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Outlook: Colombia's City of Women

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City of Women

09/06/2016 GMT

Colombia's City of Women

BBC World Service - Outlook, Colombia's City of Women

How displaced women have built a haven from violence

In northern Colombia, survivors of a decades long conflict have decided to take their destiny into their own hands. Fighting between the state, left-wing rebels and some right-wing paramilitaries has left nearly seven million people displaced. It's been ten years since a group of women got together and decided to create a new kind of community, one where the women were - at last - in control. BBC's Natalio Cosoy reports from the 'City of Women'. 

Wil Baptiste and Kevin Sylvester - the classical violin hip-hop duo Black Violin on mixing Busta Rhymes with Bach and performing at Barack Obama's inauguration. 

Saber Hosseini - the Afghan school teacher who fends off threats from the Taliban to cycle across the mountains of Bamiyan with a mobile library, delivering books to children in remote villages who otherwise would have no access to story books.

Rob Hamill - a New Zealand Olympic rower on his quest to seek justice for his brother's death at the hands of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.

Photo: City of Women.
Credit: Liga de Mujeres Desplazadas.

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