Yolanda Becerra

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Becerra and the second or maternal family name is Vega.
Yolanda Becerra
Born
Yolanda Becerra Vega

1959 (age 64–65)
Barrancabermeja, Colombia
Awards

Yolanda Becerra Vega (born 1959) is a Colombian feminist and pacifist activist. She is the founder and currently the national director[1] of the National Directorate of the Popular Women's Organization (Spanish: Organización Femenina Popular; OFP), an entity created in 1972 in the Diocese's Pastoral Ministry, which in 1988 became an autonomous organization based in Barrancabermeja to support women in peaceful resistance against violence and defend peaceful dialogue. She is currently putting her efforts into establishing entities for women such as the construction of a Museum of Memory and Human Rights for Women [2] and she also developed Women's Agendas for Territory and Peace. [3]

During more than four decades in defense of women victims of the conflict in Barrancabermeja and Magdalena Medio, she has suffered persecution and siege by paramilitary groups and has been threatened with death on several occasions.[4] The Office of the Attorney General itself denounced the plan of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia to assassinate her.[5] The Popular Women's Organization and other social groups that opposed the violence were declared military targets and obligated to take forceful protection measures.[5]

  1. ^ "Inspiring Thursday: Yolanda Becerra Vega". wave-network. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  2. ^ "Yolanda Becerra Vega". KAIROS. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  3. ^ "Inspiring Thursday: Yolanda Becerra Vega". wave-network. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  4. ^ "Amenazan a Yolanda Becerra Vega, una mujer premiada por el gobierno de Suecia" [Yolanda Becerra Vega Threatened, a Woman Awarded by the Government of Sweden]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). 5 November 2007. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  5. ^ a b Zuley Bernal Cuellar, Diana (2014). Historia de la Organización Femenina Popular en Barrancabermeja 1998–2008 [History of the Popular Women's Organization in Barrancabermeja 1998–2008] (PDF) (Thesis) (in Spanish). National University of Colombia. Retrieved 11 January 2019.