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The Princess of Silence
Racism an Ongoing Violence
Video: War Machines
Press Release – August, 2021
Footprints: the indelible mark of racism
This is how poverty is caused
Black/ Afro-descendant women, between the sweet and the bitter
Press Release – April, 2021
Development, conflict and racism threaten the lives of black women
Documents
‘Territory is everything’: Afro-colombian communities, human rights and illegal land grabs
In Colombia, the struggle over land rights often pits the cultural and economic interests of indigenous and marginalized peoples against the governments that are supposed
Understanding threats against afro-descendant women human rights defenders: re-envisioning security
Colombia has the highest rate of assassinations of human rights defenders in Latin America, and women defending Afrodescendant and Indigenous territories are particularly at risk.
Third party at the table: afrocolombian women’s struggle for peace and inclusion
August 24, 2016 marked the end of the nearly sixty-year-long conflict between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias
Making rights a reality: access to health care for afro-colombian survivors of conflict-related sexual violence
In 2008, Colombia enacted Law 1257, which states that “women’s rights are human rights,” and that women’s rights include “the right to a dignified life,”
In the crosshairs: centering local responses to SGBV in afro-colombian communities
The demobilization of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (“FARC”) since November 2016 has created a power vacuum, as multiple forces vie for areas previously
Community Hearings
Community Hearings are spaces that allow to make visible and denounce the violence committed against black/Afro-descendant women from their diverse identities, to generate strategies that allow for inciting prevention, protection, attention and integral reparation before local and national authorities as mechanisms of international justice.