The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the University of Luxembourg and the Zonta Club Luxembourg invited to the screening of the film "Burden of Peace" at Maison du Savoir.

On 8 March, in the context of International Women’s Day, the screening of the documentary told the impressive story of Claudia Paz y Paz, the first woman to lead the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Guatemala. The country that has been ravaged for years by a devastating civil war, in which nearly 200,000 Mayan Indians were systematically massacred, is today one of the most violent countries in the world. Claudia starts a frontal attack against corruption, drug gangs and impunity and does what everyone had hitherto held to be impossible.

In the presence of Ambassador Peter W. Kok, Mrs Florence Fischer-Herber, District 27 Governor Zonta International and Associate Prof. Dr. Christel Baltes-Löhr, Gender representative at the University of Luxembourg.

Moderator: Mrs Gerda Vrielink, Chargée d’Affaires, Embassy of the Netherlands in Luxembourg

The film session was followed by a public discussion and a reception.

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