WUNRN
Internal Displacement Monitoring
Centre - IDMC
COLOMBIA - RIGHTS & VOICES OF
INTERNALLY DISPLACED WOMEN
Women represent between 49 and 58% of the total displaced population in
Women informed the (UN) Representative during his mission to
Displaced women and girls are often in especially vulnerable situation and
should be granted adequate protection and treatment according to Guiding
Principles 4, 18 and 23.
These Principles shall be applied without discrimination of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion or belief, political or other opinion, national, ethnic or social origin, legal or social status, age, disability, property, birth, or on any other similar criteria.
Life here is very difficult. For
example, I feel here as if my wings had been clipped. I can’t take flight,
because I feel less ... it’s not that I’m incapable of doing things, but that I
feel very insecure. I used to be a very open person. I participated in
meetings. I was a person that was invited, that spoke, shouted, laughed. I’m
not the same anymore. Why? The feelings, the courage: all that has receded,
it’s disappeared. I can’t express how it’s disappeared in me. It’s as if my
courage had gone to sleep or had been taken away from me.
Blanca
More Women Testimonies:
Life story of Lilia
Life story of Leydi
Life story of Mileinis
Life story of Ana
Dilia
Life story of Sofía
Life story of Blanca
(1) Report of the Representative of the Secretary-General on the human rights
of internally displaced persons, Walter Kälin, Addendum: Mission to Colombia,
A/HRC/4/38/Add.3, 24 paragraph 15.