Women In Colombia

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Throughout history and over the last years, women have strongly intended to play central roles in addressing major aspects of the world’s most urgent problems such as global poverty, health and climate change. Women have been in a continuous effort to promote health, educational and environmental sustainability programs. In exchange, women are facing countless obstacles to ensure gender equality. Colombia has until recently been highly affected by decades of violent armed conflicts. Today, peace processes are having considerable success on solving these conflicts, but several social problems still persist. One of these problems is gender inequality that systematically hampers the ability

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