Although there has been progress in the fight for women’s rights, obstacles and dynamics continue to hinder the free exercise of autonomy and decision-making to guarantee Sexual Rights and Reproductive Rights.
In Colombia, there are complex challenges in terms of access to contraceptive methods for women living in urban and rural areas: it is very difficult for women to make free, autonomous and informed decisions about their bodies, increasing the rates of unwanted pregnancies, sexual violence, and gender violence (direct, symbolic and structural). Hence the importance of organizations such as the Fundación Natalia Ponce de Léon: we are a non-profit organization created to defend, promote and protect the human rights of survivors of chemical attacks, and to prevent and push for the prosecution of violence against women and girls, from a human rights and gender perspective.
