The OECD has accepted a complaint against Irish state-owned ESB for alleged failure to conduct responsible business conduct in the purchase of Colombian coal. The National Contact Point (NCP) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Ireland has agreed to...
In the context of her professional activity before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP). Originally posted on Yessika Hoyos Morales 31 May 2022 Human rights lawyer Yessika Hoyos Morales has suffered serious threats against her and a break-in in the last week. The threats received refer to her...
Originally posted on https://ishr.ch/latest-updates/in-first-such-case-the-inter-american-court-to-decide-on-state-persecution-and-surveillance-against-human-rights-defenders/ By International Service for Human Rights This week sees closing arguments presented in a case that offers a historic...
June 13, 2022 As an articulation of organizations defending human rights in Cauca, we reject the actions of abuse committed by the security forces against the community of the village of La Viuda, municipality of Cajibío, on June 12, 2022, where the integrity and lives of civilians, including...
The three main human rights platforms that bring together more than 500 social organizations from all over the country present a balance of the four years of the government of President Iván Duque Márquez from a human rights perspective. Bogotá, June 14, 2022. “The extermination of social...
The content of this column does not compromise the institutional position of Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo. “As soon as someone understands that obeying unjust laws is contrary to the dignity of being human, no tyranny can dominate him”. Mahatma Gandhi (1). Much has been...
In a decision dated June 6, 2022, the Review Section -SR- of the JEP Court rejected the petition for review filed by the defense of retired General Jesús Armando Arias Cabrales, convicted in the ordinary jurisdiction for forced disappearance in the context of the “Retaking” of the...
Photo: El Universal de Cartagena On June 7, 2022, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) began the study of precautionary measures MC MC-439-22, requested by the José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers Collective (Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo, -Cajar) in favor of the political...
Originally published in Spanish: Confidencial.com The Deputy Attorney General of the Nation in charge, Silvano Gómez Strauch, on May 10, 2022, provisionally suspended for three months the Mayor of Medellín Daniel Quintero Calle, for alleged and reiterated intervention in political activities and...
Oral tradition tells that when Columbus arrived in Aztec territory, the territory of the children of the sun, he was trapped in the greed for the gold and to appropriate it he appealed to a deception, because as Europe had already unveiled the mystery of the trajectory of the celestial bodies, he...
The Integral System for Peace, in accordance with its mandate to guarantee the rights of the victims of the armed conflict conferred by Legislative Act 01 of 2017, rejects and expresses its deep concern over the attacks and intimidation of which the Nydia Erika Bautista Foundation, an organization...
The Administrative Disputes Chamber, Fifth Section, of the Council of State, with a decision of June 2, 2022, admitted the lawsuit that we filed together with victims of paramilitary State crimes and journalists of La Nueva Prensa, against the election of Jorge Rodrigo Tovar Vélez, son of Rodrigo...