Colombian Women demand their rights and propose their own agenda in the peace process
Colombian Women End Meeting With Peace Proposals
Bogota, May 15 (Prensa Latina) More than 2,000 women joined their efforts to demand their rights and propose their own agenda in the peace process.
During the 2nd National and International Meeting of Women for Peace and Dignity, held in the locality of Florencia, in the southern department of Chaqueta, nearly 80 social organizations of 17 departments reached the conclusion that it is necessary to change the country's development model for achieving peace.
"We want to participate in the negotiation table, that we are heard and we reach a Constituent with social justice, Maria Mora, one of the delegates that participated in the meeting, which took place in one of the most affected regions by the armed, political and social conflict for the last 50 years, told Telesur.
The meeting was comprised by three days of debates in 12 thematic tables, where women collected different proposals that will be sent to the negotiation table of the Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army, with venue in Cuba since November 2012.
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Their first meeting was at the end of April 2013.