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ES On access to economic, social and cultural rights for LGBTIQ+ people in Colombia
In the framework of the review that the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) will carry out on the Colombian State regarding the fulfilment of the obligations established in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), Colombia Diversa presents the main obstacles faced by lesbian women, gay men, bisexual people, bisexuals, transgender people and transsexuals [...].
Colombia Diversa receives decoration from Congress
Good morning. It is a great honour for me to receive this recognition. On behalf of Colombia Diversas, its board of directors, its work team and all the students, volunteers, donors and all the people who have joined this common cause of making Colombia a more inclusive and diverse Colombia. Thanks to the Senate [...]
SJP recognises bias-based violence against LGBTIQ+ boys and girls
In a landmark decision, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) has recognised the specific affectations suffered by LGBTIQ+ children within the ranks of the FARC-EP. In the Order of Determination of Facts and Conduct of Macro Case 07, which investigates the recruitment and use of children by the FARC-EP, the JEP has [...]
Intervention by Colombia Diversa before the Security Council
Greetings Excellencies. Thank you for the opportunity to brief you today on the situation in Colombia. I am Marcela Sanchez, Executive Director of Colombia Diversa. I come from a country scarred by war but hopeful for peace, a country where the organisation I lead has been working with the feminist movement for twenty years to defend the rights of women in Colombia.
Colombia Diversa's intervention in the Security Council meeting
Greetings Excellencies. Thank you for the opportunity to brief you today on the situation in Colombia. I am Marcela Sánchez, Executive Director of Colombia Diversa. I come from a country scarred by war yet hopeful for peace, a country where the organization that I lead has been working with the feminist movement for twenty years [...]
We are very close to achieving a Women, Peace and Security Agenda Action Plan.
We continue to advance in the participatory construction of the National Action Plan of Resolution 1325, with feminist and women's organisations The Alliance 1325, made up of fourteen feminist and women's organisations, including Colombia Diversa, delivered to representatives of the national government and international cooperation actors five technical documents with contributions and recommendations for the design, formulation and implementation of the National Action Plan of Resolution 1325.
Justice moves forward for lesbian mother who could not register her unborn daughter in Venezuela
By means of a tutela action, Colombia Diversa succeeded in getting the 36th Family Court of Bogotá to recognise that the minor had the right to legal personality and to have a family, and ordered the Registrar's Office to issue the civil registry of birth with the registration of the two mothers of the child.
32 recommendations to the SJP were delivered by the Gender Litigation Alliance
The Gender Litigation Alliance submitted 32 recommendations to the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (SJP) as a contribution to the strengthening of macro-cases in the search for justice in crimes of sexual violence, reproductive violence and other crimes related to the sexuality of the victim. The recommendations are structured into five [...]
Colombia Diversa's intervention at the UN
Excellencies, Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield and colleagues, good afternoon, today I will demonstrate that gender and sexuality are at the heart of the Security Council's own business, because peace must have space for all. I work for Colombia Diversa, the NGO leading the social movement for LGBT people in Colombia. Thanks to [...]
Queering Women, Peace and Security
Lesbian, bisexual, trans and queer women haven't been properly included in peacebuilding processes around the world. Although civil society has pushed for the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security agenda, it hasn't always taken into account the particular ways in which gender and sexuality rules have created or deepened certain risks for LBTQ women, [...]
