Laura Kiatkovsky, of UN Radio interviewed Diana Lopez, Researcher in Gender, Migration, Remittances and Development at UN-INSTRAW.

The interview was focused on the new study "Gender and Remittances: Colombian Migration from the Central Western Metropolitan Area (AMCO)", prepared by UN-INSTRAW and the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The study analyzes the dynamics of migration from the Central-Western Metropolitan Area (AMCO) in Colombia to Spain, the flow of remittances sent and received by women and the impact of those remittances on the development of their communities of origin.

Read the press release

Read the study (available in Spanish)