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From Poverty to Power Green, Oxfam 2008 - weman

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VIOLENCE AND CONFLICTHumanity will not enjoy security without development, it will notenjoy development without security, and it will not enjoy eitherwithout respect for human rights.FORMER UN SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN 124The gunmen have taken people’s land, their houses, their sons, andforced their daughters <strong>to</strong> marry them. This is the nation’s blood.WOMAN, MAZAR-E-SHARIF, AFGHANISTAN 125Half a dozen black vultures darken the sky in Ursula’s drawing of herold house in the Colombian countryside. ‘That’s maize, an apple tree– we had all sorts of fruit’, she explains.‘That’s a garden. That’s a golero,a bird that eats the dead. There were lots of goleros where we lived.’A <strong>to</strong>othy nine-year-old, she wears red stud earrings, an array of cheapplastic bangles, and traces of varnish on her nails. Her dark Indianfeatures grow solemn as she explains why she had <strong>to</strong> leave her farm.We saw everything when they shot my papa. Everything.They made us go outside when they got there at 6am. When mymother tried <strong>to</strong> go back in, they said, ‘Get out or we’ll shoot you’.My brother tried <strong>to</strong> escape and they shot him, then my Dad wentcrazy and attacked them with a machete and they shot him <strong>to</strong>o.My mother only cried a month or two after they buried him.She was pregnant with my little sister. She said she was going <strong>to</strong>273

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