Executive Director of UN Women to Visit Cuba
Havana - Executive Director of UN Women Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka will visit Cuba to attend the meetings of the talks between the Government of Colombia and FARC-EP, said sources here today.
A statement posted on the website of the Cuban Foreign Ministry (CubaMinrex) indicates that Mlambo-Ngcuka will arrive in Havana today to attend on July 24th the official closing ceremony of the work carried out by the subcommittee on gender, during the peace talks for Colombia.
Such peace talks between the Government of President Juan Manuel Santos and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (FARC-EP) are held since 2012 in Havana, Cuba, seeking to end the long conflict lasting more than 50 years in Colombia.
Mlambo-Ngcuka will be accompanied by Zainab Bangura, Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations for Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict, and Luiza Carvalho, regional director for the Americas and the Caribbean of UN Women, among others.
The ceremony will also be attended by members of social organizations in Colombia, including the LGBTI community (Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transgender and Intersex people).
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