Third Party at the Table: Afro-Colombian Women’s Struggle for Peace and the Inclusion of a Racial-Gender Justice Analysis in Colombia’s Peace Process (2020)

4 HRLR Online 324

This article discusses how conservative politicians and evangelical religious leaders in Colombia used the concept of "gender ideology" to strip the 2016 Peace Accord of its provisions protecting the rights of women, Afro-Colombians, Indigenous Peoples, LGBTIQ, and non-binary and gender non-conforming persons.  It also discusses how the harbinger of conservative opposition to human rights viewed justice for these groups as a threat to their grip on power and argues for the necessity of leadership from Afro-Colombian and Indigenous communities in the implementation process.