Judicial attacks against Human Rights Defenders continue in Colombia despite the signing of a Peace Accord with the FARC...
Tag: HRDs
27.04201702/07/2019
Joint statement rejecting the murder of Gerson Acosta
By ABColombiaIn 2017, Civil Society, Joint Letters, News Archive, Vulnerable CommunitiesTags Civil Society, HRDs, Human Rights Defenders, Indigenous
ABColombia, in a joint statement with 17 other International Civil Society Organisations, has expressed its profound rejection of, and concern...
24.02201729/01/2019
National Security Guarantees Commission
By Louise WinstanleyIn 2017, Human Rights, News, Peace, Vulnerable CommunitiesTags HRDs, Paramilitaries, Peace Accord, Protection, Security
On 24 February 2017 the National Security Guarantees Commission was inaugurated. This is an important first step in the...
04.12201613/03/2020
Revised Peace Accord ratified by the Colombian Congress
ABColombia welcomes the ratification by the Colombian Congress of the revised Final Peace Agreement between the Government of...
31.08201629/01/2019
Mecanismos de Autoprotección: Comunidades Rurales y Defensores de Derechos Humanos en Colombia
By ABColombiaIn Español, Human Rights, News, Publicaciones en EspañolTags Afro-Colombian, Choco, Communities, Community Leaders, Environment, FARC, HRDs, Human Rights, Indigenous, Social Leaders, Vulnerable Communities
31.08201629/01/2019
28.05201629/01/2019
04.02201629/01/2019
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...
08.11201522/07/2019
Zenú Indigenous Peoples from the Alto San Jorge Resguardo Cordorba
By ABColombiaIn Emblematic Cases, Human Rights, News Archive, Vulnerable CommunitiesTags Extractives, HRDs, Indigenous, Land, Paramilitaries, Zenu
The Zenú Resguardo of Alto San Jorge in Cordorba consists of 47 communities numbering 19,022 people distributed in three areas:...
31.05201529/01/2019