Get Your Tickets for the CoDev Annual Solidarity Dinner!
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Join us for our annual solidarity and fundraising dinner. Get together with friends and enjoy a fabulous latin-themed dinner, the smooth guitar sounds of Magnifuego, an incredible silent auction and the always delectable dessert auction! And as always, in the spirit of global justice we will honour a special recipient with our International Solidarity Award. This year's deserving recipient is Sandra Moran.
Sandra is one of Guatemala’s most prominent feminists and performance artists. Over the past 3 decades, she’s played an important role in Guatemala’s human rights, women’s and cultural movements. She is also the first openly feminist and lesbian in Guatemala’s National Congress.Sandra joined the Guatemalan human rights movement at age 14, and during the 1980s became involved with Guatemala’s renowned rebel music group Kin Lalat. Her activism made her a target for death squads, and by the late 1980s, she was forced into exile in Nicaragua, Mexico and finally Vancouver. In 1994, Sandra returned to Guatemala City to help create the Women's Sector, an alliance of 33 women's groups that represented Guatemalan women during peace negotiations that ended Guatemala's 36-year civil war in late 1996.
As representative of the Women's Sector, Sandra was a founder of the National Women's Forum, which developed public policies on women’s rights in the post-war period. In 1995, Sandra also founded “We Are Women”, Guatemala's first lesbian collective, and was a central organizer of Guatemala's first gay pride parade. Sandra also serves as one of 2 representatives for the Americas on the Global Council of the World March of Women.
In 2006, she co-founded Casa Artesana in Guatemala City as a safe meeting and artistic space for women and other groups facing discrimination. Casa Artesana works to improve conditions for women in Guatemalan prisons and their children, and provides art therapy, rights training and advocacy for women prisoners. For this and so much more we are pleased to honour Sandra Moran and hope you will join us in showing our deep appreciation for all her many achievements.
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