Articles by CCAJAR

Latest addition: 17 February 2012.

  • Argos and their land theft strategy in Montes de María

    17 de febrero de 2012, por Movice

    The National Movement of Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE) supports member of Congress and MOVICE member Ivan Cepeda’s actions before the United Nations denouncing human rights violations and the theft of small farmers’ lands in Montes de María, in the Carribean coast region of Colombia, by the company "Cementos Argos S.A."

  • ASF, LWBC, CAJAR and FIDH take note of the report on preliminary examinations issued by the office of the prosecutor of the icc

    24 de diciembre de 2011, por Prensa - Colectivo

    Avocats sans frontières (“ASF”), Lawyers Without Boarders Canada (“LWBC”), Corporación Colectivo de Abogados José Alvaro Restrepar (“CAJAR”) and the International Federation for Human Rights (“FIDH”) take note of the Report on Preliminary Examination activities (the “Report”) issued by the Office of the Prosecutor (“OTP”) of the International Criminal Court (“ICC”) on 13 December 2011. They are particularly interested in the section concerning Colombia, as it falls within the ambit of their activities aimed at promoting and reinforcing the ICC system in that country.

  • North American NGOs and Human Rights Experts Condemn Colombia’s Attack on Inter-American System

    14 de diciembre de 2011

    November 18, 2011

    We stand behind the work of the Inter-American human rights system and the victims of gross human rights violations who have sought its protection. We are extremely concerned by public statements made by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, Vice President Angelino Garzón, Inspector General Alejandro Ordóñez and other high-ranking public officials against the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective in relation to the Mapiripán case.

  • CCAJAR and CEJIL issue a press release in relation to the Mapiripán Massacre hearing at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

    29 de noviembre de 2011, por Cejil - CCajar

    Regarding the hearing on compliance with the Judgment of the Mapiripán Massacre case, held on Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011 at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, CEJIL and CCAJAR express their satisfaction that the Court reaffirmed that the prime interest is the protection of the victims of severe human rights violations.

  • “There will be a lot more Mapiripans. Who wants to destroy CCAJAR?”

    18 de noviembre de 2011, por Prensa - Colectivo

    “…every night, through cracks in the wall, I watched kidnapped people go by, with their hands tied behind their backs and gagged, to be cruelly murdered in the slaughterhouse of Mapiripán. Every night we heard screams of people who were being tortured and murdered, asking for help [...].”

  • Press Release for the General Public

    18 de noviembre de 2011, por Prensa - Colectivo

    The José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective (CCAJAR) has decided to state the following with respect to the information on the alleged acts revealed yesterday in the press in relation to a “Justice and Peace” hearing on the Mapiripán Massacre:

  • President Juan Manuel Santos met with members of the José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective

    25 de julio de 2011, por Prensa - Colectivo

    On Monday, July 18, 2011, members of the José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective (CCAJAR) met with President Juan Manuel Santos, along with Vice-President Angelino Garzón, Minister of Interior Germán Vargas Lleras, Director of the Protection Office María Paulina Riveros, and General Oscar Naranjo, National Director of the Police. The purpose of this meeting was to discuss the attacks and insecurity faced by the Lawyers’ Collective, which have been instigated by structures within the Colombian State and establishment, as well as paramilitary groups.

  • Jose Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective Returns Protection Scheme to the DAS

    12 April 2011, by Prensa - Colectivo

    As is widely known and as has been proven in court documents, at the behest of expresident Álvaro Uribe Vélez’s government the Jose Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective was targeted for systematic persecution by the DAS and other intelligence agencies. Uribe’s government considered our work defending human rights to be “terrorist” activities and a threat to the government and national security. Even the Interior Ministry’s Protection Program was used to persecute us and monitor our activities as human rights defenders.

  • the Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo was alerted to a possible attack one of its members

    de septiembre de 2010, por Prensa - Colectivo

    In a letter to president Juan Manuel Santos, on Friday September 10, the Colectivo de Abogados "José Alvear Restrepo", requested his immediate intervention, after learning in recent days, from a credible source, that an attack was being prepared on the life of a lawyer of this NGO that defends human rights, which would involve military intelligence.

  • The AFL-CIO Union Coalition Presents Award to Yessika Hoyos, Daughter of a Murdered Colombian Trade Unionist

    15 September 2009, by Prensa - Colectivo

    On September 17, 2009, the AFL – CIO formally presented the 2008 George Meany-Lane Kirkland Human Rights Award to Yessika Hoyos Morales for her work as a leader and founding member of the Movement, Sons and Daughters for Memory and against Impunity, for her fight to clarify the murder of her father, trade union leader Jorge Darío Hoyos Franco, and for her work as a human rights defender with the José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective.

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