l first read about the UN Human Rights Defender Award Ceremony through Dr. Heather Cox Richardson’s “Letters from an American” post on December 13, 2024.  She wrote about how U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and others at the State Department had honored eight recipients just a few days earlier. 
https://mail.aol.com/d/search/keyword=antony%2520blinken/messages/APWOrJV-oq9kZ1kdxA1tgMUevxI

One honoree was Juana Alicia Ruiz, a Colombian quilter who understands the healing qualities of quilting.  The official December 10th State Department announcement describes Ms. Ruiz:
Juana Alicia Ruiz is an artist, teacher, social leader, and head of ASVIDAS, an organization dedicated to advocating for survivors of gender-based violence in Colombia.  Following paramilitary killings in her home village of Mampujan in 2000, Ms. Ruiz founded ASVIDAS in 2003 as an outgrowth of a local quilting group, which she and others in her community used to reconstruct events.  She also founded the Museum of Art and Memory of Mampujan to acknowledge and commemorate the violence and displacement her community faced.  Based on Ruiz’s advocacy, in 2010 a Colombian court recognized the culpability of government-affiliated paramilitaries.
https://www.state.gov/2024-human-rights-defender-award-recipients-announced/

During the awards ceremony, Secretary Blinken thoughtfully described Ms. Ruiz’ mission to help heal her community through quilting: 
In 2000, during Colombia’s brutal civil war, paramilitaries attacked the Afro-Colombian community of Mampujan – killing, torturing, sexually assaulting residents, driving them from their homes.  In the aftermath, Juana Alicia Ruiz joined other women from the community to create a project to help survivors recount their abuses, to process their traumas through quilting.  Juana’s advocacy eventually led a Colombian judge to require the government to build a museum to educate the public about the massacre and to promote reconciliation.

Ms. Ruiz is second from the right in the initial website photo at the link below.  She is at the far left of the group seated on the stage throughout the video.  Secretary Blinken speaks specifically about her from 15:15 to 16:02 and again from 28:18 to 28:37:
https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-at-the-human-rights-defender-award-ceremony/

The awards were a collaborative effort between The McCain Institute of Arizona State University and the State Department.  The recipients for 2024 are described here:
McCain Institute Partners With US State Department for the Global Human Rights Defender Award - McCain Institute

Ms. Ruiz presented her story at the British Academy Conference "Building Peace through Culture: Art, Memory, Landscape, Time" in 2022.  The closed caption feature provides the English translation: 
British Academy Conference Day 1 - in English - Juana Alicia Ruiz Hernandez

Read Juana’s entire story, including how American Teresa Geiser helped the women get started with quilting at "The Weavers of Mampuján and the Quilts of Hope," by Anna Vogt in The City Paper, February 24, 2015:
https://thecitypaperbogota.com/features/quilts-of-hope76778/

Google "Mampuján Quilts" to see a sampling of the quilts.