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Colombia has been in an ongoing conflict since 1964, currently the country is stable however fighting between the FARC, Paramilitaries, Government Troops and Drug traffickers remains prevalent, especially in the rural areas.

Colombia currently has over 3 million Internally Displaced People (IDPs) (IDMC, 2011), the highest of any country in the world.  Many of these people have fled rural areas due to the fighting and are now living in poverty in urban slums.

In June 2011 the Colombian Government announced a program entitled the Colombian Victims Law which envisages the restitution of lands lost as well as financial compensation and reparations for people forced from their homes due to the conflict. (Ley de Víctimas y Restitución de Tierras, Ministerio del Interior y de Justicia, June 2011) 

  • Colombia does not have a National Action Plan on Security Council Resolution 1325 (SCR 1325)
  • Colombia is not a UN Peacekeeping mandated country
  • Colombia is party to the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Violence Against Women

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  • May 3, 2013 (the wip)
    COLOMBIA: "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. The talks began in October of last year in Oslo, Norway and have continued in Havana ever since. “No Justice? No Peace!” Never has this belief been more real to women peace activists in Colombia, who, despite the fact that not a single woman is at the negotiating table in Havana, are insisting on justice for achieving real and lasting peace in Colombia. Women peace activists in Colombia are putting their demands for peace into action through grassroots justice initiatives.
  • January 24, 2013 (Colombia Politics)
    COLOMBIA: Colombia´s First Woman President? Colombian Conservative and former Uribe defence minister, Marta Lucía Ramírez on Wednesday announced her intention to run in next year´s presidential elections.
  • January 8, 2013 (Insight on Conflict)
    COLOMBIA: Women's Struggle for Peace in Colombia Betty Puerto Barrera is a Colombian peace activist. Her peace work has focused particularly on women and the struggle to end all forms of violence that are suffered by women in Colombia. She currently forms part of one of Colombia's oldest women's organisational processes, the People's Women's Organisation, and forms part of a nationwide platform promoting a negotiated solution to the armed conflict. In mark of 25th November, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, we spoke with Betty about her work in Colombia and her experience as a woman activist in the struggle for peace.
  • November 16, 2012 (Christian Science Monitor)
    COLOMBIA: What's the role of Afro-Colombian and Colombian women in the FARC peace talks? As the Colombian Government prepares to meet with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Havana, Cuba, later this month for the second phase of the peace talks, the role of women – and in particular Afrodescendant women – in guaranteeing a successful peace effort requires support from the international community.
  • November 14, 2012 (Miami Herald)
    COLOMBIA: Rights Study Highlights Vulnerability of Colombia's Displaced Girls and Women Ana Angelica Bello, 45, was coming out of the Ministry of Justice in 2009 when two men bundled her into a car, put a gun against her head and sexually assaulted her. They told her she was being punished for her work as an activist for the nation's displaced population.

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