Memorial Day for Victims of Sexual Violence in Colombia

Sexual violence is not established in the war, but it has been constituted as one more gear of it, it is anchored to a patriarchal social order that continues to place women in positions of subordination and vulnerability. May 25, National Day for the Dignification of the Victims of Sexual Violence in the Framework of the Internal Armed Conflict.

The memory of sexual violence is a dignifying act that resists silence, a social interpellation about the conditions that have made it possible for daily and pre-war violence to persist, the way in which armed actors imprint diverse messages on women's bodies through sexual violence, and the urgent need to generate structural conditions for social transformation that prioritizes the dignified life of women, as a guarantee of repetition.