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ABColombia Newsletter
Would you like to stay informed about peace and human rights in Colombia? Then sign up for the ABColombia Newsletter today. Subscribers receive our newsletter with interesting news and updates on Colombia and ABColombia’s activities, as well as invitations to ABColombia events. Occasionally, we may include information about vacancies at ABColombia. However, you can indicate...
Survey of the Prevalence of Sexual Violence against Women in the Context of the Colombian Armed Conflict 2010-15
Encuesta de Prevalencia de Violencia Sexual en Contra de Las Mujeres en El Contexto del Conflicto Armado Colombiano 2010-2015. This publication in English in Spanish Despite the Colombian Peace Talks and the reduction of combat violence, women have experienced an increased level of conflict-related sexual violence from 149 (2000-2009) to 400 women per day (2010-2015)...
FARC becomes a Political Party
On 22 September 2017, the United Nations Mission in Colombia announced the successful ending of the phase of laying down of arms and decommissioning of FARC weapons, under point 3 of the Peace Accord “Ending Conflict”. In total, the FARC have laid down 8,994 weapons. These have now been collected from the Transitional Local Zones...
Parliamentary Delegation to Colombia August 2017
The Delegation consisted of two meembers of the Dáil (Irish Parliament): Fiona O’Loughlin TD, and Senator Catherine Noone, and one member of the UK Parliament: Baroness Jean Coussins. They were accompanied to Choco by a representative of the UK Embassy in Colombia, Tom Newton and the Scottish National Agency for International Development (SCIAF), Christian Aid...