June 6, 2022 Federations, organizations, unions and Afro, environmental, social, trade union, youth, peasant, fishermen and women’s collectives articulated in the Environmental Roundtable of Puerto Wilches, with the accompaniment of the Colombia Free of Fracking Alliance, today we are again...
June 2, 2022 We regret the recent ruling of the Administrative Court of Santander that revokes the decision that protected the right to prior consultation of the Afro-Colombian Corporation of Puerto Wilches – Afrowilches and suspended the fracking pilots. As demonstrated in the process,...
PUBLIC DENUNCIATION AND URGENT ACTION POLITICAL PRISONER KEVIN DAVID GARCIA MOSQUERA WAS TAKEN FROM THE BUNKER OF THE PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE IN NEIVA AND TRANSFERRED TO AN UNKNOWN LOCATION. June 3, 2022 The “José Alvear Restrepo” Laywers Collective Corporation -CAJAR-,...
The Fund for Emergency Aid and Organizational Strengthening in Protection and Self-Protection – FFP -, an articulation of which the Center for Psychosocial Attention – CAPS -, Humanidad Vigente Corporación Jurídica, Asociación Cristiana Menonita para Justicia, Peace and Nonviolent...
Bogotá, June 3, 2022 The Coordination Colombia Europe United States, CCEEU, denounces to public opinion, state authorities and the international community the systematic acts of aggression and harassment that have occurred in the last 6 months against members and organizations that are part of...
El Cerrejon in Colombia is one of the biggest open-cast coal mines in the world: image taken from dw.com. Originally published in Dw.com Berlin wants to reduce its reliance on Russian coal by importing more from the biggest open-cast coal mine in Latin America. Its poor environmental and human...
On the morning of Thursday, May 26, 2022, Yessika Hoyos Morales, human rights lawyer and member of Cajar, received a text message on her cell phone with the following threatening message, which alludes to her work as representative of Mr. Alfonso Mora León, father of Jenner Alfonso Mora, victim of...
San José, Costa Rica. May 13, 2022. The Public Hearing of the case “Integrantes del Cajar Vs. Colombia”, which evaluated the harassment and persecution of the members of the José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective for more than 30 years, was concluded. This is the first time...
On April 29, 2022, the Human Rights Prosecutor’s Office issued an indictment against Jorge Eliecer Rojas Flórez, former mayor of the municipality of Pelaya Cesar, for being the perpetrator of the aggravated homicide of peasants Luis José Lemus Sánchez, Otoniel Cañizares Jacome and Segundo...
27 military personnel were charged for their responsibility in these events and identified the murder of persons identified as guerrillas, as well as social extermination practices. On May 17, the Observatorio Surcolombiano de Derechos Humanos -Obsurdh- and the José Alvear Restrepo Lawyer...
16Originally published in Spanish in : Confidencialcolonbia.com In a public hearing before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, held in San José, Costa Rica on May 12 and 13, 2022, the team of the “José Alvear Restrepo” Lawyers’ Collective Corporation -CAJAR-, presented the acts...
The report presented by ten member organizations of the Strategic Litigation Area (Espacio de Litigio Estratégico) focuses on the period 2006 – 2008. *This report is intended to contribute to the truth and the fight against impunity in this case of serious human rights violations. This...