#HearMeToo: women-led grassroots organizations are best chance to end violence
Research by UN Women also tells us that only five per cent of international funds are allocated to programs targeting gender equality and women’s empowerment in fragile states. Canada can change this chronic underfunding by investing in the best chance for sustained peace in the world’s most volatile regions.
Gloria Suarez will not be quiet. She knows all too well that silence against gender-based violence feeds more violence. Suarez is with the Organización Femenina Popular (OFP), Colombia’s pre-eminent grassroots women’s organization. In a country ravaged by more than 50 years of civil conflict, w...
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