Category: Vulnerable Communities
Urgent Action: Escalation of Violence in Indigenous Territory, Northern Cauca
ABColombia expresses its profound concern over the escalation of violence in the Nasa indigenous territories in Northern Cauca, which...
The Right to Peaceful Protest must be Guaranteed if Peace-building is to be sustainable.
On 5 October 2017 in Tumaco, on the Pacific Coast, local organisations are reporting nine peasant farmers were...
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...
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...
National Security Guarantees Commission
On 24 February 2017 the National Security Guarantees Commission was inaugurated. This is an important first step in the...