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Colombia Section
The fifth wave of feminism in Colombia focuses advocacy on sexual violence. In Buenaventura, there is an all-women feminist school called the Escuela de Mariposas de Alas Nuevas (School of Butterflies with New Wings). The feminist school is for Afro-Colombian and indigenous women. The school advocates against women's violence and seeks to change the idea of the feminized body.

Sexual violence against women did not become apart of the political conversation until the peace process with Colombia's government and the FARC. Before then, violence and armed conflict was only addressed from a male point of view. Colombian feminists in NGOs (Non-Government Organizations) and other feminist activists projected their point of view on how sexual violence against women is a problem in Colombia, which started the conversation of the fifth wave idea.

The Colombian Constitutional Court issued Colombia's abortion law, C-355, in 2006. Feminists groups such as La Mesa have protested against C-355 with the reasoning that the law causes a violation to women's sexual and reproductive rights.

In general, Latin American feminists reject white, Western feminism and its feminist models. While running for a spot in a regional parliament, Colombian Eulalia Yagarí González said, "we need a policy for liberating women, but I don't mean a policy like the ones introduced here from Europe and North America."

Peru Section
When Peru changed its government structure to a democratic one in the 1980s, more women's organizations were created. In May of 2010, the feminist organization Colectiva por la Libre Información para las Mujeres (Collective for Free Information for Women) created a safe abortion hotline for women in Peru. The hotline allows for women who chose to get an abortion to do so safely with the medication misoprostol.