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Articles with keyword "Colombia"
Creating a Space for Justice in Colombia
Posted on: Thursday, November 10, 2011
Keywords: Colombia, Latin America, Women's Human Rights, Sexual Rights, Combating Violence Against Women
Project Update: Symbolic Tribunal in Colombia
Women Spinning Life: A Place for My Home
Posted on: Thursday, October 13, 2011
Keywords: Colombia, Latin America, Women's Human Rights
We just received an update from our sister organization LIMPAL in Colombia, and we want to share the news with you. LIMPAL is a community-based women’s organization working to promote social justice for women who have been...
Ensuring Human Rights in Colombia: Concluding Observations from the UN Human Rights Committee
Posted on: Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Keywords: Colombia, Peace Building, Human Rights Advocacy, Latin America and the Caribbean, UN
Following MADRE’s Shadow Report on Colombia and presentation at the UN Human Rights Committee last month, the Committee released its observations to the Colombian state. In the observations, the Committee expressed its deep concern at the persistence of serious human...
MADRE Presents on Colombia Before the UN Human Rights Committee
Posted on: Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Keywords: Colombia, Peace Building, Human Rights Advocacy, Latin America and the Caribbean, UN
MADRE's Lisa Davis was in Geneva last week for the UN Human Rights Committee's review of Colombia's human rights record. As part of the review process, MADRE presented a shadow report that we wrote with a coalition of Colombian human...
Video: Born Into War - Child Soldiers in Colombia
Posted on: Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Keywords: Colombia, Peace Building, Human Rights Advocacy, Latin America and the Caribbean
MADRE sister organization Taller de Vida provides life-changing support to former child soldiers and children at risk of becoming child soldiers in Colombia. Watch the video to find out more.
Testimony of a Former Child Soldier in Colombia: One Young Girl's Story
Posted on: Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Keywords: Colombia, Peace Building, Human Rights Advocacy, Latin America and the Caribbean, Profile
Thousands of children, some as young as eight years old, are being used as soldiers in Colombia's armed conflict. Through our local partner, Taller de Vida, we provide trauma counseling, art therapy, and recreational programs to young people who have been uprooted from their homes by war and poverty.
Colombia's Election Results Lack Promise of Change
Posted on: Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Keywords: Colombia, Peace Building, Human Rights Advocacy, Latin America and the Caribbean
On Sunday, Juan Manuel Santos was elected to succeed Álvaro Uribe as president of Colombia with 69% of the vote in a runoff election. Only 45% of the population participated in the election, as many who supported the left-wing candidate...
Ending Gender-Based Violence in Colombia
Posted on: Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Keywords: Colombia, Peace Building, Human Rights Advocacy, Latin America and the Caribbean
LIMPAL, MADRE's sister organization in Colombia, recently published there their May 2010 bulletin. You can read the original here. Summaries are below.International League15 years after the 4th World Conference on Women met in Beijing, civil society organizations are calling for...
Stories of our Sisters 2010
Posted on: Monday, April 26, 2010
Keywords: Haiti, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Guatemala, Colombia, Palestine, Iraq, Sudan
Stories of our Sisters 2010 This month, MADRE published Stories of our Sisters 2010, our Spring/Summer Newsletter. Below you can read the stories from our sisters. To read the newsletter as a whole, check out the newsletter online. If you...
MADRE Programs Combating Violence Against Women in Armed Conflicts
Posted on: Thursday, March 4, 2010
Keywords: Combating Violence Against Women, Afghanistan, Sudan, Colombia, Guatemala, Palestine, Iraq
Guatemala In the past decade, nearly 4,000 women and young girls have been murdered in Guatemala. Many of them, including girls as young as 10, were tortured and raped, their bodies left in public places. As a result, women have...
Colombia: Protecting Children of War, Project Update
Posted on: Monday, October 19, 2009
Keywords: Colombia, Latin America & Caribbean, Peace Building
In July 2009, Miguel Macias, a MADRE volunteer and youth media producer, returned to Bogota to conduct workshops with the youth of Taller de Vida. For two weeks, Miguel worked with 15 students on writing for the web, photography, journalism,...
Stories of our Sisters
Posted on: Monday, July 13, 2009
Keywords: Afghanistan, Colombia, Iraq, Kenya, Nicaragua, Peru, Sudan, Peace Building, Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women
Iraq: Art Action for Peace “The US gave us a government that plunged us into civil war,” Yanar Mohammed says. “But in Baghdad, there were brave Sunni and Shiite youngsters who refused to hate each other.” “With MADRE’s help,...
