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In Colombia, Female Ex-Combatants Still Face Risk of Stigmatization

March 13, 2018

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 and the resulting agenda on women, peace and security has called for more inclusive peace processes, stressing that women’s specific needs and experiences should be taken into account during and after peace negotiations. Yet the role of female ex-combatants in peace processes remains understudied and somewhat neglected in …

Disarmament, Gender-Based Violence, Women

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Despite Peace Talks, Colombians Are Still Terrified of the FARC

August 31, 2015

by Johanna Higgs

MEDELLIN, Colombia — “There is conflict in every single country in the world,” a 16-year-old former combatant from the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, or FARC, rebel group said at a rehabilitation center for demobilized child soldiers here in Colombia’s third-largest city. Yet when it was pointed out that there was no conflict in …

Child Soldiers, Human Rights, Latin America, Women

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A Former Child Soldier Grows Up in Colombia

August 7, 2012

by Amy Lieberman

BOGOTÁ – Jesús Martínez has money on his mind: his monthly budget of $250, his $75 rent and the $7,500 he will soon receive from the government. Eighteen-year-old Martínez, which is not his real name, never touched a peso until he was 16 and fled the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or the …

Child Soldiers, Security Council

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UN Security Council to Study Child Soldier Use in Colombia

June 28, 2012

by Amy Lieberman

BOGOTÁ — Two longstanding Colombian armed groups are cited in the United Nations secretary-general’s annual “list of shame” released this month, enumerating parties who use children in armed conflict, among other related human-rights abuses. The country’s two major antigovernment guerrilla groups, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or Farc, and the National Liberation Army (Eln), …

Child Soldiers, Human Rights, Security Council

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In Colombia, Female Ex-Combatants Still Face Risk of Stigmatization

Despite Peace Talks, Colombians Are Still Terrified of the FARC

A Former Child Soldier Grows Up in Colombia

UN Security Council to Study Child Soldier Use in Colombia

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