READ UN’s Resolution to support implementation of the Truth Commission’s recommendations On 28 of June 2023 marked the first year of the publication of the final report of the Colombian Truth Commission. The report was the product of thousands of hours of investigation over a 5-year period that condensed over 14,000 individual and collective interviews...
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UN Human Rights Committee pass Resolution on provision of technical cooperation to implement Truth Commission’s Report
Colombia serves as an important example that resolving enduring differences is only possible through peaceful dialogue. Simon Manley CMG On 13 July 2023 the UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution (A/HRC/53/L.25/Rev.1) on Enhancement of technical cooperation and capacity-building in the field of human rights in Colombia to implement the recommendations of the Commission for the...
Pressure Rises to Open Macrocase11 on Sexual Violence in Conflict in Colombia
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE ELIMINATION OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN CONFLICT Gender-based violence remains one of the most systemic and widespread human rights violations of our time.[i] In Colombia, the situation of impunity in gender-based violence has not only continued, but increased, despite the signing of the Peace Accord in 2016. According to a survey by...
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Colombia’s Transitional Justice System Macrocase 09: Crimes Committed Against Indigenous Ethnic Peoples and Territories.
The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP, Spanish acronym) will investigate crimes against humanity suffered by the Indigenous, Afro-Colombia, Raizal and Palenquera Peoples and Territories during the armed conflict by members of the FARC-EP and the Colombian Security Forces, as well as other State agents and civilian third parties. According to JEP analysis, the victimising act...
Event: Sexual and Gender-based Violence in Colombia a Feminist Perspective on Security
Book your FREE ticket HERE Register HERE to join the event ONLINE Register HERE to join the event ONLINE “Activists Voices from Colombia” Colombia was the first country in the world to commit in its Peace Accord with the FARC-EP to there being no amnesties for conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence. It is also the first country...
Enforced Disappearances in Colombia: an ongoing issue.
Despite the signature of the Peace Accord (2016), enforced disappearances continue in Colombia. The Colombian Transitional Justice System has three elements, the Truth Commission, The Special Jurisdiction for Peace and the Search Unit for the disappeared. The Truth Commission’s report states that there were over 110 thousand enforced disappearances in Colombia, during the most intense...
Truth Commission of Colombia: Executive Summary
Colombia’s Truth Commission was established as a result of the 2016 Peace Accord between the Colombian Government and the FARC- EP. The Commission released their final report on 28 June 2022, this was the culmination of exhaustive research and interviews with nearly 24,000 people in Colombia and of exiles living abroad. The Commission is holding...
Colombia’s Presidential Election
The 19 June 2022 saw 58% of Colombians turnout to vote in the second and final round of Colombia’s Presidential elections. The highest percentage of citizens voting in a Presidential election in 50 years. The result was a landmark victory for the left-wing candidate Gustavo Petro and his running mate Francia Marquez. They won by...
There is a Future if there is Truth
ABColombia Welcomes Colombia’s Truth Commission Report And Remembers the Victims 1 July 2022 ABColombia welcomes the launch, on 28 June 2022, of the Truth Commission’s Report. The final report of the Truth Commission for the clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-repetition (la Comisión para el Esclarecimiento de la Verdad, la Convivencia y la No repetición),...