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  1. “We hope that the Council will continue to urge full compliance with the agreement, with particular focus on the ethnic dimension and the integral gender approach to the entire agreement so that we can finally have a better society in Colombia. As indigenous women, we have said that violence must be rejected wherever it may be, we must protect our territories, people can always count on us for peace, never for war, and we do not want to continue giving birth to children for war.”

    2021-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8879 (2021) · source

  2. “We continue to opt for peace in our territories and to demand that the national Government fully comply with the peace agreement. As a young indigenous woman, I believe that the Government must be able to guarantee the fundamental right to life of every woman and man. That is where the Security Council must focus its efforts. Likewise, we must also support and strengthen the initiatives that are already being implemented at the territorial level. Support must be given to forming indigenous and Afro-Colombian women leaders and encouraging constructive ventures and projects to address the economic inequality facing us. All of that is set out in the peace agreement. We hope that the international community and the Security Council will continue to support us —the indigenous communities, women and young people of Colombia — in this process.”

    2021-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8879 (2021) · source

  3. “Similarly, we have also been strengthening our own mechanisms for self-protection and territorial control through such processes as the indigenous guards, of which more than 40 per cent of participants are women. That exercise has raised awareness about the need to care for the territory and search for peace through dialogue, while clearly rejecting armed groups and violence in general. We have been working with schools and colleges to train authoritative leaders and to inculcate a culture of peace in primary and secondary education. We have also made progress in building trust and understanding in our territories by promoting respect for diversity and differences and even establishing intercultural round tables for dialogue.”

    2021-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8879 (2021) · source

  4. “I was admitted to the emergency room with little chance, but I managed to survive. However, what happened weakened the leadership process in my community, and the leadership process of indigenous women has been exposed to intimidation, as they are afraid of being threatened, persecuted or falling victim to the same ordeal I experienced. Despite the situation, in general, women, especially indigenous women, have been developing peacebuilding initiatives from the ground up in our territories. We have been working to raise awareness of the need to support the peaceful resolution of conflicts, in conjunction with institutions and the community as a whole, with a differentiated approach when it is imperative to support women, children, young people and other victims in the context of armed conflict or other forms of violence.”

    2021-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8879 (2021) · source

  5. “Such murders have many repercussions for the families, communities and organizations that the victims led. Above all, they also lead to instability and intimidation with regard to the processes that we as women have struggled to achieve despite the many constraints and threats. Our participation as women in peacebuilding must enjoy the necessary security guarantees and conditions if we are to carry out our work with a differentiated approach. In exercising the right to social protest, I myself was almost killed on 9 May in an incident in which armed civilians shot at the demonstration in the presence of the members of public security forces in Cali. I was shot in the lower part of my abdomen. When I arrived at the hospital, I had no vital signs and was in shock.”

    2021-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8879 (2021) · source

  6. “Women who resist all of that must choose either to stay in the territory despite the threats or to be displaced from our territories to live in the cities, which may lead to experiencing other forms of violence and vulnerability. In this war, the women leaders who oppose the system continue to be killed. More than nine indigenous women leaders have been murdered this year defending their territory in Cauca department — a risk similar to that taken by women leaders in other territories. Those murdered women were governors, indigenous guards, spokespersons, wives, mothers and daughters. This morning another indigenous female colleague, named María Stefania Muñoz, and her niece were murdered in the municipality of Buenos Aires in Cauca — in addition to other colleagues who were killed in July.”

    2021-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8879 (2021) · source

  7. “In our territories, boys and girls as young as 13 are being forcibly and ideologically recruited into the armed ranks of these groups. Likewise, young people and women are being recruited or co-opted across the entire chain of the drug-trafficking business. In some parts of Cauca, recruitment has exceeded 600 children and young people in the past two months, for example, in the municipality of Cantón. Many of those children and young people are female. Women are also co-opted into work preparing meals, but, above all, what is most degrading is that they are co-opted into sexual enslavement or prostitution. In addition, the presence of armed groups in our territories represents a direct threat to indigenous women, owing to the many cases of harassment and sexual abuse that we have been victims of.”

    2021-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8879 (2021) · source

  8. “In Cauca, the non-compliance with the Peace Agreement on such issues as rural reform and the substitution of illicit crops, inter alia, has led to an increase in the cultivation of illicit crops there, and, in turn, an increase in the reconfiguration of armed groups, dissidents and others who are fighting for control of the territories and the drug trafficking business through war exercises that are bleeding our communities dry. I remember as a child, in my territory, my grandmother always took me to pick coca leaves. As Council members know, for my people, coca is a sacred plant. Today I see with sadness and powerlessness how something so sacred has been misused so as to generate violence and conflict in the country. The armed conflict continues to rage in many parts of Colombia.”

    2021-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8879 (2021) · source

  9. “Although we see the laying down of arms by the now-defunct FARC- EP armed group and the entrepreneurial initiatives for the reincorporation of members of that group as positive, compliance with the Peace Agreement has been minimal on such points as comprehensive rural reform, the substitution of illicitly used crops and the full implementation of the “ethnic chapter” of the Peace Agreement and its gender focus. This non-compliance increases the conditions of inequality and violence in the territories, especially for women and young people. It is women and young people whose rights are being violated the most.”

    2021-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8879 (2021) · source

  10. “Sadly, that feeling lasted for only a few months after the signing of the agreement. In territories like mine, in the municipality of Caldono, which the Security Council visited in 2019, we were eagerly awaiting the laying down of arms and the longed-for peace. We had always experienced the onslaught of war directly in our territories, in our own homes and even in our own bodies. The Peace Agreement gave us hope by proposing structural solutions to the problem of social inequality in Colombia and by addressing important issues for indigenous women, such as access to land. However, the current situation of the implementation of the Peace Agreement in Colombia is worrying.”

    2021-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8879 (2021) · source

  11. “I send you my warmest greetings, Mr. President. My name is Daniela Soto Pinto. I am a woman from the Nasa, an indigenous people in the municipality of Caldono, in the Department of Cauca. I am part of the youth and women’s leadership processes of the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca, and, since I was a teenager, I have been working for human rights and the rights of indigenous peoples to be vindicated. Greetings to all present in the Security Council Chamber today. I offer particular thanks to the Kenyan ambassador for his invitation to join this meeting. I would like to start by commenting that when the talks to reach a peace agreement between the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP) and the Colombian Government began, there was a sense of hope in the country.”

    2021-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8879 (2021) · source