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City of Women
'City of Women': A refuge for Colombia's displacedhttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-51443831
During Colombia's more than half-century armed conflict, bloodshed between left-wing guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries and the country's military forced nearly eight million people to flee their homes.
Women and Afro-Colombians in particular faced greater levels of violence in the conflict and would often arrive in far-off cities with nothing and no-one.
In an impoverished neighbourhood in the sweltering coastal city of Cartagena, a group of displaced women decided to do something about it.
They formed the League of Displaced Women and in 2003 began to construct their own community brick by brick: The City of Women.
The City, in the nearby municipality of Turbaco, is made up of 100 houses the women built with their own hands.
A sign reading "Careful, machismo kills" stands in the centre of the city, near one of the 100 homes the women built for themselves and their families.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-51443831