.

August 17, 2018
Colombia see summer of surge for women in politics

Last week, the new President of Colombia, Iván Duque, swore in his vice president, Marta Lucía Ramírez.

She is Colombia’s first female vice president.

July 30, 2018
Colombia shatters glass ceiling with gender-equal cabinet

Colombia is to get its first female interior minister with women heading other key ministries including justice and energy

By Anastasia Moloney

Political finance and the equal participation of women in Colombia: a situation analysis

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December 8, 2016

Political finance and the equal participation of women in Colombia: a situation analysis

July 13, 2016
OpenDemocracy defends grassroots women crisis responders

OpenDemocracy has published the following report in defense of grassroots women crisis responders.

June 24, 2016
Statement by UN Women's Executive Director on the agreement between the Government of Colombia and the FARC

Yesterday’s agreement between the g

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Women in Colombia
May 9, 2013
No Justice? No Peace! The Women Absent from Colombia's Peace Talks

“No Justice? No Peace!” Never has this chant, which I have heard so often at anti-war rallies, felt so real to me as during the last few months observing the ongoing peace negotiations between the Colombian government and the FARC guerrillas.