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Andean Group - May 2018 (ISSN 1741-4466)

The participation of women in the Colombian peace process

On 24 November 2016, the final peace accord was signed between the Colombian government and the guerrilla Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – Ejército del Pueblo (Farc). Internationally, this is considered one of the most comprehensive peace agreements ever achieved. Unprecedented in arriving at this agreement was the establishment, early on, of a gender sub-commission at the talks in Havana. Due to the work of this sub-commission, the final peace accord has a strong gender focus in each of its chapters. This, alongside formal mechanisms set to guarantee the participation of civil-society, and the work of Colombian women’s civil-society organisations (CSOs), ensured an influential and pervading gender focus in the peace accord. This article focuses on the work of the gender sub-commission and the support given to it by women’s CSOs and social actors; however, it should be recognised that the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) and the guarantor countries also played a key role.

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