Press release 28 April 2020 Indigenous Wayuu and Afro-Colombians demand that Anglo American returns the Bruno, diverted for the extraction of coal, to its natural course On 5 May 2020, Anglo American, a London listed multinational mining company (MNC) will hold their AGM behind closed doors. Anglo-American are one of three MNC that jointly own...
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Ensuring civil society’s right to participation: Letter to the United Nations
On 30 April 2020, the Civil Society Organisations who are members of the Latin American and Caribbean Group at the UN (ONG-LAC) wrote a letter to Ambassador Elisabeth Tichy-Fissleberer, President of the United Nations Human Rights Council, and Ms Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The letter outlined the ONG-LAC’s opinions, from...
Letter to President Ivan Duque: COVID-19 and the Humanitarian and Human Rights Crisis
ABColombia wrote the following letter to President Ivan Duque on 31 March 2020. You will find a copy of the letter in PDF in English and spanish if you click on the buttons above. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) is having a major global impact. Whilst the impacts vary from country to country, all governments are having...
Humanitarian Crisis in Chocó Intensifies
On 23 March 2020 the social organisations and communities in Chocó brought out a public statement about the deterioration that in the humanitarian situation and the increase in the violations of human rights and terrorising acts in Chocó , so far in the month of March. see below the parliamentary questions asked about the humanitarian...
Declaration of Support to the OHCHR in Colombia
WE FULLY SUPPORT THE WORK OF THE OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (OHCHR) IN COLOMBIA AND THEIR REPRESENTATIVE, ALBERTO BRUNORI. Bogota, 2 March 2020 Since the arrival in 1997, of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Colombia, social and human rights movements have...
In the International Women’s Day ABColombia say #IStandWith Emilse Paz
“Our dream is the demilitarization of our territories, so they are peace territories, as they were years ago. There we can exercise our self-determination as Indigenous peoples, and as Indigenous women… It is our dream as peace builders, that all of us together can work towards a sustainable and lasting peace with no violence. The...
UN Annual Report on Human Rights in Colombia
ABColombia welcomes the annual report on 26 February 2020 of the Office of the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Colombia on the human rights situation in Colombia in 2019. The report of the High Commissioner, Alberto Brunori, focuses on the situation of human rights defenders, the use of the military in...
Written evidence from ABColombia to the Foreign Affairs Committee
This written evidence focuses on human rights defenders and draws examples of work undertaken by the FCO in relation to Colombia By ABColombia in News, Briefings, Human Rights Giving response to the Foreign Affair Committee’s inquiry into Human rights: “Freedom of religion and belief, and human rights defenders”, ABColombia presented a report addressing the situation...
Side event at the 43rd session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva
Human Rights Defenders Report of the visit of the UN Special Rapporteur to Colombia Geneva, 6 March 2020 Palace of the Nations, Room XXVII, 14.30h – 15:30h Organisers of the side event at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva: Oidhaco, CCEEU, Alianza, Plataforma DESC, Colombian Commission of Jurists, ABColombia, PBI, Business and Human Rights...
The Protection of People in the midst of conflict is an ethical and political imperative that is a commitment of our humanity
The International Civil Society Organisations signing this statement urge the armed actors in Colombia to guarantee the lives of the communities and people living in the national territory, particularly the areas affected by the indefinite ‘Armed Strike.’ This strike was declared by the Popular Liberation Army (EPL) on the 12 February in the Catatumbo region...