http://marthaluzmachado.com/content/2013/01/Defeating-Invisibility-A-Challenge-For-Afro-descendant-Women-In-Colombia<p><img style="float: right; margin-top: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px;" src="/_contentimages/2013-01-20-19-38-48.Defeating-Invisibility-cover-e1358098254106.png" alt="" width="150" /><em><span style="font-size: xx-small;">January 20, 2013</span></em></p> <p>As women and Afro-descendant, the women from the Black Communities&rsquo; Process in Colombia (Proceso de Comunidades Negras en Colombia&ndash;PCN), join the call to see violence against women as a human rights problem that has a multi-dimensional character. In this sense, the abuse of the human rights of Afro-descendant women not only affects them as women but also as Afro-descendants living in a homogenizing context of geo-economic wars that exacerbate the historic practices of domination through violence, and reinforce their impoverishment and marginalization through the dispossession caused by forced displacement.&nbsp;<a href="http://awid.org/eng/Library/Defeating-Invisibility-A-Challenge-for-Afro-descendant-Women-in-Colombia" target="_blank">Read the report&gt;</a></p> <div> <p><a href="http://www.pazdesdelabase.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1084:derrotar-la-invisibilidad-el-reto-de-las-mujeres-afrodescendientes-en-colombia&amp;catid=45:acin&amp;Itemid=59" target="_blank">Red de Iniciativas y Comunidades de Paz desde la Base&gt;</a></p> </div>