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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The successive governments’ decision to expand monoculture for the production of biofuels is one of the drivers behind the development plan. – Christian Aid La Hacienda de Las Pavas One month after the farming community of Las Pavas returned home, having lost patience with the legal process, Colombia’s Constitutional Court ordered that their rights to...
