On 8 March 2018, International Women’s Day, ABColombia pays tribute to all the courageous Human Rights Defenders it works with and those who have been killed for defending the rights of others. Colombian women defenders come from all walks of life; they are indigenous and afro-Colombian women living in remote areas, trade unionists, internally displaced...
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Human Rights Defenders’ Security Deteriorates
Two environmental human rights defenders were shot in Cajamarca, Tolima on Friday 28 July 2017. The two environmental defenders working for the Young Peoples Social and Environmental Collective of Cajamarca (Colectivo Socio-Ambiental Juvenil de Cajamarca – COSAJUCA) were shot at and narrowly escaped being injured or killed in Cajamarca on Friday, 28 July 2017. COSAJUCA...
FARC Finalise Laying Down of Arms
On 26 June 2017 the Colombian Government and the FARC-EP guerrilla completed the third phase in the process of the laying down of arms. According to the UN Mission in Colombia, they have registered the handing over of 7,132 of individual arms. The only ones that now remain in the 26 camps are those...
Church denounces State Abandonment in Cordoba and Urabá
The Bishop of Apartadó and the Catholic Church denounced the increase in killings of social leaders and political activists in the regions of Cordoba and Urabá. The Bishop Monseñor Hugo Alberto Torres Marin explain the gravity of the situation that they are facing in these regions of Colombia. [1] This was the deadliest week so...
Robbery of sensitive human rights information
Despite the Welcome gains in the Peace Talks in Havana there is a deterioration in the protection of the rights and the lives of human rights defenders; especially environmental defenders working on issues such as extractives. According to Somos Defensores, in the first nine months of 2015 there were 577 attacks against human rights...
Alexander Lopez – humanitarian crisis in Buenaventura
In June 2015, Colombian congressman Alexander Lopez visited the Catalan and UK Parliaments to draw attention to the humanitarian crisis in Buenaventura. He addressed the interrelationship between foreign investment and human rights violations in one of the most violent cities in the world. Colombian Senator Alexander Lopez (middle) with UK Parliamentarians and representatives of NGOs...
Palm Cultivation and the Communities of Curvaradó and Jiguamiandó.
2014 Colombia has suffered one of the worst and most hidden humanitarian crisis with 5.7 million people internally displaced, from between 6.8 and 10 million hectares of land. This amounts to more than the combined territory of Ireland and Wales and more than the whole of the population of Scotland. The Pacific Coast of Colombia...