BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - They have received death threats, been forced from their homes, and live in the middle of drug turf wars, but nothing has stopped a Colombian women’s rights group that is this year’s recipient of a U.N. refugee agency award.
Based in Buenaventura, Colombia’s main port city, the group’s network of 120 volunteers - Butterflies with New Wings Building a Future – has been awarded the UNHCR’s annual Nansen Refugee Award for helping 1,000 women who have suffered at the hands of warring factions in Colombia’s 50-year war.
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