October 18, 2021 goes down in history as the day that a struggle, which began with an individual crime,...
Category: Women
War Crimes Tribunal should open a National Case on Gender Based Violence
21/7/21 National and International Organisations are calling on Colombia’s War Crimes Tribunal, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) to open...
Nasa Indigenous Governor Sandra Liliana Peña Chocué shot and killed
ABColombia expresses its great sadness at the killing of Nasa Indigenous Governor Sandra Liliana Peña Chocué. We express our solidarity...
Does Colombia take Sexual Violence Seriously?
On 17 March 2021, the Colombian State objected to the Judges, the line of questioning, and way of conducting the...
Gender Focus in the Special Jurisdiction for Peace
Newsletter Number 9 Produced by the Observatory on the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, Colombian Commission of Jurists (Comisión Colombiana de...
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women: My Body Tells the Truth
My body tells the truth! This was the central message chosen by the Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition Commission (Truth Commission)...
Case of Jineth Bedoya: conflict-related sexual violence in Colombia brought before International Tribunal for the first time
On 16 July 2019, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) presented before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights the...
Colombia: Las mujeres y el Capítulo Étnico en el Acuerdo de Paz
Lo siguiente es un capítulo del informe de ABColombia “Hacia un cambio transformador: las mujeres y la implementación del Acuerdo...
Colombia Peace Accord: Women and the Ethnic Chapter
The following is an excerpt from the ABColombia report “Towards Transformative Change: Women and the Implementation of the Colombian Peace...
Inspired by Colombian Women Human Rights Defenders
8 March 2019. Women in Colombia are peacebuilders, human rights defenders, land and environmental activists. Every defender has her own...