Last year, we decided to review the issues published to date and, with the help of a communications expert, we took the opportunity to make the leap towards a truly digital magazine that would include various narrative genres. This issue, then, attempts to show the qualitative leap we are taking with our partners towards a form of communication that increasingly reflects the enormous work they are doing alongside women, young people and girls, as well as local communities and organisational processes, towards a fairer world for everyone.
“When I healed traumas from violence I experienced for 25 years, it motivated me to accompany and heal other women who experience violence.”
Asociación de Mujeres Aq’ab’al (ASDEMUAQ)
It is possible to implement the Peace Agreement’s gender approach from the territories, using local policies and programmes.
Corporación Humanas.
“If we lose our language, we lose our history and our way of seeing the world.”
Comunidad de Juristas Akubadaura
In many cases, women cannot freely decide whether to use contraception for fear of reprisals or control.
Grupo Multidisciplinario por los derechos sexuales y reproductivos
1995 is an important year… it is the year when the Norwegian women’s movement came together to found FOKUS, the Forum for Women and Development.
Fokus
Periscopio Invertido is a historical, political and cultural review of Colombia through the lens of memory.
Cartografía Sur
“The Circle is a space where we can take refuge, feel accompanied and not judged”.
Corporación Ensayos para la Promoción de la Cultura Política
“That day when they took him out of the house, I felt a great calm, as if a great weight had been lifted off my shoulders.”
Asociación Red de Organizaciones de Mujeres Ixhiles (Asoremi)
Gender equality must be guaranteed as a pillar of democracy and anti-rights discourses must be countered.
La Mesa por la Vida y la Salud de las Mujeres
Women leaders are living knots that unite neighbourhoods, build community and sow peace with empathy and education.
Corporación Jurídica Yira Castro
“When a woman heals, she can help heal others. This is how we weave harmony in the body, the soul and the land.”
Cabildo indígena del Resguardo Kankuamo
The concept of social therapist emerged around 2006, based on the realisation that personal healing needed to transcend the individual and extend to the collective, to the community.
Mujeres Mayas Kaqla
“I want us to be a proactive community, not a reactive one, moving from misinformation to conversation, from silence to action.”
Photo IXMUKANÉ. Knowledge dialogue between midwives, Lena Henriksen from the Norwegian Midwives Association and Mildrid Mikkelsen, Head of Programmes at FOKUS.
