The Women's Empowerment Network of Cartagena de Indias y Bolívar is a non-profit social organization, whose purpose is to group and articulate organized and independent women from the Cartagena district and the Bolívar department for their empowerment, defense, and promotion of their human rights, through training, participation and advocacy processes.
VISION
They envision a society with justice and gender equity, respectful of the human rights of women, without distinction of class, creed, ethnicity, age, sexual option, political identity, and origin, with democratic relations between genders and with social and cultural practices not patriarchal.
NETWORK ROLE
The network in its performance plays the following roles:
> GROUP: The Network identifies, summons and brings together independent and organized women around formative and participatory processes to share collective interests that identify with the values and principles of the network while maintaining their own identities.
> ARTICULATE: It is about joining efforts in the development of activities in defense of women's rights, establishing strategic alliances, and seeking coordination and strengthening to generate greater impact in the city and in the department.
> DEFEND AND PROMOTE: The Network sensitizes, trains, and promotes women's human rights, supports the enforceability of rights, management of initiatives or projects for the defense of ESCR, civil and political rights, documents and advises emblematic cases on violation of women's human rights.
> SOCIAL ACTIVISM: To be proactive actors in the construction of Cartagena and Bolivarian society, which implies mobilizing consciences, generating public opinion favorable to the human rights of women, positioning a gender discourse, placing oneself in the scenarios of representation.