MOCOA, Colombia—The wall exterior the small airport in Puerto Assis, within the state of Putumayo within the Colombian Amazon, is adorned with a mural depicting 5 ladies’s faces. This and Putumayo’s 5 different “murals of reality,” as they’re identified, function poignant reminders of the ladies killed in Colombia’s greater than half-century armed battle with the FARC Marxist insurgency and different armed teams.
However whereas the battle with the FARC ended with a peace settlement in 2016, violence towards ladies in Putumayo persists, entangled in as we speak’s conflicts over the environmental degradation brought on by extractive actions reminiscent of mining, oil manufacturing, cattle ranching and coca cultivation.
Within the face of those risks, ladies have typically come collectively to advocate for his or her rights, security, political participation and financial autonomy, in addition to to guard the land. Below the umbrella of the Ladies Weavers of Life Alliance of Putumayo, a community of 65 ladies’s organizations throughout the state, they create sustainable growth tasks, conservation initiatives, academic campaigns and a supportive feminine group.
