Bogotá, September 13, 2024. The Colectivo de Pensamiento y Acción Mujeres Paz y Seguridad, made up of 38 organizations, networks, platforms, think tanks, NGOs, work collectives and independent women leaders, with presence and work in 12 departments of Colombia, we publicly urge the National Government and the ELN to listen to the voices coming from all corners of this country that are calling for dialogue to achieve “a transformative, sustainable and lasting peace”: a Complete Peace. Dialogue is a magnificent, historic, hopeful and profoundly political act.
As Women Peacebuilders, with the legitimacy that our work gives us, with the strength that our diversity represents and from our being as women who constitute this country from an active citizenship, we promote and support, from our Founding Pact, “The Ethical Pact for a Country in Peace” the dialogues that take care of human beings and the very life of the planet.
Our ethical mandate calls us to make a strong statement at this moment. We believe that there is no time to lose. That there is political will on the part of the government and we trust in the will of the ELN to end this conflict and move towards peace. We believe that they will not let us down.
The 28 Agreements signed at the Table of Dialogue for Peace are without a doubt a historic fact and an unprecedented advance in the search for peace for Colombia. We encourage the parties to honor their word, to not leave the table, to quickly unfreeze the dialogues and to agree again on the ceasefire, recognizing the road already travelled, and those of us who work day by day for peace.
Peace is the right of everyone, it is an aspiration and a yearning of the country. Pain, anguish and fear already overwhelm us, making our work as peace actors even more difficult, however, we will not give up in the search for peace, favouring the path of dialogue and consensus.
We bring our accumulated, experience and collective responsibility to the service of this process and we continue with the hopeful conviction of a future in which guns are not the way to deal with our differences. And you, for your part, the dialogue and agreements that we deserve as a society.
#DescongelenLosDiálogosYa
More information: mujerespazyseguridadcolectivo@gmail.com
Signed by:
- Nodos del Colectivo: Nodo Guajira, Nodo Magdalena, Nodo Montes de María, Nodo Antioquia, Nodo Valle del Cauca, Nodo Cundinamarca. Bogotá, Nodo Tolima, Nodo Cauca,
- Nodo Caquetá, Nodo Nariño, Nodo Santander, Nodo Boyacá, Nodo Mujeres independientes constructoras de paz.
- Organizaciones que integran el Colectivo
- Asociación Regional de Mujeres Amor
- Asociación Codo a Codo
- Asociación Tierra de Esperanza
- Asociación de mujeres víctimas productoras de Villa del Carmen.
- Corporación Casa de la Mujer de Suba
- Colectivo Mujeres Jóvenes Constructoras de Paz de Buenaventura (MJCPAZ)
- Colectivo Mujeres Pedagogía y Paz
- Coordinación Nacional de Mujeres Indígenas de Colombia CONAMIC.
- Corporación Colibrí Tejiendo Territorio
- Corporación de Investigación y acción social y económica (CIASE).
- Corporación Hypatia
- Conspirando por la paz
- Fundación Escuelas de Paz
- Fundación Colombiana Sueños de Equidad y paz Fucolpaz
- Red: Grupo Ecuménico de Mujeres Constructoras de Paz (GemPaz)
- Mujer: Diáspora y retorno
- Mujeres consagradas Wayú
- Red de mujeres del Alto Ricaurte
- Red de mujeres comunales y comunitarias de Palmira
- Red de mujeres jóvenes constructoras de paz de Santa Marta
- Red de Mujeres Jóvenes Constructoras de Paz de Villa de Leyva
- Red de voceras y voceros Párala ya, nada justifica la violencia contra las mujeres.
- Red Mujeres Jóvenes de la provincia de Vélez
- Red de mujeres para el empoderamiento político y económico de la provincia de Vélez
- Vallecaucanas en confluencia
- Grupo de mujeres independientes constructoras de paz
- Ana Paola Tinoco
- Andrea Juliana Correa González
- Beatriz Ramírez David
- Belia Bustamante Garzón
- Clemencia López Ríos
- Fabiola Calvo Ocampo
- Laura Marcela Sánchez
- Jasmín Muñoz Cárdenas
- Luz Dary Ospina Román
- Luz Marina Ramírez Hernández
- Migdonia Rueda