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By Lyric Thompson, Women’s Human Rights Coordination Group

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A group of former leaders and human rights experts serve as a watchdog to threats against democratic stability in the Americas and as a voice to strengthen, promote, and protect democracy and human rights. The group aims to bolster the effectiveness of the Inter-American Democratic Charter, approved on Sept. 11, 2001, by all 34 members of the OAS to address new kinds of democratic threats beyond the traditional military coup.

“I used to work on my land growing crops and tending my cattle, but then about 13 years ago, I entered a new world, that of conservation, of species, of nature. And I feel content, because I feel I am contributing my part of love, and I am helping to raise the awareness of my friends and colleagues in the municipality.

The Nueva Esperanza shelter holds 150 families in this hot and humid stretch along the Caribbean Sea. The region just beyond here suffered massive flooding in late 2010, part of an ongoing deluge that Colombia's president has called the "the worst natural disaster that we can remember." Heavy rains filled lakes and rivers, which then spilled onto farmlands, washed out roads and inundated local communities.
Nayis Mariaga and her family built their home in one of the flooded-out communities. She and her neighbors had no option but to flee. Nayis, her husband and her four children now live in Nueva Esperanza.