El movimiento de mujeres de Palmira, Colombia (2004-2016)resistir, persistir y avanzar

Résumé

Throughout history, women's movements in Latin America have sought to reverse the inequality conditions affecting women in the region, taking into account the political, social and economic particularities of their contexts. In Colombia, the women’s participation forms respond to several violent acts that affect both urban and rural communities in the country, to violence within the national territory that are not reduce to those related to the armed conflict, but in this country also remains structural and cultural violence that are affecting all Colombian women.Although the Colombian women's movement has been characterized by different collective actions against the dire consequences of the armed conflict on bodies and women’s existences, this research handles the work of the women's movement in Palmira (Valle del Cauca, Colombia), and their collective actions that seek to influence formal political participation spaces to ensure the effective fulfilment of women's rights. The Palmira women's movement has a daily work in private, urban and rural action spaces from which it has managed to change the way of doing politics in its municipality and even has influenced the formulation of Gender Equity public policy for the women of the municipality...