ABColombia expresses its profound concern over the escalation of violence in the Nasa indigenous territories in Northern Cauca, which...
Tag: Indigenous
05.09201707/08/2018
05.07201729/01/2019
Supreme Court frees Indigenous Leader Feliciano Valencia
ABColombia welcomes the decision by Colombia’s Supreme Court to acquit prominent Colombian indigenous leader Feliciano Valencia after he was arrested...
27.05201729/01/2019
Government draft bill could conflict with Peace Accord
By ABColombiaIn 2017, Land, News, Peace, Vulnerable CommunitiesTags Afro-Colombian, Indigenous, Land, Women
Summary: Joint letter calls government draft bill ‘unconstitutional’ and in violation of the Peace Accord, saying it threatens indigenous,...
28.04201729/01/2019
Chocó: Indigenous people forced to flee
By ABColombiaIn 2017, Emblematic Cases, Land, Vulnerable CommunitiesTags Choco, conflict, Displacement, Indigenous
The Inter-ethnic Forum, the Indigenous Board and the Dioceses’ of Quibdó, Istmina and Apartadó and many NGOs in Colombia,...
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...
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
16.05201629/01/2019
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:...
31.10201529/01/2019