Guardian angel: Mery Medina, a co-director of the Butterflies with New Wings human rights group in the Colombian port city of Buenaventura, which extends help to women threatened with forced displacement, ?in front of the chapel of memories? where photos of 120 victims of violence are posted. ?- MCT
Butterflies With New Wings wins the highest honour given in their line of human rights work.
Mery Medina has taken on a role in this hyperviolent port city that the Colombian government has been unable to fill: sheltering and counselling women threatened with forced displacement.
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