National assembly brings together over 350 quilombola women
“After a black woman falls, the whole quilombo rises with her.” The sentence, chanted by hundreds of women, marked the beginning of the 2nd National Meeting of Quilombola Women in the Federal District on Wednesday (Jun. 14). With the theme “Resist to Exist,” the assembly is organized by CONAQ, an association that coordinates rural communities known as quilombos, originally founded by black people fleeing slavery. The first edition of the gathering took place in 2015 and focused on “Quilombola Women as Protagonists.”About 350 quilombola leaders from across 24 states and Latin American countries will be gathered until Sunday (18) to discuss alongside federal officials public policies key to improving the quality of life of quilombola women as well as to address racial, social, and gender i...