Feminist Peace Network

Statement from Ruta Pacifica de las Mujeres (Bogota, Columbia):

Women in Black
DEMAND NO MORE VIOLENCE

We urge that Truth, Justice and Reparation be a reality and not an ethereal treaty.
We demand the Humanitarian Accord as an indispensable step in the building of peace in the nation.

With the demand for the cessation of violence against women and forced displacement caused by actions of the armed groups, Women in Black request Truth, Justice and Reparation.

“We are tired of the various manifestations of violence and do not want more Colombians to live through the savagery of war. Our silent protest calls out for a cessation of violent acts, no to violence against women and no to displacement,” said Maria Eugenia Sanchez, Coordinator of Ruta Pacifica de las Mujeres – Bogota.

Women in Black express themselves the last Tuesday of each month at the same time in 9 different cities of the country: Bucaramanga, Cali, Cartagena, Medellin, Pereira, Popayan, Quibdo, Puerto Caicedo-Putumayo and Bogota. We use black as symbolic of mourning for the women, children, daughters, sons and husbands who are suffering and have suffered violence.Likewise, our protest is in silence because words cannot explain the horrors of war. At the same time, silence denounces the absence of voices of women in history.

“We have always supported an ethic of non-violence and have made every effort with the goal that in the negotiation of the armed conflict the urgency of a Humanitarian Accord be considered, along with a cease-fire, respect for human rights and International Humanitarian Law. As female victims of the armed conflict, survivors of war, and peace builders coming from all sectors and regions of the country, we have taken on protest and mobilization as forms of resistance and social and political action,” affirmed Esperanza Ramirez, member of the Women in Black of Bogota.

“We women do not bear sons and daughters for war”

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