Photo: Pacifista.tv PUBLIC PRESS RELEASE No. 194 GAITANIST PARAMILITARIES KIDNAP THE SON OF A MEMBER OF THE THE ASSOCIATION IN THE RURAL AREA OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF CUCUTA, NORTH OF SANTANDER. The Colombian Rural Association “ASOGRAS COLOMBIA”, denounces before authorities, international...
PRESS RELEASE: DEMAND FOR CITIZEN SECURITY LAW Bogotá, February, 2022 The human rights organizations such as the Lawyers Collective José Alvear Restrepo, Liberty Law Corporation, Political Prisoner Solidarity Committee, Defending Freedom is Everyone’s Business Campaign, Coordination Colombia...
Photo: Amnesty International Photography is the art of fixing moments painted with light. History, an infinite succession of moments, has been painted, read written, by those who have come to hold power, in which, undoubtedly, interests have been nested. Thus, in order to safeguard the latter,...
The Preamble of the Final Agreement for the Termination of the Conflict and the Construction of a Stable and Lasting Peace of 2016 reminds us of its reason for being in the opinion of the National Government, “the transformations to be achieved by implementing this Agreement must contribute...
We want you alive to continue moving against war, for peace, for the guarantee of rights and democracy! We, Colombian women, from our identitary, sexual, ethnic, spiritual, political, and territorial diversities, participants in the III National Summit of Women and Peace, coming from territories...
The representatives of victims from different Social Organizations observe with concern the recent decisions of the Council of State – Third Section -, regarding the recognition of the responsibility of the State and the integral reparation to the victims of serious human rights violations...
The Accidental Commission for the monitoring and verification of coal mining activity in the Colombian Caribbean presented in December 2021 a report on the serious human, environmental, territorial, and cultural rights condition resulting from coal extraction in La Guajira and Cesar. The report...
Originally published in Confidencial Colombia The Constitutional Court by means of T-413 of November 29, 2021, widely disclosed on January 19, 2022, annulled the Environmental Management Plan, EMP, issued by the National Environmental Licensing Agency, on the use of glyphosate to eradicate...
PEASANT HUMAN RIGHTS NETWORK OF PUTUMAYO, PIAMONTE CAUCA, COFANÍA JARDINES DE SUCUMBÍOS IPIALES – NARIÑO February 2, 2022, Putumayo PUBLIC COMPLAINT The Forced Eradication and Terrestrial Fumigation campaigns, in compliance with a Ministerial and Presidential Order, are leaving children injured...
COLOMBIAN PLATFORM FOR HUMAN RIGHTS DEMOCRACY AND DEVELOPMENT Hunger alert in Colombia Statement on the food insecurity situation in Colombia February 3, 2022. The Colombian Platform for Human Rights, Democracy and Development (PCDHDD) expresses its concern regarding the food insecurity...
Originally published in Confidencial Colombia The Constitutional Court, on January 27, 2022, declared the Unconstitutional State of Affairs due to the constant and massive violation of fundamental rights to life, personal integrity, security and peace that more than 13,000 former FARC combatants...
Proclamation of social organizations defending human rights in the department of Arauca in light of the serious humanitarian crisis. Press conference broadcast: The Araucanian people are living these days in fear and terror due to a new wave of violence between armed groups that are present in...