On World Environment Day, 5 June 2024, ABColombia would like to draw attention to the importance of making peace with the land by reviving water sources like rivers for both the environment and people worldwide. The theme for this year’s day of action is land restoration, halting desertification and building drought resilience, fitting for Colombia....
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Urgent appeal for the protection of the life and integrity of the communities and social leaders of Sur de Bolívar.
International Civil Society Organisations signatories of this statement issue an urgent alert regarding worrying situation facing communities in Sur de Bolivar. Social, regional, and national social organisations, funds, programmes and international protections organisations in Colombia, as well as the international NGOs working in Colombia, emphatically reject the assassination of Narciso Beleño, which occurred in Santa...
URGENT ALERT from the Afro-Colombian Communities in the south of Riohacha at the foot of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
4 March 2024 This is an unofficial translation and summary of the alert issued by the communities named below. The following 25 Afro-Colombian communities living on collectively owned and ancestral land, namely, Comunidad Negra de Predio El Carmen Corregimiento de Juan y Medio, Comunidad Negra de Cascajalito Corregimiento de Juan y Medio, Comunidad Negra Los...
International Women’s Day 2024: update on the implementation of UNSCR 1325 and the NAP
This International Women’s Day, 8 February 2024, ABColombia would like to draw attention to Colombia’s progress in developing and implementing a National Action Plan as part of the Women, Peace Security (WPS) Agenda, and celebrate the incredible and tireless work of Colombian women civil society organisations (CSOs) in this process. In 2000, the United Nations...
UNSC Visit to Caquetá and Buenaventura
As ABColombia previously reported, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) visited Colombia between 7 and 11 February 2024. The delegation’s visit took them out of Bogotá, to Caquetá and Buenaventura, where they met with different groups of civil society members. UNSC Visit to Caquetá On 9 February, the delegation travelled to the Caquetá department to...
Forced Displacement of the Wiwa Indigenous Peoples
Information from Cajar, read the Alerta Urgente here. On 27 February 2024, the Wiwa Indigenous Peoples, together with Colombian human rights organisations CINEP, CAJAR, AIDA and FIDH, have issued an urgent alert to notify authorities and the international community of a situation of massive forced displacement throughout the Rancheria river basin. On 24 February 2024,...
Jakeline Romero Epiayú, 1979 – 2024
It is with great sadness that ABColombia has learned of the death of Jakeline Romero Epiayú, a human rights defender that we greatly admired for her kindness, her courage, her expert knowledge and her determination to defend the rights of others. Our thoughts go out to her family and the communities around the Cerrejón mine....
Colombia reiterates commitment to ensure a state presence in rural areas
The UK Ambassador Barbara Woodward issued a statement at the UN Security Council (UNSC) following the Council’s visit to Colombia, sharing how Colombia’s High Commissioner for Peace, Otto Patino, detailed the Colombian Government’s plan for territorial transformation, by ensuring the state’s presence in rural areas which have continued to be abandoned even after the signing of...
The UN Security Council Visit Colombia: February 2024
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) agenda for Colombia between 7 and 11 February 2024. The delegation consists of the UK (as the penholder on the UNSC for Colombia), and co-delegation leaders Guyana and Switzerland. This visit comes at the mid-point in the implementation of the 2016 Peace Accord agreed with FARC-EP, which was envisaged...
International Organisations call on UN Security Council to consult with Civil Society Organisations during its visit to Colombia
Oidhaco, a network of European civil society organisations and other International Organisations, welcome the visit of the Security Council to Colombia at a time when it is necessary to strengthen the processes that promote peace. We express our concern regarding the delays in the implementation of the 2016 Peace Agreement, the success or failure of...