Women Built This City. Colombia's City of Women: a safe haven from civil war & sexual viole

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In Colombia, there is a unique place called the City of Women – a hundred homes belonging to the women who built them themselves. They are among more than seven million Colombians, half of them women, who have been forcibly displaced by the violent civil war that raged in the country for more than fifty years. “We, women, always suffer. The army comes; they rape us. Guerillas come, they rape us, other militarised groups come, they do the same,” says internally displaced, Maritza Esther. They fled their homes to escape atrocities perpetrated by all sides, but calm remains a distant dream for many. Those living in the City of Women and human rights activists fighting for justice for the displaced women are regularly threatened and killed.

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