Today, 10 July 2017, the United Nations Security Council approved a second United Nations (UN) Mission in Colombia via Resolution...
Year: 2017
Human Rights Essential Component for UN Security Council Political Mission
ABColombia welcomes the end of the process of the Laying Down of Arms by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia...
Supreme Court frees Indigenous Leader Feliciano Valencia
ABColombia welcomes the decision by Colombia’s Supreme Court to acquit prominent Colombian indigenous leader Feliciano Valencia after he was arrested...
Freedom for David Ravelo amidst Surge in Threats against Human Rights Defenders
Judicial attacks against Human Rights Defenders continue in Colombia despite the signing of a Peace Accord with the FARC...
FARC Finalise Laying Down of Arms
On 26 June 2017 the Colombian Government and the FARC-EP guerrilla completed the third phase in the process of...
ABColombia and others denounce the killing of Bernardo Cuero Blanco
ABColombia juntos con otras organizaciones de la sociedad civil internacional: Rechazan asesinato del líder de Afrodes Bernardo Cuero Blanco,...
Government draft bill could conflict with Peace Accord
Summary: Joint letter calls government draft bill ‘unconstitutional’ and in violation of the Peace Accord, saying it threatens indigenous,...
Chocó: Indigenous people forced to flee
The Inter-ethnic Forum, the Indigenous Board and the Dioceses’ of Quibdó, Istmina and Apartadó and many NGOs in Colombia,...
Joint statement rejecting the murder of Gerson Acosta
ABColombia, in a joint statement with 17 other International Civil Society Organisations, has expressed its profound rejection of, and concern...