Judicial attacks against Human Rights Defenders continue in Colombia despite the signing of a Peace Accord with the FARC...
Author: ABColombia (ABColombia )
27.06201728/06/2017
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...
27.05201729/01/2019
Government draft bill could conflict with Peace Accord
By ABColombiaIn 2017, Land, News, Peace, Vulnerable CommunitiesTags Afro-Colombian, Indigenous, Land, Women
Summary: Joint letter calls government draft bill ‘unconstitutional’ and in violation of the Peace Accord, saying it threatens indigenous,...
29.04201729/01/2019
28.04201729/01/2019
Chocó: Indigenous people forced to flee
By ABColombiaIn 2017, Emblematic Cases, Land, Vulnerable CommunitiesTags Choco, conflict, Displacement, Indigenous
The Inter-ethnic Forum, the Indigenous Board and the Dioceses’ of Quibdó, Istmina and Apartadó and many NGOs in Colombia,...
27.04201702/07/2019
Joint statement rejecting the murder of Gerson Acosta
By ABColombiaIn 2017, Civil Society, Joint Letters, News Archive, Vulnerable CommunitiesTags Civil Society, HRDs, Human Rights Defenders, Indigenous
ABColombia, in a joint statement with 17 other International Civil Society Organisations, has expressed its profound rejection of, and concern...
03.02201729/01/2019
Church denounces State Abandonment in Cordoba and Urabá
By ABColombiaIn 2017, News, Vulnerable CommunitiesTags conflict, Peace Accord, Peace in Colombia, Uraba
The Bishop of Apartadó and the Catholic Church denounced the increase in killings of social leaders and political activists in...
06.12201603/08/2018
31.08201629/01/2019
Mecanismos de Autoprotección: Comunidades Rurales y Defensores de Derechos Humanos en Colombia
By ABColombiaIn Español, Human Rights, News, Publicaciones en EspañolTags Afro-Colombian, Choco, Communities, Community Leaders, Environment, FARC, HRDs, Human Rights, Indigenous, Social Leaders, Vulnerable Communities
31.08201629/01/2019