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Colombia’s “False Positives�

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Guest blog from Beatriz, one of Benetech's human rights team members in Colombia. But today's mood in Colombia is more somber than usual. El Espectador, one of the two most important national daily newspapers, screams out in today's editorial: "Shame!" It has yet to be demonstrated that actual killings have dropped.

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Support Women Survivors of War with $27/month

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There she found her five children who had survived by the kindness of strangers. T he program works in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sudan. Reunited, she began to rebuild their life." Honorata joined Women for Women International in August 2004.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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They wanted to create a literacy program for themselves because now there was a school where their children could go to school, but they felt embarrassed that they couldn't support their children because they themselves were illiterate. Women and their children are disproportionately victims of outside violence as well.

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