FRANCIA MARQUEZ by Juan Pablo Holguin

ORIGIN:

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Francia Elena Márquez Mina
She was born in 1982 (39 years) in
Suarez, Cauca, Colombia.

EARLY LIFE ASPECTS (CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE).

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He spent his childhood between the house of his maternal and paternal grandparents, also with his mother and his brothers. His mother works as a midwife, also in agriculture and mining; like his father who, in addition, is a worker.
He belonged to a united community, “I grew up in an extended family, the upbringing was collective. Here everyone took care of you and if you misbehaved, anyone could correct you."

She became a very young mother and worked as a domestic servant and also as an artisanal miner. He shared a close family life and liked dance, song and theater; but she became pregnant at 16 by a miner who had arrived in the area. She had a son and shortly after she went to Cali and there she became pregnant again. The leadership work also saw it in his grandfather and with the support of his family, he began to develop this quality.

ACADEMIC TRAINING:

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In 1993, he began to become aware of the rights and environmental and social difficulties that fishermen, ancestral miners, farmers and rafters of the region went through and in the year 2000 - 2001, he began to attend the Santiago University from Cali to study law.

INSPIRING ACHIEVEMENTS / CONTRIBUTIONS TO MANKIND:

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- In 2001, together with several lawyers, he tried to file a tutela action to stop the eviction orders that were being issued in the territory to give way to mining by some multinationals.
- In the year 2009-2010, together with Yair Ortiz Larrahondo, both representing the Community Council of the La Toma district, municipality of Suárez, Cauca; they managed to institute a second protection action for the same purposes.
- In 2014, she led the march of the Black Women for the Care of Life and the Ancestral Territories or The march of the turbans.
He participates in the fifth delegation of victims to Havana, within the framework of the peace talks between the National Government of then President Juan Manuel Santos and the then Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc).

PEOPLE THEY HAVE ENCOURAGED TO:

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Francia Marquez most of all inspires Afro-descendant communities since these communities are a great family that have based their economy on what our territories provide us.
 As a winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize, it honors community environmental activists to show that environmental issues are international.

REPRESENTATIVE QUOTES:

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- 2018: She is launched as a candidate for the chamber of Afro-Descendant Communities by the Yurumanguí Community Council party, she had the support of the political group Colombia Humana. It obtained more than 14,000 votes, but it did not obtain the seat.
-She obtained the recognition of the Goldman Prize -also considered the Environmental Nobel Prize- for her work for the environment and black ancestral communities.
- In May of that year, he suffered an attack in Santander de Quilichao, a Colombian municipality located in the north of the department of Cauca, in the village of Lomitas. This happened within the framework of the meetings that were being held with the Association of Community Councils of Norte del Cauca (ACONC) and two of their bodyguards and one of their companions were injured.
- She is selected as one of the most important women by the 2019 BBC's 100 Women list.
 - In 2019: On December 9, she wins the Joan Alsina Award for Human Rights, for her permanent fight for the defense of the environment and the rights of the community.