Lorena Gutiérrez

This podcast is a sound compilation of the life stories of four women leaders who have worked for the empowerment, protection, and mitigation of violence against women in the municipality of Soacha, in Cundinamarca. Through their individual and collective processes, Clemencia, Zoraya, Nubia, and Vanessa talk about their perspectives on social leadership, the struggles they have faced in articulating the Social Movement of Women and the construction of a public policy of women and gender in their territory.

Three indigenous women from the north of Cauca –a leader, an ex-combatant, and a member of an indigenous Cabildo– narrate their struggle for women’s rights and their efforts to build peace in an indigenous context. It is a story of resistance amid resistance.

This podcast shows women’s struggle in this part of Colombia, where the implementation of the Peace Agreement is still in its infancy and where there are many challenges between ex-combatants and indigenous Nasa people. Likewise, it shows from rural territories how women are raising their voices to change the history of a region affected by war.