Two days per week (7 hours per day) £10.89 per hour ABColombia is looking for a dynamic person to work on issues related to human rights and development as part of the ABColombia team. The person should have a commitment to human rights and experience of working or volunteering in an organisation or a degree...
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Colombian State declared responsible by International Court in the case of Jineth Bedoya Lima – kidnap, rape, torture and multiple other violations.
October 18, 2021 goes down in history as the day that a struggle, which began with an individual crime, led to the revindication of the rights of thousands of women victims and survivors of sexual violence and women journalists who leave part of their lives in their profession. said Jineth Bedoya, journalist, victim and...
COVID 19 pandemic exacerbates poverty and inequality in Colombia
The rapid spread of the pandemic has been a challenge for the Latin Americana and Caribbean (LAC) region, essential sanitary measures such as regular handwashing and social distancing measures are difficult to for the 230 million vulnerable people in LAC countries according to Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Many households do not...
Put human rights at the centre of environmental policy
OPEN LETTER TO WORLD LEADERS Download Letter here October 2021 Respecting and protecting human rights and protecting the environment are inextricably linked. Yet while Heads ofState from 88 countries have called to end siloed thinking in the Leaders Pledge for Nature, environmental policy-making still too often excludes or sidelines human rights. Today we, the undersigned...
Forced Displacement in Colombia Significantly Increased
1 October 2021 The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) expressed its serious concern regarding the significant increase in the situations of forced internal displacement in Colombia. Events of massive forced displacement in Colombia increased significantly currently Colombia continues to report the highest number of internally displaced people in the world, a total of 8.3...
ABColombia at COP26
Voices from the River Atrato Chocó Chocó department in Colombia is located in the Pacific basin of the “Chocó Biographical Region.” It extends from the Andes mountains to the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. It is one of the most important tropical regions in the world, being a nucleus with a high concentration of...
Job Vacancies
Communications and Information Officer Please Note that we have extended the deadline to 5pm on Wednesday 6 October 2021 The ABColombia is a project of a coalition of five leading development agencies, CAFOD, Christian Aid UKI, Oxfam GB, SCIAF and Trócaire which engages decision-makers in the UK and Irish governments, the European Union and United...
Security Council Press Statement on Colombia
16 Jul 2021 The following press statement was issued by the UN Security Council after receiving a briefing by Carlos Ruiz Massieu, SRSG and Head of the UN Verification Mission in Colombia to the UN Security Council Meeting on 13 July 2021. Press Statement New York, 16 July 2021. The Members of the Security Council...
Case 01: Kidnapping by the FARC-EP
On 26 January 2021, the Reconnaissance Chamber of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) charged eight members of the former Secretariat of the extinct FARC-EP with crimes against humanity and war crimes in case 01: Rodrigo Londoño Echeverry, Pablo Catatumbo Victoria, Pastor Lisandro Alape Lascarro, Milton de Jesús Toncel, Juan Ermilo Cabrera, Jaime Alberto Parra,...
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 a National Case on sexual, reproductive, gender-based and LGBTI violence in that occurred in the armed conflict. The JEP has taken an innovative and important approach to gender and race by taking a cross cutting...